English As We Speak It in Ireland

English As We Speak It in Ireland

Patrick Weston Joyce, irish historian, writer and music collector (1827-1914)


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Table of Contents

- About This Book

- Preface

- Sources Of Anglo Irish Dialect

- Affirming, Assenting, And Saluting

- Assertion By Negative Of Opposite

- Idioms Derived From The Irish Language

- The Devil And His Territory

- Swearing

- Grammar And Pronunciation

- Proverbs

- Exaggeration And Redundancy

- Comparisons

- The Memory Of History And Of Old Customs

- A Variety Of Phrases

- Vocabulary And Index

- Footnotes