English as we speak it in Ireland

By Patrick Weston Joyce

Chapter

  • Preface
  • I. Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect
  • II. Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting
  • III. Asserting by Negative of Opposite
  • IV. Idioms Derived from the Irish Language
  • V. The Devil and his 'Territory
  • VI. Swearing
  • VII. Grammar and Pronunciation
  • VIII. Proverbs
  • IX. Exaggeration and Redundancy
  • X. Comparisons
  • XI. The Memory of History and of Old Customs
  • XII. A Variety of Phrases
  • XIII. Vocabulary and Index
  • Alphabetical List of Persons who sent Collections of Dialectical Words and Phrases
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