English as we speak it in Ireland

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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