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3 days ago · Hiberno-English ( / haɪˈbɜːrnoʊ, hɪ -/ hy-BUR-noh, hih-; [3] [4] from Latin: Hibernia "Ireland") [a] or Irish English ( IrE ), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
May 1, 2024 · Irish Gaelic can be categorised broadly into three main dialects: Connacht, Munster, and Ulster, with Ulster’s pronunciation closely relating to that of Scottish Gaelic, particularly in Donegal. For example, in some parts of Ulster, “ao” is pronounced /eː/ as opposed to /iː/ in Munster.
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4 days ago · The first, dealing thematically with the ‘reconstruction’ of the Irish peerage in the early decades of the century, comprises chapters on the establishment of a ‘composite peerage’ by the early Stuarts and the emergence of a ‘service nobility’ over the century as a whole; the growth of a sense of royal service and honour, which ...
6 days ago · English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, [1] [2] allowing readers to connect the graphemes to sound and to meaning. [3] It includes English's norms of spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation . Like the orthography of most world languages, English orthography has a broad ...
5 days ago · ÉIGSE: A Journal of Irish Studies. The journal has been published by the University since 1939 with the aid of the Adam Boyd Simpson Bequest and is now funded by the NUI Publications Fund. Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research in the field of Irish language and literature. Many hitherto unpublished texts in prose and ...
Apr 19, 2024 · English language, a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family that is closely related to the Frisian, German, and Dutch languages. It originated in England and is the dominant language of the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. It has become the world’s lingua franca.
2 days ago · The Goidelic words were probably borrowed from a Brythonic language [ source ]. Some words for Brushes and Brooms in Celtic languages come from the same roots, as do the words scopa (broom) in Italian, escoba (broom) in Spanish, and shqopë (heather, heath, briar) in Albanian [ source ]. Old Irish (Goídelc) saball = barn.
