English as we speak it in Ireland
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English as we speak it in Ireland
editBy Patrick Weston Joyce
editChapter
edit- 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