CONTENTS
Chapter | Page | |
I. | Sources of Anglo-Irish Dialect, | 1 |
II. | Affirming, Assenting, and Saluting, | 9 |
III. | Asserting by Negative of Opposite, | 16 |
IV. | Idioms Derived from the Irish Language, | 23 |
V. | The Devil and his 'Territory,' | 56 |
VI. | Swearing, | 66 |
VII. | Grammar and Pronunciation, | 74 |
VIII. | Proverbs, | 105 |
IX. | Exaggeration and Redundancy, | 120 |
X. | Comparisons, | 136 |
XI. | The Memory of History and of Old Customs, | 143 |
XII. | A Variety of Phrases, | 185 |
XIII. | Vocabulary and Index, | 209 |
Alphabetical List of Persons who sent Collections | ||
of Dialectical Words and Phrases, | 353 |