Excerpt from English as We Speak It in Ireland This book deals with the Dialect of the English Language that is spoken in Ireland. As the Life of a people - according to our motto - is pictured in their speech, our picture ought to be a good one, for two languages were concerned in it - Irish and English. The part played by each will be found specially set forth in Chapters IV and VII; and in farther detail throughout the whole book. The articles and pamphlets that have already appeared on this interesting subject - which are described below - are all short. Some are full of keen observation; but very many are mere lists of dialectical words with their meanings. Here for the first time - in this little volume of mine our anglo-irish Dialect is subjected to detailed analysis and systematic classification. I have been collecting materials for this book for more than twenty years; not indeed by way of constant work, but off and on as detailed below. The sources from which these materials were directly derived are mainly the following. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.