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From Ulster to America - Scotch - Irish Heritage of American English (Paperback)
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From Ulster to America - Scotch - Irish Heritage of American English (Paperback)
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Loot Price R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
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Over the last 350 years, Ireland has sent a constant stream of
emigrants to North America. Estimates range from 6 to 10 million.
Each emigrant spoke English, Irish, or Ulster Scots. Many indeed
used two of these tongues. One of the most formative chapters in
this fascinating story is the often-overlooked arrival of perhaps
200,000 people from Ulster in the colonial era, specifically in the
sixty years before the American Revolution. This book recounts the
lasting impact they made on the development of the, English
language of the United States from the 18th century to the present
day. It documents nearly 400 terms and meanings, each with
quotations from both sides of the Atlantic, that were contributed
to American English by these 18th-century settlers from Ulster.
Drawing on letters they sent back to their homeland and on other
archival documents associated with their settlement, including
local fiction and poetry, it shows that Ulster emigrants and their
children, who settled mainly in the American interior, gave as much
to regional American English as any other group from the Old World.
Its pages contain many pleasant surprises: readers will find terms
both instantly recognisable and unfamiliar. The numerous quotations
not only bring alive the speech of earlier days on both sides of
the Atlantic but also extend our understanding of the culture,
mannerisms and life of those pioneering times and, through the
spoken and written word, poignantly link the past with the present.
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