In "Shakespeare and the Ulster Dialect," which was first published
in the "Northern Whig" newspaper, Belfast, 22nd April, 1916, Sir
John Byers identifies Elizabethan words and phrases that came to
the North of Ireland with the English planters in the seventeenth
century and which were still in everyday use there at the beginning
of the twentieth century. John Byers (1853-1920) was an eminent
medical professional who had a passion for the study of Ulster
language and folklore and had previously published "Sayings,
Proverbs and Humour of Ulster" in 1904. From the introductory
section of "Shakespeare and the Ulster Dialect" "Until the end of
the eighteenth century there was a tradition in Ulster that pure
English was spoken in Lisburn, and it was computed less than half a
century ago-1878-that, while at that date a glossary of more than
2,000 words would be required to enable a modern Englishman to read
his Shakespeare, probably about 200 words (one in ten) or less,
would be all that an intelligent North of Ireland person would need
to understand the works of the greatest of poets and dramatists."
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