"Sorrow Penny Yee Payed for My Drink" Taboo, Euphemism, and a Phantom Substrate. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 43 /

"Sorrow Penny Yee Payed for My Drink" [electronic resource] : Taboo, Euphemism, and a Phantom Substrate. CLCS Occasional Paper No. 43 / Terence Odlin.

Possible origins for the use of "sorrow" as a negation in Hiberno-English are considered. Much of the evidence examined here comes from English literature. It is concluded that the uses of "sorrow" as negator and as euphemism probably reflect Celtic substrate influence. Structura...

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Main Author: Odlin, Terence
Corporate Author: Trinity Coll., Dublin (Ireland). Centre for Language and Communication Studies
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996.
Subjects:
Diachronic Linguistics.
English.
English Literature.
Foreign Countries.
Irish.
Language Patterns.
Language Role.
Language Usage.
Negative Forms (Language)
Scots Gaelic.
Uncommonly Taught Languages.

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