Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1917 — Irish English. [ARTICLE]

Irish English.

Many persons seem to to hear, rather, something to at in the soft Irish brogue. As a matter of fact, most of the words of the Irish “dialect” are not Irish at all, but the purest of English—English a trifle antiquated, it is true, but nevertheless the real thing. The ears of Milton, Dryden, Spencer and Chaucer would not have been surprised to an Irishman speak of “a rough say” or “a clane shirt.” At the court of good Queen Bess the cultured Englishman, carefully garnished his cbnversatidm with “goolde” rings and brave “swoordes” and bored his friends with accounts of the smart sayings of the “childre” at “boom.” This was the English originally imported into Ireland by the cultured Irish, and the Irish have found it good enough to preserve. —Chicago. Tribune.