Excerpt from Studies in Archaism in Aulus GelliusIreland, for example, has been under English domination for four centuries. Yet the language of Ireland to-day, though officially English, varies through countless gradations from pure English to Gaelic. Even in a country so small, so near England, and so easy of access, so often visited by residents of England, with so many of its own people visiting England, the native language still leaves it...
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