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‘I Intend to Try Some Other Part
of the Worald’: Evidence of Schwa-
Epenthesis in the Historical Letters
of Irish Emigrants
Persijn M. de Rijke
1 Introduction
In the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR)—a col-
lection of over 5000 texts, most of which are Irish emigrant letters—
many non-standard features can be found, including evidence of
epenthesis.
1
e spelling 〈worald〉 world in the title of this paper is an
example of how this feature may appear in the corpus, as is 〈henery〉
Henry in the following example:
(1) I went to Mr.
John Robeson Merchant who is Joined in Merchandise
with henery gore of greenback
(Patt McGowan, Saint John’s, New Brunswick to ‘‘Brother Roger,” 25
December 1847)
P.M. de Rijke (*)
e Norwegian Military Academy, Oslo, Norway