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Excerpt from Studies in Archaism in Aulus Gellius
Ireland, 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 its impress, not only on the oral speech, but on literature. For example, the numerous ballads of Ireland13 written even within the last century furnish a rich field for the student of the early Gaelic lan guage and literature.
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