TY - BOOK AU - MacNeil,Robert TI - The loaded weapon PY - 1986/// CY - Sydney, NSW. PB - BBC Education & Training KW - English language KW - Ireland KW - History KW - Foreign elements KW - Irish N1 - Copy available in DVD format N2 - Investigates the Irish influence on both the English and American dialects. Shows that in acquiring English as a second language, the Irish invested the tongue with certain seventeenth-century Irish characteristics ER -