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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BROGUE . (I) A rough

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SHOE (a word appearing in the Teutonic languages in various forms, as Ger. Schuh, Swed. and Dan. sko, sometimes supposed to come from an unknown root ska or sku, cover)

shoe of raw

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LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather (from the Gael . brog, a shoe) worn in the wilder parts of

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Ireland and the Scottish

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HIGHLANDS, THE

Highlands . (2) A dialectical

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ACCENT

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PRONUNCIATION (Lat. pronuntiatio, from pronuntiare, proclaim, announce, pronounce)

pronunciation (of uncertain origin), especially used of the Irish accent in speaking

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ENGLISH

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