American accent in waterford?

dermo909

Whats the deal with the american accent out around the dunmore rd? It seems every kid and teenager has an american accent. Its kinda weird I think.
What u all think? Its kinda a bit freaky!

seanybiker

They're the WD4'S

STIG83

Cant say i ever noticed TBH.

seanybiker

STIG83 wrote: »

Cant say i ever noticed TBH.

Ya whatever "snaps fingers " douchebag.

Hahaha

Dan133269

dermo909 wrote: »

Whats the deal with the american accent out around the dunmore rd? It seems every kid and teenager has an american accent. Its kinda weird I think.
What u all think? Its kinda a bit freaky!

nothing new there. I always take the piss out of my friends from dunmore road for being from there. Then again, the joke is not on them, they live in the nice part of town.

honeybadger

needs more stones in the end of a bucket haha

CrackisWhack

dermo909 wrote: »

Whats the deal with the american accent out around the dunmore rd? It seems every kid and teenager has an american accent. Its kinda weird I think.
What u all think? Its kinda a bit freaky!

Whats with the American lingo? its kinda annoying!

seanybiker

CrackisWhack wrote: »

Whats with the American lingo? its kinda annoying!

Fo shizzle

dayshah

Mid-Atlantic accent is the term for this accent.

Anyway, who cares. We already speak the Englishman's language, why not use the American's accent?

deisemum

Can't say I've noticed it but it's possibly down to watching too much tv from a young age.

Cabaal

To be honest its not uncommon to come across young kids and teenagers all around Ireland with American type accents, I'd have to agree with deisemum its likely down to watching far too much tv

old gregg

kids on the Dunmore road are just getting ready for 50 cent. It's unfortunate that the rest of the town is not getting into the spirit of the festival and speaking with an American accent, yo.

decies

Yes 15 years of watching ' Friends' would do this.

jimbojazz

Oh my Gaaaawd, are you for real, I mean like, I live near that precinct and I can't say I've noticed it, that's Awwwwwwwwsome!

Monfoolio

Is it wrong that I peed a little when I read these posts!! Funny!:D

mike65

Is this thread suggesting those in Wards 1 and 3 are not watching Disney and Nick 24 hours a day?

Max Powers

oh my gaaad, you mean like there are kids to twenty-somethings walking around like because, they love the girls on sex and the cidy or the hills. Its happeneing everywhere in fairness, just listen to some of the idiots on programs like expose where its all celebrities, drinking bottled whader and going to a pardy.

kkdela6

some of the dunmore road think they're in Skins, some of them think they're in The O.C, the rest are trying to get on Crimewatch

TheHumanOnion

Two words: Jersey Shore

giles lynchwood

dayshah wrote: »

Mid-Atlantic accent is the term for this accent.

Anyway, who cares. We already speak the Englishman's language, why not use the American's accent?

Not being fussy just trying to maintain the high stanard of ¨boards¨
we actually speak ¨the Queens english¨:)

Heathen

I blame the Jed-tards

Speak Now

So they don't say boy or girl at the end of every sentence on this Dunmore road place?

BazBox

kkdela6 wrote: »

some of the dunmore road think they're in Skins, some of them think they're in The O.C, the rest are trying to get on Crimewatch

and you know this how? im assuming you've spoken to every single person on the dunmore road? Grew up in an estate there and I can honestly say I have never come across anyone who had an American accent!

BlaasForRafa

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

So they don't say boy or girl at the end of every sentence on this Dunmore road place?

No, they say "Roight" and "Loike" at the end of every sentance. Seems to be centred mainly around Newtown and De La Salle, thank god the Top of the Town is still speaking proper Waterfordese.

deisemum

BazBox wrote: »

and you know this how? im assuming you've spoken to every single person on the dunmore road? Grew up in an estate there and I can honestly say I have never come across anyone who had an American accent!

I haven't heard an american accent from anyone living on the Dunmore Road apart from on an American visiting.

Speak Now

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

No, they say "Roight" and "Loike" at the end of every sentance. Seems to be centred mainly around Newtown and De La Salle, thank god the Top of the Town is still speaking proper Waterfordese.

Oh Roight boy

SillyMcCarthy

Bloody rampant in the City!
They are almost condescending to you in
the manner in which they speak to you!

A neighbour of mine has developed the 'twang'
& her children also! It's a step on the social ladder
in their poor minds!

dayshah

SillyMcCarthy wrote: »

Bloody rampant in the City!
They are almost condescending to you in
the manner in which they speak to you!

A neighbour of mine has developed the 'twang'
& her children also! It's a step on the social ladder
in their poor minds!

Nothin' a good batin' won't fix.

Give him ten of the best and five of the finest.

cocoshovel

Was thinking the same. Turns out I'm living in Waterford, Michigan. Who would of known?!

dazftw

We call lads from Tramore Tramericans... I don't know why tbh

longshanks

Ha ha Tramericans, thats good that

kkdela6

BazBox wrote: »

and you know this how? im assuming you've spoken to every single person on the dunmore road? Grew up in an estate there and I can honestly say I have never come across anyone who had an American accent!

did you ever leave your house?

seanybiker

Monfoolio wrote: »

Is it wrong that I peed a little when I read these posts!! Funny!:D

Not at all. Swap places with the missus and leave her the damp patch. Its all good

Speak Now

dazftw wrote: »

We call lads from Tramore Tramericans... I don't know why tbh

Heard the place is full of Wexicans in the summer.

Up2NoGood

There is a full on invasion of the Yanks going on in PC World

Heathen

deisemum wrote: »

I haven't heard an american accent from anyone living on the Dunmore Road apart from on an American visiting.

Id have to say the same.. Im a Dub living in Waterford for 11 years, I lived on the Dunmore road for about 5 of those years in a few different areas and top of the town for 6 years again in a few different areas of town, and have never heard the american accent...

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BazBox

kkdela6 wrote: »

did you ever leave your house?

not much, the american weather was too much for me to handle...

jimbojazz

Heathen wrote: »

Id have to say the same.. Im a Dub living in Waterford for 11 years, I lived on the Dunmore road for about 5 of those years in a few different areas and top of the town for 6 years again in a few different areas of town, and have never heard the american accent...

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Shucks


American accents on the Dunmore Road.......another 3 minutes out the road and they sound like The Riordans

DaleB91

Yeah I've noticed down in Kings Channel its all Mommy and Daoddy! They think there living in California (the posh part you see on telly) or else they think there the next cast of Skins characters! Drives me up the wall the way they try look down on you and what not but its easy enough to bring em back to earth when you know what to say!

SirenX

it's all down to tv

MitchKoobski

I used to think I was hearing an american accent, but then they finished what they were saying with "....boi" so it was fine.

Nolanger

It should be Australian accents they should be practising considering they'll have to move there when they leave college!

dermo909

I suppose its mostly teenagers and such that have that accent.

There's one girl in particular which brought this topic to mind. I referred to her one day in conversation as the american girl only to be told that she was from woodstown.....

The accent exists for sure. Its amazing how in the space of a couple of miles we can go from a proper waterford accent to american.

jimbojazz

dermo909 wrote: »

I suppose its mostly teenagers and such that have that accent.

There's one girl in particular which brought this topic to mind. I referred to her one day in conversation as the american girl only to be told that she was from woodstown.....

The accent exists for sure. Its amazing how in the space of a couple of miles we can go from a proper waterford accent to american.

and as you continue on out the road you come to a total bogger accent - particularly under the bridge in Jack Meades front bar:D

ikeano29

Its simply called TV-talk

jmcc

I suppose we should be grateful that it isn't that nasty Dortspeak that the Deefers on RTE use. It is so bad sometimes that I have to turn on teletext subtitles.

There is a more subtle Amercianisation of accents in Waterford and it is the uptalk at the end of a sentence where the pitch rises slightly as if the speaker is asking a question. But that has been going on for years and is due to the dominance of US programming on television.

Regards...jmcc

Popquiz_hotshot

Yeats college comes to mind............rofl

And what makes it worse they have made Tawdy wave the American flag on the Tramore road road!!

Next thing we know he'l be out by Oscars!!!!!!!

deisemum

Popquiz_hotshot wrote: »

Yeats college comes to mind............rofl

And what makes it worse they have made Tawdy wave the American flag on the Tramore road road!!

Next thing we know he'l be out by Oscars!!!!!!!

He's almost there, I've seen him out by the hospital a lot recently unless I'm thinking of someone else.

Godsentme

deisemum wrote: »

He's almost there, I've seen him out by the hospital a lot recently unless I'm thinking of someone else.

Yeah. Tawdy is taking a Vacation:rolleyes:.