Your accent

Fat Christy

Do you have a strong accent? Does it change or has it changed in recent years? I'm from Longford and I used to get a horrid slagging over my accent when I went to the gaeltacht as a teenager.

I moved to Dublin for college when I was 17 and have been here ever since.
My accent seems to have become quite flat and not as Longford as it used to be. The real Longford side only rares it's head when I get angry or when I've been down home for the weekend. The people in work often comment on it, saying when I'm all cool and collected I sound like someone off RTE but every now and again the Longfordian in me slips out. :pac:

It saddens me that I'm losing my culchie accent. I still get slagged for elongating my vowels e.g. raaaaaaaaging and puuuuuuuurrrree thick. :pac: In general when I meet new people and ask them to guess where I'm from, they always say somewhere in the midlands so that makes me happy.

So AHers for any of ye that have moved, has your accent changed much, if at all? Do you have a strong accent, do people ever comment on it?

4zn76tysfajdxp

I haven't lived in Ireland for a few years and my accent hasn't really changed but it wasn't that strong to begin with.

Fat Christy

Mine hasn't changed, just became a little bit weaker. Not as culchie.

Penny Tration

Used to be extremely posh, sounded like a d4, thanks to elocution lessons and not living anywhere for more than a few years until I was 12.

Live in Coolock now, have since I was twelve, bar some stints in Louth, Carlow, Wicklow and Limerick.

I don't really have a discernible accent anymore. I speak fairly well, no 'northside' accent but no d4 anymore, thankfully.

sammyjo90

I developed this fake Irish accent when I moved over so people would understand me.
My accent only comes back when I'm with my family and if I have friends there when this happens the slagging is endless! My family still have it and I wish I did too

Madden Wooden Network

Madden Wooden Network wrote: »

I haven't lived in Ireland for a few years and my accent hasn't really changed but it wasn't that strong to begin with.

Fat Christy wrote: »

Mine hasn't changed, just became a little bit weaker. Not as culchie.

God, there's nothing worse turf-munching bumpkins describing their garbled incoherent mumblings as a 'neutral' or 'soft' accent when they spend time away from the bog.

I'd say the both of you spend most of your conversations repeating yourself because the person you're muttering at hasn't a clue what you're on about.

Renegade Mechanic

I have a fair hard Tipp accent myself

Madden Wooden Network wrote: »

I haven't lived in Ireland for a few years and my accent hasn't really changed but it wasn't that strong to begin with.

I'd say it's ear rape tbh.

Peregrine

I don't even know what accent I have tbh. I do come out with some really North Dublin phrases every now and again but I don't think I speak in a North Dublin accent all the time.

strobe

"Anto! Anto! Have ye seen Jacinta round man!? Ye have ye bollix! Yeeeaahh roiyyy! Wadaya fookin taaawlking bout? Ye have."

That's what it sounds like when I walk into a bank and say "I'd like to make a deposit please".

anncoates

Fat Christy wrote: »

Do you have a strong accent? Does it change or has it changed in recent years? I'm from Longford and I used to get a horrid slagging over my accent when I went to the gaeltacht as a teenager.

Nobody in the entire history of Longford ever used the word, 'Horrid' .

TPD

I lived the first half of my life in London and the second half in Donegal so my accent is appropriately disgusting

SEPT 23 1989

I have a middle of the road Dublin accent which sounds posh to the poor and poor to the rich

Fat Christy

Jenny Thalia wrote: »

Used to be extremely posh, sounded like a d4, thanks to elocution lessons and not living anywhere for more than a few years until I was 12.

Live in Coolock now, have since I was twelve, bar some stints in Louth, Carlow, Wicklow and Limerick.

I don't really have a discernible accent anymore. I speak fairly well, no 'northside' accent but no d4 anymore, thankfully.

Oh god, can't bear the D4 accent atal. I think there's a difference between being well spoken and having a D4 accent. Just to clarify, I sound like an RTE newsreader NOT a D4. :pac: That's only when I'm on the phone or in meetings or need to be all professional. Otherwise, it's fairly well spoken with a side serving of Longford and a gazillion curse words. I'm an awful fcuker for cursing.

Deleted User wrote: »

God, there's nothing worse turf-munching bumpkins describing their garbled incoherent mumblings as a 'neutral' or 'soft' accent when they spend time away from the bog.

I'd say the both of you spend most of your conversations repeating yourself because the person you're muttering at hasn't a clue what you're on about.

Could be worse, could sound like a D4....;)

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

I have a fair hard Tipp accent myself

Hawt. I love strong accents, no idea why. A heavy Cork accent. *swoon* I love pure bogger accents tbh.

Nim wrote: »

I don't even know what accent I have tbh. I do come out with some really North Dublin phrases every now and again but I don't think I speak in a North Dublin accent all the time.

You don't sound like you're from North Dublin in fairness. You have an ever so slight tinge but that's about it.

strobe wrote: »

"Anto! Anto! Have ye seen Jacinta round man!? Ye have ye bollix! Yeeeaahh roiyyy! Wadaya fookin taaawlking bout? Ye have."

That's what it sounds like when I walk into a bank and say "I'd like to make a deposit please".

:pac: Scarleh for ya.

Fat Christy

anncoates wrote: »

Nobody in the entire history of Longford ever used the word, 'Horrid' .

I must have picked that one up here so....:(

Dog of Tears

Accents are what other people have.

ablelocks

anncoates wrote: »

Nobody in the entire history of Longford ever used the word, 'Horrid' .

was thinking the same. there's a cavan or a louth somewhere back the line - he might deny it, but it's there, lingering from generation to generation and then one day he posts on the internet and the family is rooint.

Tar.Aldarion

Fairly generic Irish accent, nobody knows which part I'm from. When I go home my accent changes a bit while I'm there

Fat Christy

ablelocks wrote: »

was thinking the same. there's a cavan or a louth somewhere back the line - he might deny it, but it's there, lingering from generation to generation and then one day he posts on the internet and the family is rooint.

Is 'horrid' from cavan/louth, that direction? If so that would make sense, I went to secondary school on the Longford/Cavan/Leitrim border.

4zn76tysfajdxp

Renegade Mechanic wrote: »

I'd say it's ear rape tbh.

That's the second time today you've tried to have a go at me, unprovoked. For someone who claims not to hold unnecessary grudges, you're doing a terrible job at it. :rolleyes:

rainbowdrop

I was born in Ireland, brought up in the north of England and moved back here 17 years ago, when I was 19. I'be spent nearly the same length of time in both countries.

I live in Co Limerick now, and my accent is all over the place, a complete hybrid of northern UK/Ireland. I work in a call centre, and constantly get asked by customers where I'm from, as they can't place my accent. A lot of them seem to think I have a Dub accent for some reason, which confuses me as I'be never lived anywhere NEAR Dublin.

Some of the customers that call in have the maddest accents! Had people with half Polish/half Donegal or half Chinese/half Cork accents calling in. I love listening to different accents

Mesrine65

Dublin accent.

Wang King

Went from West London to culchie Kerry

Fat Christy

Mesrine65 wrote: »

Dublin accent.

But which side?! Westside is where it's at. :cool:

bee06

I've been told I don't have much of an accent. I grew up close enough to the city to not have a country accent but in the country so don't have a city accent either. Plus I work with a lot of foreigners and I want them to understand me.

Mesrine65

Fat Christy wrote: »

But which side?! Westside is where it's at. :cool:

Originally north inner city Dublin, now Tallafornia

harry Bailey esq

Fat Christy wrote: »

But which side?! Westside is where it's at. :cool:

I've a flat inner city accent,culchie women love it,everyone else looks at me with a hint of suspicion

Cupcake_Crisis

I've a bizarre accent. From Dublin, lived most of life in Dublin (bar spells in Belfast and Vancouver) but I'm asked on a weekly basis where I'm from because apparently I sound like a culchie...

Fat Christy

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

I've a bizarre accent. From Dublin, lived most of life in Dublin (bar spells in Belfast and Vancouver) but I'm asked on a weekly basis where I'm from because apparently I sound like a culchie...

Kinda a culchie/Westside Dublin mix. :pac: Still Dublin though. You have a nice accent.

supersean1999

Im really lucky all my friends ,family and neighbours can understand my accent, it makes life so much easier

Cupcake_Crisis

Fat Christy wrote: »

Kinda a culchie/Westside Dublin mix. :pac: Still Dublin though. You have a nice accent.

I like my accent!its a far sight nicer than some of the ah jayziz howeyiz's around my way!

Deleted User

Deleted User wrote: »

God, there's nothing worse turf-munching bumpkins describing their garbled incoherent mumblings as a 'neutral' or 'soft' accent when they spend time away from the bog.

I'd say the both of you spend most of your conversations repeating yourself because the person you're muttering at hasn't a clue what you're on about.

My new favorite phrase.:pac: I love you KotE.

I've a London accent with Irish influences, people generally like it and I do too.

Shrap

I've a bizarre accent too, I think. Foreigners have to ask where I'm from! Grew up in DunLaoghaire but have a posh sounding English mother and a inner city/Northside Dad. When I was in primary, I got an awful slagging for sounding English, so I remember at about aged 7, I made every attempt to sound like everyone else and so lost a lot of the English sounding pronunciation. Always used my Dad's phrasing anyway (which sounds gas with a slight English twang apparently), then I moved to the UK, then back to Dublin, then Co. Clare for the last 20 years. Now I sound like a weird cross-cultural culchie south-sider. I think....

The Peanut

The best of a South Tipp and a West Cork accent combine to make a beautiful symphony of hybrid bogger.

Renegade Mechanic

Madden Wooden Network wrote: »

That's the second time today you've tried to have a go at me, unprovoked.

I think the actual posts between us say not.. And if you're idea of a "grudge" is two posts, you've lead an extraordinarily sheltered life.

Anyway, I've always found accents curious, the entire country has more accents than counties. In Tipp alone, there are subtle differences between, say, Clonmel and Thurles. Its amazing. I was talking to an American ages ago who just couldn't believe the sheer diversity across such a small country. Actually as he said, There are likey no other countries with that kind of variety

Shrap

The Peanut wrote: »

The best of a South Tipp and a West Cork accent combine to make a beautiful symphony of hybrid bogger.

I can imagine that. Probably sounds great!

Fat Christy

The Peanut wrote: »

The best of a South Tipp and a West Cork accent combine to make a beautiful symphony of hybrid bogger.

West Cork? *swoon*

The Peanut

Shrap wrote: »

I can imagine that. Probably sounds great!

Like listening to a bogger Barry White.

tayto lover

Love the Cavan accent i.e. Michael Harding who is very easy to listen to.
Like the N. Louth accent too.

Cupcake_Crisis

The Kerry and Donegal accents are my favourites. Swoon!

strobe

Ireland is just fvcking weird. It is isn't it. I was in Australia before talking to a couple of German girls in a pub with a guy that was from Celbridge in Kildare. They asked him where he was from, he said Ireland. Then they asked me where I was from, said "yeah, Ireland too". Then they asked, how come we speak so different then. Couldn't believe it when I said we would have grown up about 15 miles apart. What's that sh1t about? I think maybe the UK is the same? Just guessing though. But outside of that, are there other countries where a ten minute drive means people have noticeably different accents? Down to the whole history of small tribes or something? Not a clue. Is it the same in other countries? Is it not? Why is it like that here? And many other questions.

blastman

tayto lover wrote: »

Like the N. Louth accent too.

The "M'on the towwwnn" accent? Are you deaf?

tomwaterford

Blaa Waterford City accent crossed with a pure bogger accent

Galwayguy35

I've a Galway bogger accent, not to be confused with the posh accent many city dwelling Galwegians seem to have.

The Peanut

tomwaterford wrote: »

Blaa Waterford City accent crossed with a pure bogger accent

Kilmacthomas? Lemybrien?

tayto lover

blastman wrote: »

The "M'on the towwwnn" accent? Are you deaf?

That's a townie accent.
We are far more refined

tomwaterford

The Peanut wrote: »

Kilmacthomas? Lemybrien?

Worse

tomwaterford

tayto lover wrote: »

That's a townie accent.
We are far more refined

Mosie henerbry is frightenly close

scudzilla

HATE my accent, born in North Wales, lived there all my life until I moved here 9yrs ago yet still people ask if I'm English :mad:

guttenberg

scudzilla wrote: »

HATE my accent, born in North Wales, lived there all my life until I moved here 9yrs ago yet still people ask if I'm English :mad:

Do you get asked often about the sheep?:D

The Peanut

tomwaterford wrote: »

Worse

Intrigued now. West Waterford is a total lottery so maybe closer to the city. Rathgormack? Bunmahon?

tomwaterford

The Peanut wrote: »

Intrigued now. West Waterford is a total lottery so maybe closer to the city. Rathgormack? Bunmahon?

Il not say :P

Just that my village/area have a distinctive sub accent of its own