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Difference between accent, dialect, lilt and brogue

  • 19-07-2005 03:29PM
    #1
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭


    What's the difference here really? I've always thought you spoke with an accent or perhaps a dialect but then I read somewhere that to say someone "spoke English with a brogue" was a nasty comment, used mostly by the English to insult the Irish. Today people think they are referring to the Irish lilt when they use the term "brogue". ??


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  • #2
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,195 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Dialects have different words and phrases, sometimes even grammatical variations. You can see a difference when they're written down.

    An accent is merely the way you pronounce words.

    A brogue is a strong accent, almost always used to describe a strong Irish accent.

    A lilt is the sing-song intonation typical of accents from the South West of Ireland, North Wales, Donegal, Norway...


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,060 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Thanks pickarooney, that did indeed explain it


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