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Accents of Ireland

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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Think 'chav' but with mullets.

    I had a google. Bejaysus.


  • #33
    the purple tin
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Think 'chav' but with mullets.
    I thought that was a 'hoon'.


    Moate accent is the absolute pits.
    The best accents are from people that have lived in different parts of the country, they can have a nice pic n mix thing going on.


  • #34
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,266 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    the purple tin wrote: »
    I thought that was a 'hoon'.


    Moate accent is the absolute pits.
    The best accents are from people that have lived in different parts of the country, they can have a nice pic n mix thing going on.

    Hoon is their version of boy racer.


  • #35
    troyzer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,170 ✭✭✭troyzer


    the purple tin wrote: »
    I thought that was a 'hoon'.


    Moate accent is the absolute pits.
    The best accents are from people that have lived in different parts of the country, they can have a nice pic n mix thing going on.

    A hoon is a boy racer. Usually, but not always, also a bogan.


  • #36
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    troyzer wrote: »
    German accents are really easy to pick out. It wasn't a country until 1870 and there are notable differences between high and low German. A Bavarian/Austrian accent is very different to a Mecklenburg accent.

    Bavarian German is really, really weird.
    I remember on a different messageboard, an Irish person living Germany for years mentioned a few times that northern Germans looked down on Bavarians with their accent being one of the reasons (and their Catholicism). He himself equated the Bavarian accent being the German version on the Cork accent. :D
    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    He told me recently he had met a man who had a very obvious Cork accent . I met him a few weeks later and he was from South Wales !
    I've heard a theory that the Welsh accent influenced the Cork accent centuries ago, when traders from Wales would sail along the south coast as they went about their business.


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  • #37
    PowerToWait
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »


    I've heard a theory that the Welsh accent influenced the Cork accent centuries ago, when traders from Wales would sail along the south coast as they went about their business.

    Also through mining.


  • #38
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,452 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    I remember on a different messageboard, an Irish person living Germany for years mentioned a few times that northern Germans looked down on Bavarians with their accent being one of the reasons (and their Catholicism). He himself equated the Bavarian accent being the German version on the Cork accent. :D


    I've heard a theory that the Welsh accent influenced the Cork accent centuries ago, when traders from Wales would sail along the south coast as they went about their business.

    Saw a documentary on Newfoundland a while ago . I presumed the first few people who spoke were Irish . Then I realised they all spoke with a Killkenny / Waterford accent . ! They were pure Newfies born and bred as were the generations before them


  • #39
    Noveight
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    Love the Derry accent, could listen to it all day.

    Midlands or de Dubs would be towards the end of the list.


  • #40
    Mint Sauce
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    South Donegal, parts for Fermanagh and Tyrone.

    <drools>


  • #41
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,422 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Saw a documentary on Newfoundland a while ago . I presumed the first few people who spoke were Irish . Then I realised they all spoke with a Killkenny / Waterford accent . ! They were pure Newfies born and bred as were the generations before them
    You should look at the Canadian programme Republic Of Doyle set in St. John's, Newfoundland. Some of the characters have Irish-sounding accents (I would have said Wexford/Waterford), and Donegal actor Sean McGinley played one of the main characters..


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  • #42
    clintondaly
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    You could try here

    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=65513343

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    https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=105309304


  • #43
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,442 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    fergiesfolly wrote: »
    I was just wondering about how foreigners hear our accents. I couldn't tell the difference between one Italian accent and another. Or French, German, Chinese etc. But I'm sure there must be as much variation as there is here. But I can discern one British or American accent from another, I presume because I can understand the language.When non English speakers listen to us speak, is it just one generic accent. Do I sound like a Corkman or a Belfast man to a German?

    You know the way someone from france or italy or where ever can sound sexy speaking english, I've often wondered if we sound sexy speaking any other languages. Do french girls hear a guy from cork speaking french and think it's funny or sexy?


  • #44
    Donald Trump
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    You should look at the Canadian programme Republic Of Doyle set in St. John's, Newfoundland. Some of the characters have Irish-sounding accents (I would have said Wexford/Waterford), and Donegal actor Sean McGinley played one of the main characters..




    You should look at the film Alexandar with Colin Farrell. Some of the characters have strong Dublin accents


  • #45
    nthclare
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    The Shannon Town accent is quite refined, a mixture of everything due to people from all over settling down there from the 70's onwards.

    I'd say they have a mid atlantic without the American influence...


  • #46
    Dakota Dan
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    A soft Northern accent, like Tyrone (where my mum harks from) or Fermanagh is very pleasant.

    Hard urban accents like working class Dub, North Cork City, East or West Belfast or Limerick are unpleasant and too harsh.

    Neutral educated accents - often hard to place and often a result of elocution - are quite easy on the ear. Galway and and Mayo are often soft and pleasant.

    Louth is weird - lilt of Northern with rural north Leinster dominant.

    Wicklow is often like a soft Dub accent ..."Wickla"

    For such a tiny country Ireland has an amazing array of different accents. The commuter belt effect means Dublin accent is infiltrating Kildare, Meath and further afield.

    Nouveau riche D4/Southside with its pseudo American inflections is risible and crass - all the "mom" crap. But an old school D4 accent is rather easy on the ear. There is a big distinction between the two.

    Neutral educated? Crap false accents is what I call them and there's zero education in it as they murder a lot of words.


  • #47
    Gwynplaine
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    Any Nordie accent. Just makes my ear drums hurt.
    Those Healy Rae Gombeen fellas, it's like acid being poured into my ears.


  • #48
    Dakota Dan
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    I suppose everyone on here think they have a neutral accent that can be understood the world over? Like a Dub I met one time with a thick Dub accent, he thought that because he was from Dublin that everyone understood him.


  • #49
    py2006
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee_N3g4ORLk


  • #50
    the purple tin
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    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Hoon is their version of boy racer.
    Did it always mean that? The term was used in the orignal Mad Max, I didn't know boy racers were a thing back then.


  • #51
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Donald Trump wrote: »
    You should look at the film Alexandar with Colin Farrell. Some of the characters have strong Dublin accents

    Yeh. It’s true. The actors were from Dublin though. So that explains that.


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  • #52
    Franz Von Peppercorn
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    Dakota Dan wrote: »
    Neutral educated? Crap false accents is what I call them and there's zero education in it as they murder a lot of words.

    What accent are you thinking of?


  • #53
    theyoungchap
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-xMTkslD8

    Best Irish accent ever.


  • #54
    shakeitoff
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    I know a French girl and she loves the inner city Dublin accent, sounds exotic to her

    The way D4's say like isnt American, it's an Irish thing, we say it for emphasis, you know what I mean like.

    Canadians/Americans/other Europeans generally just think you're Australian, especially if you don't look stereotypically Irish


  • #55
    optogirl
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    When working in New Zealand, two grown women I worked with were ASTONISHED to be told that they too had an accent.' Kiwi's don't have accents!'


  • #56
    py2006
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    shakeitoff wrote: »
    I know a French girl and she loves the inner city Dublin accent, sounds exotic to her

    The way D4's say like isnt American, it's an Irish thing, we say it for emphasis, you know what I mean like.

    Canadians/Americans/other Europeans generally just think you're Australian, especially if you don't look stereotypically Irish

    It is very much American.
    "Like, I totally want to get another drink now".
    "I was, like, you know when you don't feel like a latte right now".


  • #57
    jimmytwotimes 2013
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    Ian Wright's Irish accent isn't up to much.


  • #58
    the purple tin
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    py2006 wrote: »
    It is very much American.
    "Like, I totally want to get another drink now".
    "I was, like, you know when you don't feel like a latte right now".
    The wannabe yanks use it at or near tha start of a sentence. The traditonal use of it in this country is at the end of a sentence. 'are you heading into town for a few pints like?'
    Similar to the term 'likesay' in Edinburgh.


  • #59
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    Literally 12 year old girls are only people who talk like that. No private school girl I know uses like in that way. Posh wannabe south dublin accents don't sound like an american accent at all. No American would hear that accent and think it sounded anything but Irish


  • #60
    py2006
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,845 ✭✭✭py2006


    Ah you often here people here starting off a sentence with, "I was, like,..."


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  • #61
    shakeitoff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭shakeitoff


    py2006 wrote: »
    Ah you often here people here starting off a sentence with, "I was, like,..."

    Yeah but it's not like the Americans, it's an Irish way of saying like. My dad from inner city dublin says it like that.


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