Irish Accents

Scarinae · 18-09-2005 11:56AM

I don't seem to have an accent. I used to work in a bar in Bray and customers used to actually have bets on where I was from. Nobody ever guessed Bray, or even Ireland - but various people guessed America, England, Wales, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, France, Spain, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, much to my confusion. And they never believed me when I said I'd lived in Bray all my life.
On a slightly different point, I've been accused of diluting my boyfriend's accent. He's from Kerry and didn't have a strong accent in the first place, but in the last two years since he started going out with me his accent has mostly disappeared even though he still lives there. It is stronger when he's talking to his family, but when he's up here visiting me you'd never guess he's from the country

lazylad · 19-09-2005 01:47AM

Repli wrote:

Wexford and NI accents are nothing alike!!! Wtf??

I never wexford had an accent.

Wexford town have very strong accent.Kinda northern. i used to go out with someone from wexford town and the accent is annoyin sometimes.

Most of wexford has a bland wexford town accent.

Enniscorthy has a mild wexford townie accent, Gorey a bit of dublin and wexford mixed. new ross a bit of wexford and just typical irish accent.

deisedevil · 19-09-2005 02:22AM

lazylad wrote:

I never wexford had an accent.
Wexford town have very strong accent.Kinda northern. i used to go out with someone from wexford town and the accent is annoyin sometimes.

Most of wexford has a bland wexford town accent.

Enniscorthy has a mild wexford townie accent, Gorey a bit of dublin and wexford mixed. new ross a bit of wexford and just typical irish accent.

Making sense is your not???? You are informing us that you never thought wexford had an accent yet you go into detail about the wexford accent? Not sure bout this typical irish accent you speak of, please do tell more,if not to enlighten us then for our amusement.

lazylad · 19-09-2005 02:24AM

deisedevil wrote:

Making sense is your not???? You are informing us that you never thought wexford had an accent yet you go into detail about the wexford accent? Not sure bout this typical irish accent you speak of, please do tell more,if not to enlighten us then for our amusement.

Actually I meant I never though I had a wexford accent. A difference. A typo.

deisedevil · 19-09-2005 02:28AM

lazylad wrote:

Actually I meant I never though I had a wexford accent. A difference. A typo.

Damn, i was hoping for a classic lazylad response.

Not very easy to pick out the wexford accent. How do ya mean a typical irish accent, not sure what ya mean by that?

lazylad · 19-09-2005 02:30AM

deisedevil wrote:

Damn, i was hoping for a classic lazylad response. Not very easy to pick out the wexford accent. How do ya mean a typical irish accent, not sure what ya mean by that?

I dunno, you know the flat accent. Kinda like kilkenny, laoise etc.

deisedevil · 19-09-2005 02:33AM

lazylad wrote:

I dunno, you know the flat accent. Kinda like kilkenny, laoise etc.

Still don't get ya really but it don't matter. all counties have an accent.

lazylad · 19-09-2005 02:35AM

deisedevil wrote:

Still don't get ya really but it don't matter. all counties have an accent.

thats coz im dyslexic

deisedevil · 19-09-2005 02:37AM

*MmmPie* wrote:

The Ardee accent's hilarious! My friend's from Ardee, and she pronounces the word park, for example, like 'paaayyyyyyyyrrrk', and car like 'caaare'...teehee...

I was meetin a girl from ardee and her accent is gas. no bother hay! how's she goin hay. they throw an oul hay in after everythin,lol.

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 10:26PM

i live near dundalk, the accent is nasty!! iv a slight twinge of a 'norn' accent which ppl notice, i was asked once or twice was i from waterford, hell no!! know a girl from w'ford she's so hard to follow, u find urself tryin to keep up cos she ddrraawwllss out every word!! i like the northern accent myself

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:12PM

Worst thing of all is wanke*s who go to college and "develop" this new posh accent,how sad is that :rolleyes:

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:19PM

im at coll with girl from cork this past 2 yrs but her accents toned down a good bit since

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:21PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

im at coll with girl from cork this past 2 yrs but her accents toned down a good bit since

how sad is that,i went to college and lived abroad for years and never lost my acccent or "developed" an accent :rolleyes:

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:26PM

i no another girl who moved from englend to the centre of irl about 8 yrs ago, now she s bn in dundalk for bout 3 yrs, her accent is mad!!! mixture of each! im studyin in frnace so i wouldn mind comin home with a french accent

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:29PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

i no another girl who moved from englend to the centre of irl about 8 yrs ago, now she s bn in dundalk for bout 3 yrs, her accent is mad!!! mixture of each! im studyin in frnace so i wouldn mind comin home with a french accent

I wouldn't change my accent for any cu*t i think it's incredibly sad when people suddendly develop some accent in order to fit in with a certain crowd and pretend they are someone they are not.

aidan_walsh · 19-10-2005 11:30PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

im studyin in frnace

Doesn't that get incredibly hot?

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:32PM

eh im in the bloody south n its pissin rain, NOT what i expected, though mayb itll b better later in the yr!

jonny i dont mean that i want to change my accent i jus think the french accent is kinda sexy

aidan_walsh · 19-10-2005 11:33PM

Oh, so it was a terrible mangeling of "France", and not "furnace". Ok.

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:36PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

eh im in the bloody south n its pissin rain, NOT what i expected, though mayb itll b better later in the yr!

jonny i dont mean that i want to change my accent i jus think the french accent is kinda sexy

Maybe for a bird it is i don't find it sexy

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:38PM

aidan_walsh wrote:

Oh, so it was a terrible mangeling of "France", and not "furnace". Ok.

sorry bout mixup :rolleyes:

got given out to earlier by MAJD in drinks forum for 'textspeak'

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:39PM

ah to hear french lads speakn english is a lot more preferable to some irish accents

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:41PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

ah to hear french lads speakn english is a lot more preferable to some irish accents

Mate of mine is from Paris he's recently moved back there he couldn't score any Irish birds when he was here so obviously the gallic charm isn't appealling to all Irish birds

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:43PM

each to their own i s'pose, u like french girls accents?

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:50PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

each to their own i s'pose, u like french girls accents?

Not overly no,Scottish birds though yes

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:52PM

scottish accent is good, i agree!

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:54PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

scottish accent is good, i agree!

I'll put on a Scottish or French accent if you want cailin

nobodythere · 19-10-2005 11:55PM

Well the scottish settled in the north, hence the northern accent. Also we had the whole thing of the Irish been driven on to the worst farming land in the country (at the time at least) in Connacht around the end of the tribes, so the further West you go the more traditional the Irish accent will get. Dublin is slightly more anglicised (sp?).

Munster accents.... I have no frickin idea where that Cork shite comes from

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:56PM

jonny68 wrote:

I'll put on a Scottish or French accent if you want cailin

how can i resist, i go weak at the knees

dundalk cailin · 19-10-2005 11:57PM

grasshopa wrote:

the further West you go the more traditional the Irish accent will get.

was talkin to a french girl who visited the west of irl n couldn understand a word ppl were sayin, she cud understand me better

jonny68 · 19-10-2005 11:58PM

dundalk cailin wrote:

how can i resist, i go weak at the knees

consider it done

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