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Does Cavan have an accent?

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  • #32
    DB10
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    Ah now sure, lookit we have no accent at all apart from a few of the older men that work in the agricultural sector.

    May I ask Orla what region you are from,so I can pass judgement on your own accent..;)


  • #33
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Orla K wrote: »
    The cavan accent is horrible. It's not as strong as say northern accent but it's not neutral. It should NEVER be described as sexy.

    My aunt used to be a nurse and she was working in Dublin. She went to a patient, who she said was really sexy, great body but then he started talking and in a cavan accent, my aunt was very disapointed. (She was young at the time and I've no idea why she told me this).

    Where the cavan accent rests on likability with other Irish accents (my opinion) just going use a few accents from best to worst
    1.Donegal
    2.Cork
    3.midlands
    4.scumbag limerick
    5.cavan
    6.scumbag dub (but I have very good reason to detest this accent)


    Oh and my aunt also said that it makes people sound stupid.
    Dublin has so many different accents. Anyone care to rattle them off!


  • #34
    Orla K
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    DB10 wrote: »
    Ah now sure, lookit we have no accent at all apart from a few of the older men that work in the agricultural sector.

    May I ask Orla what region you are from,so I can pass judgement on your own accent..;)

    You have an accent, I went to college with someone who was far from an older man that worked in the agricultural sector, she was infact a pink haired lesbian she had a bad accent but lucky for her 4 years in a city died it down.

    I'm from midlands but I don't really have a midlands accent most people think I'm scottish but there is a bit of a mix in there another two common ones are a limerick accent or southern american. The last two are only certain words. I sound like a scot that's been living in kildare for a number of years.


  • #35
    cavan4sam
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    i'll tell ya lad there isnt one iota wrong with the cavan accent , we're proud of it , its them meath wans ya should be laughing at that ternan flute and yon clown hector


  • #36
    Paparazzo
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    The cavan accent doesn't make people sound intelligent.


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  • #37
    ballybay_eh
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    Kinda sounds like a Monaghan man getting stretched.

    I always thought that if a copper coin could talk (like a penny or something), it would have a Cavan accent.


  • #38
    Hydroquinone
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    DB10 wrote: »
    I don't get the map either, it's not of Cavan. If you look closely we are in the top and not the green.

    You don't even have to look closely. It's not like anyone at all could possibly think that Athlone was in Cavan
    Could they? :eek:
    Are there really people who might think that?


  • #39
    dresden8
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    DB10 wrote: »
    I'm from Cavan and people always talk about our accent, I don't think we have one at least not a thick one.

    I suppose I percieve our way as normal and everyone else from different places have the accents...

    Try and describe it for me....:D

    Navan, if Navan was a crack-whore.


  • #40
    DB10
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    cavan4sam wrote: »
    i'll tell ya lad there isnt one iota wrong with the cavan accent , we're proud of it , its them meath wans ya should be laughing at that ternan flute and yon clown hector

    I agree sir. My opinion is that other counties like Meath,Dublin,Longford and Fermanagh are jealous of us and like to pretend we are all stingy feckers with an aul farmers accent. Those Meath wans threw stones at us.

    I tell ya, the young wans in towns about Cavan these days have no culchie accent. Some of them are even a bit posh.


  • #41
    DB10
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    Orla K wrote: »
    You have an accent, I went to college with someone who was far from an older man that worked in the agricultural sector, she was infact a pink haired lesbian she had a bad accent but lucky for her 4 years in a city died it down.

    I'm from midlands but I don't really have a midlands accent most people think I'm scottish but there is a bit of a mix in there another two common ones are a limerick accent or southern american. The last two are only certain words. I sound like a scot that's been living in kildare for a number of years.

    So you have a Scottish/South American/Limerick accent.
    Jaysus,I'd hate to think what you sound like after a few drinks...:D


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  • #42
    kmart6
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    Answer to question=yes!


  • #43
    DB10
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    kmart6 wrote: »
    Answer to question=yes!

    Do you like it?


  • #44
    Baile an Locha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭Baile an Locha


    There was a lad in the gaeltacht spoke irish with the "ceavin" accent,always amused me. I'm from north meath so i cant really judge,hi,


  • #45
    Orla K
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    DB10 wrote: »
    So you have a Scottish/South American/Limerick accent.
    Jaysus,I'd hate to think what you sound like after a few drinks...:D


    I have an Irish accent but it sounds more like a soft scottish one. And some words/sentances I say come out in either a Limerick or southern american(not south american) accent.

    Also I don't drink anymore, but when I did it was just Irish/scottish. I hadn't picked up the american or limerick one then.

    Also with my mix of accents I still think it would sound better than the cavan one.


  • #46
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Orla K wrote: »
    I have an Irish accent but it sounds more like a soft scottish one. And some words/sentances I say come out in either a Limerick or southern american(not south american) accent.

    Also I don't drink anymore, but when I did it was just Irish/scottish. I hadn't picked up the american or limerick one then.

    Also with my mix of accents I still think it would sound better than the cavan one.
    Its like when some people try the welsh accent and it ends up sounding like the indian accent!


  • #47
    This_Years_Love
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    I used to work in the office of a transport company and we sub-contracted a few areas out and one of those was Cavan. I used to have to phone the Cavan driver several times a day. He did have a VERY thick accent and he used a lot of slang terms that must be only used in Cavan... sometimes it was hard to understand what he was talking about.


  • #48
    Orla K
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Its like when some people try the welsh accent and it ends up sounding like the indian accent!

    What?


  • #49
    muckwarrior
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    Yes we definitely have an accent.

    When I first moved to dubland mine was probably a lot stronger than it is now and I got complimented on it all the time!


  • #50
    Spiritoftheseventies
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    Orla K wrote: »
    What?
    two accents in one. Try doing a welsh accent. harder than you think


  • #51
    DB10
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    This_Years_Love wrote: »
    I used to work in the office of a transport company and we sub-contracted a few areas out and one of those was Cavan. I used to have to phone the Cavan driver several times a day. He did have a VERY thick accent and he used a lot of slang terms that must be only used in Cavan... sometimes it was hard to understand what he was talking about.

    What were some of these terms?

    "Horse"? Or the Monaghan equivalent " Horsebox"!


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  • #52
    professore
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    Its like when some people try the welsh accent and it ends up sounding like the indian accent!

    If I try any accent it sounds like an Indian accent (i.e. Apu from the Simpsons)

    Oh and by the way the Cavan accent is one of the worst in the world IMHO.


  • #53
    DB10
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    professore wrote: »
    If I try any accent it sounds like an Indian accent (i.e. Apu from the Simpsons)
    Are you Indian by any chance?;)


  • #54
    g-whizz
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    DB10 wrote: »
    I'm from Cavan and people always talk about our accent, I don't think we have one at least not a thick one.

    I suppose I percieve our way as normal and everyone else from different places have the accents...

    Try and describe it for me....:D
    when you say cavan, its sounds to us like Keee-yaavan!


  • #55
    K-9
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    Somebody has never seen Niell Toibin.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #56
    Orla K
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    bayviewclose wrote: »
    two accents in one. Try doing a welsh accent. harder than you think

    I can't do accents. Normally I don't even remember what they sound like so doing one is near impossible for me. I think that I sound a bit scottish because alot of people ask me 'How long have you been living in Ireland?' And a really stupid question they ask at the end of the conversation is 'Are you sure your not scottish?':rolleyes: No I just forgot.


  • #57
    irish_bob
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    crosstownk wrote: »
    It's in Ulster but most definitely in the Republic. Cavan people are actually quite sound. Not dissimilar to those in neighbouring Monaghan.

    actually cavan people are quite different in my experience from monaghan people , monaghan people are both the cutest and the most crooked people in ireland , in monaghan , delivering tanker loads of launderd diesel is seen as an honest living , i was born on a farm and when i was young i used to go to the cattle marts on a regular basis , nearly every second cattle dealer in the country is from monaghan , crookedness and cuteness are essential in the world of cattle dealing

    cavan people are a bit like kerry people without the charming accent , cagey , cautious and good business people


  • #58
    That_Guy
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SHvRw6aE_0


    watch from 1:00 =p

    "You're an agitating bastard. You're an agitating fcuker"

    "Are you putting the bull in the cow?"

    Rough translations there.


  • #59
    A Primal Nut
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    If you want to hear a Cavan accent download that infamous "Phone tap" from an American radio program where they prank this Cavan lad (living in America) by putting on an Indian Accent. He uses all the Cavan insults ("Ya annoying Bastard" and "Proper Genius"!!!")

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3k2ZyQjUhA&feature=PlayList&p=8CAFE8CEBCCC1885&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=29

    Also, record yourself talking and play it back. I used to think I didn't have an accent till I came to college and people started saying it. I was surprised. Then I heard my voice talking back to me one day I was like "s***".

    Old guys are the funniest:

    "Jaysus, its fair cow-ld out!!"
    "Oh, jaysus, aye. Jaysus, remember d'other day, we were out there in the fields and b'ghorra, wait 'till I tell ya what happened"
    "Jaysus, what happened"
    "Wasn't I out in the town, and jaysus, next thing.....

    God, I hope I don't end up like that!:D


  • #60
    dlambirl
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    I have to agree that the lower side of Cavan has a WOEFUL accent! Although east cavan accent that borders monaghan is pretty neutral


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  • #61
    A Primal Nut
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    Paparazzo wrote: »
    The cavan accent doesn't make people sound intelligent.

    Thats not the point of an accent.

    We are the funniest people in Ireland, so the accent suits us.

    If you want boring, dryarses the South Dublin accent suits fine.:p


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