The Louth Accent

Iwasfrozen · 18-04-2011 11:46AM

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I have cousins from Ardee and anything you ask them there's a 'Hi' added to it

eg.
Where are you from?
Ardee hi

How are you?
Oh hi very well hi!!!

I don't understand it, why is everything hi in Ardee?!?!

Maybe they were annoyed because you didn't say hi back.

Biggins · 18-04-2011 11:47AM

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

...I don't understand it, why is everything hi in Ardee?!?!

Feck all else to do in Ardee I suppose.

pow wow · 18-04-2011 11:51AM

They all sound Northern to me :cool:

stovelid · 18-04-2011 12:44PM

It's horrible, it must be said.

Hookah · 18-04-2011 12:50PM

There are different accents for the two towns and then the rest of Louth.

Then there are different accents within the towns, usually depending on the socio-economic divide.

There is no ubiquitous Louth accent. Although the subtleties may be a matter of perception.

One of the last times I was in Cork the taxi man was just bowled over by my accent. He couldn't get enough of it, and pleaded with me never to lose it. :cool:

Louth accent, ftw.

Witchie · 18-04-2011 01:14PM

I love the drawdaaa accent and often get my mates from down there to say maazbazz for me coz it cracks me up.

I hate dundalk though, and not just the annoying accent. Will have the dubious pleasure of putting up with a couple of hundred of them next monday. Dam.

Jesus Wept · 18-04-2011 01:15PM

Witchie wrote: »

I love the drawdaaa accent and often get my mates from down there to say maazbazz for me coz it cracks me up.

I hate dundalk though, and not just the annoying accent. Will have the dubious pleasure of putting up with a couple of hundred of them next monday. Dam.

lol! guy in school used to say that too, took me back.

krudler · 18-04-2011 01:16PM

the closer to the Narth you go the worse the accent gets, border counties are horrible, but full blown Narthern accents are horrendous.

so they are.

krudler · 18-04-2011 01:17PM

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I have cousins from Ardee and anything you ask them there's a 'Hi' added to it

eg.
Where are you from?
Ardee hi

How are you?
Oh hi very well hi!!!

I don't understand it, why is everything hi in Ardee?!?!

I get this all the time

"whaaays may bill so high hi?"

Paddy_Smith · 18-04-2011 09:01PM

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I have cousins from Ardee and anything you ask them there's a 'Hi' added to it

eg.
Where are you from?
Ardee hi

How are you?
Oh hi very well hi!!!

I don't understand it, why is everything hi in Ardee?!?!

Yeah they say either 'Hi' or 'Hey'.

I actually like the Ardee accent, I must say.

Gunsfortoys · 18-04-2011 09:06PM

Still better than the "Doeblin" accent it has to be said.

Vicxas · 18-04-2011 09:13PM

Helow dere now how are ye?!

toobeyshaw · 18-04-2011 09:19PM

Poor Craythur wrote: »

My first boyfriend was from Drogheda. Oh man, I learned so many new words from him, it's like a whole different lingo up there.

I had never heard the word 'oxter' before I met him, and had no clue what he meant the first time he said "Where's your jellybag?" to me. :eek:

I am from Drogheda.....never heard of 'oxter' or 'jellybag'! :rolleyes:

sparkthatbled · 18-04-2011 09:21PM

As a dub living in Drogheda, I can safely say the accent is the most annoying in Ireland. Even more annoying than those guys from cork whose voices never broke.

whydoibother? · 18-04-2011 09:30PM

I like the it and my favourite word pronounced in a Louth accent is "book". I always try to get them to say this.

Poor Craythur · 18-04-2011 09:41PM

toobeyshaw wrote: »

I am from Drogheda.....never heard of 'oxter' or 'jellybag'! :rolleyes:

My ex BF and another lad from Drogheda in my class both used those terms with regularlity. So put those rolleyes away.

Paddy_Smith · 18-04-2011 09:41PM

sparkthatbled wrote: »

As a dub living in Drogheda, I can safely say the accent is the most annoying in Ireland. Even more annoying than those guys from cork whose voices never broke.

Yeah the Drogheda accent is quite annoying alright.

ProjectColossus · 18-04-2011 09:54PM

From Dundalk, yeah, accent is a bit ****. Think I've mostly managed to not pick it up properly, people outside of Dundalk are usually surprised when I tell them. Although I seem to alternate between book and bewk, and have to remind myself that it rhymes with fuck :rolleyes:

Also, never heard of jellybag.

Paddy_Smith · 18-04-2011 10:01PM

I'm amazed that people have never heard of jellybag.

hamlet1 · 18-04-2011 10:09PM

have to say i loved the accents of the louth gardai on that tv series rte had about them!

francie81 · 18-04-2011 10:14PM

Am from Dunleer and many would have mistaked my accent for Drogheda or Clogherhead (South Louth if you like) and to me its an insult if I come across with such an accent, I'll keep pinching myself in saying am culchie true and true

.

Overall I don't see much wrong with a Louth accent in fact its one of the many accents in the country that doesn't seem to have much boggery to it unless of course from a Dublin point of view.

toobeyshaw · 18-04-2011 10:15PM

Poor Craythur wrote: »

My ex BF and another lad from Drogheda in my class both used those terms with regularlity. So put those rolleyes away.

The rolleyes weren't meant as an insult! I was merely stating that I had never heard those words, wish I'd used a different smiley now

they didn't use them in my school but could have used them in a different one, or its possible a different agegroup to me

Not feeling the love for Drawda on this thread tonight!

Voodoomelon · 18-04-2011 10:29PM

I'm from Louth, just outside Dundalk and have neither a Dundalk, Drogheda, Dunleer or Ardee accent.

Its your average neutral Irish (not bogger) accent, I feel blessed. People from Dundalk call me posh because I don't tack "hai" onto the end of every sentence. I think theres a compliment in there somewhere...

francie81 · 18-04-2011 10:34PM

Voodoomelon wrote: »

"hai"

I would like to refer to it as 'heyyyyyy' rather haha, I think as I got older I don't feel as if I say this as much at the end of every sentence maybe I have the right to feel blessed also

Seannew1 · 20-04-2011 12:03AM

francie81 wrote: »

I would like to refer to it as 'heyyyyyy' rather haha, I think as I got older I don't feel as if I say this as much at the end of every sentence maybe I have the right to feel blessed also

I'm from Louth myself,go to college in Dublin and on a nightout had a few drinks and the word Heyyyyy slipt out........the slagging i got.

NufcNavan · 20-04-2011 01:24AM

The Drogheda accent is a mash up of a Dublin accent and a typical Louth accent really. Not sure why.

"Comin t' d' shop, I wanna buy a maaaaaaaahs baaaaaaaaah."

HavingCrack · 20-04-2011 01:30AM

Arrrrrdeee Couuunty Louuuth, hai!

What is it with saying hi at the end of every sentence?

NufcNavan · 20-04-2011 01:31AM

HavingCrack wrote: »

Arrrrrdeee Couuunty Louuuth, hai!

What is it with saying hi at the end of every sentence?

In fairness it is not just an Ardee thing, most people from Monaghan and a few from Cavan do it too.

Lapin · 20-04-2011 01:38AM

My girlfriend is from Dun-Dawwkk so I have to agree with the OP on this one.

Although I haven't a clue what she is saying a lot of the time.

flyswatter · 20-04-2011 03:04AM

I was born and bred in Louth. I actually can't place my accent. It's very neutral. Both of my parents were born in a different part of Ireland. It's a funny old accent I'll admit. Maaarzbaaa!

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