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Can people in the South discern between different Nordie accents?

  • 05-03-2019 9:56pm
    #1
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭


    I'm originally from England but have been living in Northern Ireland (Omagh and Belfast) for the past 18 years. I'm just curious as to whether people in the south can discern between the different accents up here? I.e. Differences in Belfast accents, Derry accents, Tyrone accents (where people pronounce Car as Kyee-ar Cabbage as Kyee-abbage etc) , North Antrim accents (i.e. people like Brendan Rodgers who sound Scottish at times).

    Like if someone in Dublin spoke with a thick Tyrone or Derry accent, would people figure out he was specifically from Tyrone or Derry before he announced it? Or do people think Nordie's generally sound all the same?


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  • #2
    gmisk
    Registered Users Posts: 31,816 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    In my experience not generally in Dublin. I am originally from county Antrim and get "what part of Scoland are you from?"...a lot.


  • #3
    Sunrise_Sunset
    Registered Users Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Sunrise_Sunset


    No, I can't differentiate them


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It depends on where the listener is from. We who live along the border can tell most northern accents apart, yet I have come across people in Dublin, and further south, who thought a Dundalk accent was from Belfast and a Monaghan accent was Donegal.


  • #5
    amcalester
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,121 ✭✭✭amcalester


    I grew up 5km from the border and it’s all just Nordie to me.

    There’s varying degrees of annoying but I couldn’t place them on a map.


  • #6
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    I’m from Donegal and was confused as Scottish a few times, had to go home and cry into my Irn Bru.


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  • #7
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,475 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    Ey spose it dapends onn da sidjiachon hai


  • #8
    The Bishop Basher
    Registered Users Posts: 4,279 ✭✭✭The Bishop Basher


    I’d know Donegal and Cavan border but away from that I wouldn’t have a rashers.


  • #9
    Immortal Starlight
    Registered Users Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭Immortal Starlight


    I know the difference between Donegal Derry or Belfast accents so I’m not too bad.


  • #10
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    An Ri rua wrote: »
    Ey spose it dapends onn da sidjiachon hai

    Communiddy.


  • #11
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I can distinguish a Derry accent from a Belfast one.

    But I have no doubt that there are differences all over. Those are the ones I remember and recognise. Derry accent is lovely. Some high end Belfast ones are ok too.

    As someone else said, it depends on how they pronounce Situation. LOL>


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  • #12
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I can usually tell before they open their mouths.


  • #13
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I can distinguish a Derry accent from a Belfast one.

    But I have no doubt that there are differences all over. Those are the ones I remember and recognise. Derry accent is lovely. Some high end Belfast ones are ok too.

    As someone else said, it depends on how they pronounce Situation. LOL>

    The Derry accent is similar to the Inishowen one, sir.


  • #14
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,737 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    "Date of birth, fifteenth of the sixth, eighty-five, making me a Gemini and... em... what date of birth did I say...?"


  • #15
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    I can distinguish a Derry accent from a Belfast one.

    But I have no doubt that there are differences all over. Those are the ones I remember and recognise. Derry accent is lovely. Some high end Belfast ones are ok too.

    As someone else said, it depends on how they pronounce Situation. LOL>

    Would you be able to discern a Tyrone accent? Like I said in my OP where they pronounce my car "me kyee-arr hey"


  • #16
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users Posts: 43,024 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    How now brown cow


  • #17
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


    If they pronounce Hughes with a Q then they're from Tyrone (Thrrrone).


  • #18
    marley1
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭marley1


    It all depends on how many whistles they make in a sentence :D


  • #19
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,773 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    Derry accent is lovely.

    No...No it isn't. Think Nadine Coyle and how many nails you can scratch down a blackboard.


  • #20
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 12,990 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    Nope.

    To thine own self be true



  • #21
    Dante
    Registered Users Posts: 1,554 ✭✭✭Dante


    I've lived with dozens of Nordies through the years and they still all sound pretty much the same to me, just varying levels of Nordieness.

    I find the further north you go the more yarry they get. ie car becomes cyar, Spar becomes Spyar and so on so forth.


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  • #22
    mad muffin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    Yes. There’s Northern Irish. Scottish. Geordie.


  • #23
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Its interesting in this video how Donegal accents vary quite a bit. North Donegal (e.g. Letterkenny) sounds like an extension of Derry, whereas other parts sound like Tyrone or Fermanagh (obvious I suppose).



  • #24
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I lived in Belfast for a couple of years and work with a load of lads from Derry so I’m not to bad

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #25
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,621 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Yeah I can tell the main ones apart, once I fixed a few reference voices from certain people. It's mostly just familiarity anyway, like I could tell a wexford accent from a ross one from a scalder, but I would suggest with any from the Wesht


  • #26
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,865 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    I swear I was listening to a clip on radio this morning (sorry but I can't remember what station), and I really though it was Peter Casey.

    Turned out to be someone else entirely. And I must be doting but I can't remember who it was either.

    Can anyone help me here?


  • #27
    Pythagorean
    Registered Users Posts: 244 ✭✭Pythagorean


    There is a noticeable variation in accents in the Republic, we would instantly identify a Cork accent over a Dublin accent, I wonder if the differences are so obvious up North ? I can identify some regional variations from listening to Joey Dunlop,( North Antrim) Gerry Adams,(Belfast), Martin Mc Guinness (Derry), but that's about it.


  • #28
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Yes there is a considerable variation in Northern accents. Belfast and Antrim tend to be quite nasal and strong, but Tyrone, Derry and Fermanagh have a softer brogue.

    Donegal has a brogue not unlike Derry and Monaghan is quite like Armagh and Tyrone. Down varies the closer to Belfast you get, with a North/South divide.

    Louth has IMO the least Northern brogue, and the Cavan accebt gets. More northern the closer to the border.


  • #29
    SharpshooterTom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    Pythagorean wrote: »
    There is a noticeable variation in accents in the Republic, we would instantly identify a Cork accent over a Dublin accent, I wonder if the differences are so obvious up North ? I can identify some regional variations from listening to Joey Dunlop,( North Antrim) Gerry Adams,(Belfast), Martin Mc Guinness (Derry), but that's about it.

    I'm going to generalise here, perhaps a bit unfairly, suggest it might depend your background.

    People from catholic and nationalist backgrounds would have a more of an appreciation of differences in southern accents and understanding of them than people protestant or unionist backgrounds, who from my experience, think everyone sounds the same, or no interest in knowing the differences.


  • #30
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    I'm from Roscommon and when I lived in Donegal I was often asked if I was from Dublin, Cork etc.

    I can tell a Donegal accent apart from other northern or Ulster accents generally, after that I'm guessing.


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  • #31
    Wheety
    Registered Users Posts: 5,510 ✭✭✭Wheety


    You mean Catholic v Protestant accents?


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