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A brogue (/ b r oʊ ɡ /) is a regional accent or dialect, especially an Irish accent in English. [ 1 ] The first use of the term brogue originated around 1525 to refer to an Irish accent, as used by John Skelton , [ 2 ] and it still, most generally, refers to any (Southern) Irish accent.
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The following words are of Goidelic origin but it cannot be ascertained whether the source language was Old Irish or one of the modern Goidelic languages.. Brogue [1] An accent, Irish, or Scottish Gaelic bròg, shoe (of a particular kind worn by Irish and Gaelic peasants), Old Irish bróc, from Norse brókr [2]
For example, th-fronting is commonly found, and typical Scottish features such as the post-vocalic /r/ are reduced, [26] although this last feature is more likely to be a development of Central Belt Scots origin, unrelated to Anglo-English nonrhoticity. [27]
Brogue (accent), regionally accented English, especially Irish-accented; Mission brogue, an accent of English spoken in the Mission District of San Francisco; Ocracoke brogue, a family of English dialects in the South Atlantic United States; Ottawa Valley Brogue, historical accents of English in the Ottawa River valley of Canada
Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...
Accents and dialects vary widely across Great Britain, Ireland and nearby smaller islands. The UK has the most local accents of any English-speaking country [citation needed]. As such, a single "British accent" does not exist. Someone could be said to have an English, Scottish, Welsh, or Irish accent, although these all have many different ...
A Doric Scots speaker, recorded in Scotland. Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots [1] or Northeast Scots, [2] refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric.