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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.
Hiberno-English [a] or Irish English (IrE), [5] also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, [6] is the set of dialects of English native to the island of Ireland. [7] In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, English is the dominant first language in everyday use and, alongside the Irish language, one of two official languages (with Ulster Scots, in Northern Ireland, being yet ...
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 ...
ST PATRICK’S DAY: As we celebrate St Patrick’s Day, Adam White recalls the long history of dodgy Irish accents in film
Those varieties are all rhotic, like most other Irish accents, but the /r/ sound is specifically a velarised alveolar approximant: [ɹˠ]. [5] (Among some very traditional speakers, other possible /r/ variants include a "tapped R", the alveolar tap ⓘ, or even a "uvular R", the voiced uvular fricative ⓘ, in rural south-central Ireland. [6])
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.
Ulster English, [1] also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland. The dialect has been influenced by the local Ulster dialect of the Scots language , brought over by Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster and ...
Dublin English is the collection of diverse varieties of Hiberno-English spoken in the metropolitan area of Dublin, the capital of Ireland.Modern-day Dublin English largely lies on a phonological continuum between two extremes (largely, a broad versus general accent distinction).