I'm listening to some Dublin radio show and the radio announcer sounds like an American with a slight lilt at the end of the sentences. What's up with that?
Holy crap, this Dublin accent sounds almost American
Perhaps it could have something to do with the fact that a large percentage of Americans are originally from Ireland?
<<Perhaps it could have something to do with the fact that a large percentage of Americans are originally from Ireland?>>
A large percent of Americans are originally from America. A large percent of their ancestors, however, are from Ireland.
A large percent of Americans are originally from America. A large percent of their ancestors, however, are from Ireland.
It really depends on "social class" whether or not a person from the fair city of Dublin "sounds" American or not. Generally speaking there can be some similarities - emphasis on the word "some" - between the Southern Irish (not just Dublin) accent and general American, but by and large the differenmces between the two are pretty well marked.
But we are "talking Dublin" here, are we not, and the majority of Dublin people have a very distinctive accent, as I knew before I paid my one and only visit, of just a few hours' duration, a couple or so years ago. It would have been even shorter had not my mate and I missed the last ferry for the day back to Holyhead, in North Wales, so we ended up chatting with some of the "locals" including two extremely interesting members of the Garda Siochana (the Southern Irish police force, the words meaning, in English" - guardians of the peace).... at about two o'clock in the morning in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced "Lairy").
The commentator in the following link, presumably an Irishman, can sound a wee bit American at times, a wee bit like Gay Byrne, a male star of Irish late night TV apparently - but not too much, but the real stars are the Dubliners issuing forth with the real street-wise Dublinese - now that really is the TRUE Dublinspeak:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0lFNSCuUs
But we are "talking Dublin" here, are we not, and the majority of Dublin people have a very distinctive accent, as I knew before I paid my one and only visit, of just a few hours' duration, a couple or so years ago. It would have been even shorter had not my mate and I missed the last ferry for the day back to Holyhead, in North Wales, so we ended up chatting with some of the "locals" including two extremely interesting members of the Garda Siochana (the Southern Irish police force, the words meaning, in English" - guardians of the peace).... at about two o'clock in the morning in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced "Lairy").
The commentator in the following link, presumably an Irishman, can sound a wee bit American at times, a wee bit like Gay Byrne, a male star of Irish late night TV apparently - but not too much, but the real stars are the Dubliners issuing forth with the real street-wise Dublinese - now that really is the TRUE Dublinspeak:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BR0lFNSCuUs
Also, if your ears are not over sensitive, then listen to a Dublin taxi driver with a rich and colourful form of the English language. Whether or not he is typical of all Dublin taxi drivers I wouldn't know, but discounding his vocabulary, his accent most certainly is. Do you think he sounds Amerian in any way? I don't.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfgux7IiyA&feature=related
Go to Dublin sometime - it's a lovely city, and it has the € as its currency, something which the UK will follow sooner rather than later.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfgux7IiyA&feature=related
Go to Dublin sometime - it's a lovely city, and it has the € as its currency, something which the UK will follow sooner rather than later.
<< A large percent of Americans are originally from America. A large percent of their ancestors, however, are from Ireland. >>
Yes, that's what I meant.
<< dirty Irish >>
Dirty you. I'm half Irish.
Yes, that's what I meant.
<< dirty Irish >>
Dirty you. I'm half Irish.
I don't think Irish English would have had much influence over American English: the areas of densest Irish settlement - the Boston and New York areas - are also areas with non-rhotic dialects (not an Irish feature at all) that diverge heavily from General American.
I find this thread a little offensive. Yes, some Irish people sound like Americans to a certain degree, then you hear the "r" which is both charming and NOT American.
Not all Irish people sound like the "Lucky Charms" accent that actors like to use.
Not all Irish people sound like the "Lucky Charms" accent that actors like to use.
I like Irish English having unrounded /A/ in ''long, song, wrong'', just like Westerns accents of US and Atlantic Canada.
>> I find this thread a little offensive. Yes, some Irish people sound like Americans to a certain degree, then you hear the "r" which is both charming and NOT American. <<
But some Midwesterners and Canadians have a similar "r" pronunciation.
But some Midwesterners and Canadians have a similar "r" pronunciation.