If you ask someone where they are from, does it tell you about them?

Example, currently working in Cork City. Have heard lads pronounce it as Corrrk and then one or two ladies pronounce it as Quirke. Thar makes me cringe and suspect we have a bluffer in the house.

Many years ago worked with ladies who mentioned a county called Wudafad and it took me about 10 minutes to get my head around that.

Best of all is a Dublin lady I worked with who made no bones about it, true blue Northsider from Dooblin. No mention of chaps, boys or that type of thing.

And if you are from my side of the country, lads just over the border are from Tipp'rary and we're from Limrik .....

Any others?

slayer (Limerick) - Posts: 6480 - 27/08/2015 16:04:02    1777171

Our near neighbours are actually from DARRY and not Derry as you might assume.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9116 - 27/08/2015 16:54:24    1777199

well if you're from Kerry then I'm from MEAD!

Spillane is a good example of what I mean

Uncle_Fester (Meath) - Posts: 217 - 27/08/2015 16:57:08    1777202

Peter can't seem to pronounce the county he played for...Trone

Find_the_space (Tyrone) - Posts: 313 - 27/08/2015 17:00:46    1777204

Michael Lysters pronounciation of MonagHAN. Never ever heard anyone else say it like that.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12116 - 27/08/2015 17:08:47    1777211

Uncle_Fester
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well if you're from Kerry then I'm from MEAD!

Spillane is a good example of what I mean

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Uncle_Fester the North Meath people like to be called the North Made Men !

WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 875 - 27/08/2015 17:15:35    1777214

Why is Barry John KEANE pronounced KANE?

benjyyy (Donegal) - Posts: 1422 - 27/08/2015 17:25:42    1777221

I'm proud to be from Loud

Cherno_Samba (Louth) - Posts: 632 - 27/08/2015 17:38:16    1777223

Louth GAA Gaelic Grounds are in Drawda.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 27/08/2015 17:42:16    1777225

Louth GAA Gaelic Grounds are in Drawda.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 27/08/2015 17:43:16    1777226

Anytime i hear Meath or louth fans it seems like they are saying "cmon Meed" or "cmon Louddd"

Wouldnt exactly say it sounds posh though.

KY4SAM2015 (Kerry) - Posts: 898 - 27/08/2015 17:52:25    1777230

Why is Barry John KEANE pronounced KANE?

Similarly, why does Ger Canning call Karl Lacey Carol Lacey?! Wrecks my head

turkeyplucker (UK) - Posts: 137 - 27/08/2015 18:04:03    1777239

Meath fans used to chant 'mee-ed' with two syllables

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 27/08/2015 18:14:12    1777242

It really bothers me when I hear people pronounce 'Tyrone' [tier-own] as [Tie-Rone]! I don't know why this annoys me so much as I'm from Wicklow but I suspect it strongly suggests that I need to get out more!

stanley (None) - Posts: 434 - 27/08/2015 18:16:59    1777244

spot on......all the Kerry boys, Spillane, Tomas O Shea etc say "Ty-rone" the Anglo-American way, while people from up the country say "Tir Own"

maroondiesel (Mayo) - Posts: 1196 - 27/08/2015 18:52:27    1777254

The Quirke from the ladies in Cork is their equivalent of the Dublin mid-Atlantic, or what used to be called a Dort ,accent I would say. In Dublin OU is misprounced as AY, almost like a soft Northern accent. So count, is pronounced cAYnt, about becomes abAYt and so on. Listen to Nadia Forde for example, if you can bear to, or your woman who married Gerald Kean, a classic contrived accent. The word LIKE is thrown into every sentence so that you have similes flying around left, right and centre. You will also notice over stressed Rs so record become recorrrd. If you want to really experience this, hop on a dorrrt at Dalkey in Dublin around 420 on a school day when the posh kids are heading home from fee paying school. They have, in effect, invented their own dialect. You won't hear too many Brendan Behan accents among them but hey, they wouldn't want to be associated with a working class type from north inner city Dublin anyway so good luck to them. Speaking of Cork, if you really want a laugh listen to Rachel Allen for half an hour. I know, I know..torture. What's that all about though? It's another language nevermind dialect. I would view that as posh Cork. You need money to invent your own language like that, clipped vowels I think is what you would call it.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 27/08/2015 19:55:40    1777279

Joxer, you're right about posh Dubs mispronouncing their "ou" as "ay". In Australia I was living in the same house as a posh dude from "Terenyurrre". I was going to the shop one evening and he asked me to get him a "toy mate". I wasn't sure what I heard so I asked him again; "get me a toy mate". I asked "What the hell is a "toy mate"?" "The chocolate borrr, toy mate". Posh git was looking for a "time out". I had never heard it pronounced like that before!

ballydalane (Kilkenny) - Posts: 1246 - 28/08/2015 08:03:35    1777321

turkeyplucker
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Why is Barry John KEANE pronounced KANE?

Similarly, why does Ger Canning call Karl Lacey Carol Lacey?! Wrecks my head.

Friends and family I have from Galway and Mayo all pronounce Keane as Kane- including the ones called Keane! Similarly they pronounce Walsh as Welsh which is pretty much a literal translation.

Carol Lacey thing wrecks my head as well!

roundball (Tipperary) - Posts: 2514 - 28/08/2015 09:37:48    1777348

Thing that gets to me is listening to someone say "traffic is slow at the Red Cow rindabite ". Maybe I should get out more!!!

Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 28/08/2015 10:33:25    1777366

Yeah that does my head in as well. I don't care how they pronounce it themselves either! Keane is Keane. Kane is Kane. Walsh is Walsh. Welsh is Welsh.

Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12116 - 28/08/2015 10:34:12    1777367