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As a Frenchman in Dublin, Ireland, even I could hear a distinct accent difference between people from the north and the south banks of the river. Now I wonder
by navaati 6y ago
As a Frenchman in Dublin, Ireland, even I could hear a distinct accent difference between people from the north and the south banks of the river.
Now I wonder if the same could be true of Paris and I'm just blind to it because it's my native language.
- barrkel 6y agoNorthside and southside Dublin are radically different accents. Less so now, with mass media and increased mobility gradually reducing the extremes, but exemplars of each are almost chalk and cheese - like Queen's English vs Cockney. Northside drops trailing Ts, replacing them with a gentle glottal stop ("give me my coat" -> "gimme me coa'"), "book" may be pronounced "buke", etc. Southside, at the sterotypical maximum, pushes trailing Ts towards SH and broadens vowels ("are you all right" -> "ore you awl roish" - it's not quite sh, but in that direction). (I was born in Dublin, my father and his siblings grew up in North Strand in the shade of Croke Park, but I grew up in Galway, so I observed the accent as an outsider when staying in Dublin.)