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Don't get me wrong.I'm of Irish stock,But one thing baffles me? |
Travel Info Why is it that the Irish drop the letter aitch when using words such as : tink, instead of think,tree .....instead of three,etc yet when it comes to the river Thames, they pronounce the aitch whilst the rest of us drop it. No offence,I love the Irish......well most of you. It just puzzles me. Maybe it's done simply to annoy the English Travel Tips It's partly down to the way we speak, and party down to what your untrained ear can't hear. My 'th' sounds are very soft but no one from the West of Ireland would have any difficulty differentiating between my 'threes' and 'trees'. But to a foreigner both words might sound quite the same. Because I'm used to soft 'th' sounds, when a Cockney says 'three' I hear 'free'. As others have pointed out there are huge variations in accents around the country - the dropping of the "haitch" (as we call it) varies by region, being most marked in Dublin and Kerry. In Kildare they keep or add in aitches, but drop the 't' ... 'water' becomes 'waher'. In Galway we add in aitches where none exist ... 'water' becomes 'wather' ... but given our soft 'th' sounds, you probably wouldn't notice our error. If you truly want to know where all this originates, it has a lot to do with the Irish language. In Irish, 't' on its own is usually pronounced as a soft 'th', with a pure 't' or strong 'th' sound being very rare in the language. Others its cos their Iris !!!!! I think you answered it yourself. it would b called an accent!!! people from all over the world pronounce words differerntly!! like when i was working the other day i had americans come in n one of them tried 2 get me to change the way we spoke because he couldnt understand what we were saying, in the end i had to put an american accent on to pronounce one pound!! Well not all Irish do it. It depend on what part of Ireland they come from. Funny you mention the H cockneys don't pronounce the h sound i.e ere instead of here. lol. Well we Irish love to put the wind up the English 鈽? Why do the english add an H?! cuz they're tickos! What really annoys me is how many now use "yous" for you in plural, like "I'll see yous later in the pub". 5 years ago this was much less common. A Dutchman in Dublin. |
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