Re: Silent E
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2001, 12:28 |
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At 15:40 2001-10-06 +0100, Keith Gaughan wrote:
>>. What's a dort accent?
>The accent of those along the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART) line
between Bray and Dublin. The primary characteristic of the accent is
elongated and extremely mangled vowels, e.g. the word `dart' is pronounced
/do:rt/. These days, it's rather ridiculed. It was once fashionable/common
amongst graduates & students of Trinity and UCD. Bob Geldof has a weaker
variant of the accent.
>K. >>
You mean the **English** accent of people from this area, don't you, rather
than an accent of Irish?
/BP 8^)>
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