Peoples Accents

[Tony Baloney]

That old North Antrim accent is brutal - you ever hear Ally Elliot or the late Joey Dunlop on TV/radio being interviewed and you will get it.  The spidey Belfast accent is without doubt the worst.  That Bangor accent is annoying as hell, listening to Snodden and his woman every morning and you'll get the drift.  Was the Strabane accent not voted the Sexiest In Ireland before in some National poll?

Ah but Ballymoney and Dunloy are not representative of that entire area N Rico..........

Aye that's North/West Antrim as opposed to the refined tones of your average North East Antrim native!

I know a couple of fellas that have gone abroad to work for 6 months and have come back oh arring like they were born and bred in the West Country in England. I would say Minder knows them too!

[Tony Baloney]

Accent dropping is also a bugbear of mine. Have met loads of people here in Dublin with what you would I suppose call a "plum accent" /what I think is called a "Dublin 4 accent" outside of Dublin and am amazed to find out they came from the country. Imo there is no way they could have picked it up naturally so I have to presume they deliberately dropped their own accent.......only  for it hilariously to resurface when they are drunk. Women are by far the worst offenders.
Was gobsmacked for example to hear last week that Claire Byrne from Newstalk was from Laois, Mountrath I think.

The country posters here must have noticed this phenomenon.

Would also agree to an extent that the Dublin accent would seem to be far and away the most disliked accent in Ireland.

This is true. I went to Trinity back in the day for my engineering degree. There was this lassie in the class that had the most snobby D4 accent you could think of. I was sure Daddy must have been some big knob from the D4 region. I was shocked one night out when the beer was in that out came a Cork accent and Daddy was a fairly normal sort. I think it often comes down to  the group a young lassie falls in with when they head to Dublin. Women, I think, more than men seem to need to "fit in" rather than be themselves. It was  the same when I was in secondary school. 1st day back all the 1st years would be up the front of the bus all quiet and afraid. Following week all the girl 1st years would be smoking and holding the fag up over their heads like a badge of identity, while that was much less obvious in the lads.

I must finish by adding  the Cavan accent is truly a beautiful accent and all those that disagree are jealous as hell of it.

That's  was a C4 accent which is  Cork persons attempt at  to be like all things D4

I met a girl like that in Dublin last year, she was from Limerick but styled herself on the D4 look and style, i didnt know that there was a look and style and just though it was fashion but the D4 girls would love to think that they were setting the style for girls around the country. I think she is the most pathetic person I have met in a few years as she tried to have the attitude too..... a total clown

A mate was at a party last year which was all solicitors etc and a doll was giving it the old Malone Road accent (she was from Omagh!) and thinking she was something out of sex and the city. Anyway she got too much to drink and started this bit of crying so Paddy went over to offer her some comfort(!) and she broke down and told him her da drove a digger and she didn't want her colleagues to find out! What a f**king dick!

[Hoof Hearted]

Graham McDowell is hard to listen to.
Wayne McCullough not much better

[Drumanee 1]

Graham McDowell is hard to listen to.
Wayne McCullough not much better

just about to say the same,mcdowell sounds like a right prat

[Onion Bag]

Was chatting to a girl over xmas there, havent seen her in a couple of years, i got talking to her anyhow, she was telling me that she was living and working in London, f**k me didnt she have a cockney accent. f**k i felt like hitting her a boot up the hole, i just walked away insted, what a dick!

[Hardy]

What's that nordie thing where they say "noy" for "now". Is it only on the BBC they do that or is it a general Malone Road thing, or Bangor, or what? It's the only example I can think of where an accent turns a word into a different word.

[Minder]

Graham McDowell is hard to listen to.
Wayne McCullough not much better

just about to say the same,mcdowell sounds like a right prat

I wanna be worl chemian..........

[Chrisowc]

Here be'es me

[Billys Boots]

And nordies can't say 'sixth'.

[GalwayBayBoy]

Graham McDowell is hard to listen to.
Wayne McCullough not much better

Must be a northern golfer thing. David Feherty has adopted an American drawl as well. Not as bad as McDowell though considering he lives there full-time now.

Still like the Packet Racket though.

[saffron sam2]

Lynchbhoy's is quite unique.

[Doogie Browser]

Was chatting to a girl over xmas there, havent seen her in a couple of years, i got talking to her anyhow, she was telling me that she was living and working in London, f**k me didnt she have a cockney accent. f**k i felt like hitting her a boot up the hole, i just walked away insted, what a dick!

Don't you mean a boot in the jam roll me old china?

[Minder]

Graham McDowell is hard to listen to.
Wayne McCullough not much better

Must be a northern golfer thing. David Feherty has adopted an American drawl as well. Not as bad as McDowell though considering he lives there full-time now.
Still like the Packet Racket though.

No excuse.

[Billys Boots]

And nordies can't say 'sixth'.

And staters cant say 'South' or 'Thirty'.  If fact, staters are pretty bad with all words beginning with the letter T  

The match will be played on the turd.

No, no, no, ye need to clean out yer lugs! 

[ludermor]

I always think the south mayo/north galway accent is very camp, if you are going to have a culchie accent have a good thick accent. Some of the donegal accents would be similar