Rhotic, so the reference's r's stay; th is a dental stop rather than a fricative; the long diphthongs of England are pure vowels here, as in Scotland; and for many speakers STRUT and FOOT are one vowel, so 'cut' rhymes with 'put'. The melody rises and falls more than any English variety.
Où: Ireland — Dublin and the general supra-regional variety
Tout ce que le moteur d’orthographe sait transcrire, l’accent sait le déplacer. Ralentissez pour entendre la forme.
A wide, singing melody with rises inside the sentence, not only at the end. Stress falls later in a word than in England.
Dans l’ordre où la bouche les applique. Chaque avant/après est écoutable — cliquez sur l’API. Le motif est la règle telle que le moteur l’exécute, pour les curieux.
θ → tComment: Tongue tip on the back of the top teeth, then release. Do not let air hiss.
Irish has no θ, so the sound is made as a stop with the tongue on the teeth. 'Thirty-three' begins with two t's — but dental ones, which is why an Irish 'tree' and 'three' are still not quite the same.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| think | |||
| three | |||
| bath |
ð → d| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| this | |||
| brother | |||
| mother |
əʊ → oːComment: Hold one rounded vowel and do not let it glide.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | |||
| home |
eɪ → eː| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| face | |||
| day |
aɪ → ɑɪIn Dublin it goes further still, to ɔɪ — 'Irish' as 'Oirish'.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| my | |||
| Irish |
ɑː → aːThe back ɑː of RP never developed here. It is the a of Italian or Spanish, held long.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| car | |||
| father |
ʌ → ʊComment: Say 'bus' with the vowel of 'book'.
The foot–strut split happened in southern England in the 1600s and did not reach Ireland or the north of England. 'Butter' and 'put' share a vowel.
| Mot | Référence | Accent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| cut | now the same as 'put' | ||
| bus | |||
| mother |
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