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Phonetically ,how would you pronounce "ART"..

I ask because I was in Easons today and I asked a guy where the Art section was..He seemed confused..he said "WHAA.I repeated ART the ART section,oh he said "EARTH,and I follow him to the Art section,,where he points and says thats the "EARTH" there..

Now Im not talking about accents here,just how the word is pronounced..
How do other people pronounce the word "Art"?

I pronounce it like "Dart"..
 
Thank god you dont say the "Dort" thedaras :)

Ah Dublin is great for the different pronunciations of the same word.

Luas, Loose, Looass, Lewis, Loois (loo is (said like "this")

Our, Ar (like far)
 
thedaras said:
Phonetically ,how would you pronounce "ART"..
..."EARTH,and I follow him to the Art section,,where he points and says thats the "EARTH" there..

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Earth to dimwit! He was probably on the tiles last night and needed to come down to earth himself.:D
 
Normally pronunciations don't bother me at all but I find the BBC programme 'Don't get done, get Dom' quite interesting to watch, but his pronunciation of 'consummmmmmmmmmmmer' extremely annoying :mad: Putting it down to old age.
 
Another pronuciation I find really annoying is when people say "RUUM" instead of "ROOM"..:D
 
School = skewel
Tower =Towhere
Sandwich = sangwitch
Boston =Bosstun
I could go on...

I love country accents though and love the way they pronounce words like;
Water=wha her
Butter= bu her
 
ajapale said:
Most Irish people (and some English People) pronounce the "R" but some dont and pronounce it "aat"!
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True and some country folk say Arsh..cute though,and its just great that we have different accents throughout the country..
 
thedaras said:
School = skewel
Tower =Towhere
Sandwich = sangwitch
Boston =Bosstun
I could go on...
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Ha, I'm from the country side and pronouce all of them like you've described

thedaras said:
I love country accents though and love the way they pronounce words like;
Water=wha her
Butter= bu her
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As for these though, I don't recognize these are culchie accents. It's inner city Dube a lan where I've encountered bu her when I ask the girl in Centra for a roll.

I agree with the first part, not with the second part
 
micmclo said:
Ha, I'm from the country side and pronouce all of them like you've described



As for these though, I don't recognize these are culchie accents. It's inner city Dube a lan where I've encountered bu her when I ask the girl in Centra for a roll.

I agree with the first part, not with the second part
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I agree on the bu her, I would have said that was more a Dub pronunciation than a culchie one.. Also, I find it funny the way Dubs say book, like bOOOOk.
 
Wa-her and Bu -her are very common in Kilkenny..
One of my kids has a friend in Kilkenny whose name is Cathy..Cathys brother pronounces her name as KA_E..so very typical of KK.
I would say in Dublin its more like;
Water = wha-er
Butter = Buh-er
Just different emphasis on parts of the word..
 
as in Kilkenny 'city'!, I think buher and such like are heard most often in the midlands alright, definitely heard it in Tullamore anyway.
 
Would the dub pronounciation of book not be BUKE?

And butter = buth-er?

My boss usually says pacific instead of specific (he is not from dublin).

I worked in a restaurant in the states for a summer and for ease of understanding I slipped into speaking american. I was always caught out when I called the list of salad dressings:
French,
Ranch,
Blue Cheese,
Thousand Island,
and Light IT-alian

The customers would say 'Lite EYE-taalian? Youre from Eyerland arent you?'
 
I can't remember what it was on - probably a news report - but recently some woman kept referring to a place called Bilesbridge in Dublin, I wonder if it's near that place I have heard of called Boilsbridge?
 
A Corkman was recently trying to arrange an event for "awtors day". Which authors I wondered to myself (thinking that that was what he meant). But no! He was referring to Arthur's Day (Guinness).
 
Another one I heard on BBC R4 last night. Ryan Tubridy was being asked to comment on the Queen's visit. Two different reporters called him Ryan Two-Briddy. Hope he clarifies that before he hits R2 in the summer!
 
If you're in the midlands or a garda fresh from Templemore it's not v-ickle it's vay-hick-el

Yep, I've heard the bewk from Louth people too for book. Probably some Nordie influence

If you're farming you can say yo or u. Both for ewe and realy it doesn't matter what you use, no issue here
 
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