Young people are MUCH MUCH more citizens of the world today. Sometimes, a third, transitional dialect between Southern and Northern Ireland is designated, known as south Ulster. Instead, it's, "'Bout ye?" Maybe because he watches too many American movies, I don't know. “Belfast upspeak” describes the upward inflection you find in Belfast English (and perhaps Northern Irish accents generally). A linguist named Bob Ladd commented that, “It’s important not to confuse the rises in Belfast, Glasgow, etc. (literary Scots drave, driven). Berliner Lautarchiv British & Commonwealth recordings, Opie collection of children's games & songs. We started to welcome the world to our great city – and the world started to come and enjoy themselves.
There are samples of people with Irish and British accents reading the same words on the dialect studies websites. La ville a longtemps été déchirée entre deux camps. Used throughout Ireland, Scotland and parts of northern England. The two cities are hardly separate places any more given their urban sprawl. I find it disappointing that all of the comments I’ve seen in relation to this topic seems stuck in the idea that it “comes” from some specific place.
Sorry, I didn’t realise that link related to the previous paragraph. Though its always interesting to pick up on different local expressions.The expression that always seems to entertain/confuse my non-Norn Iron friends is so and so 'must have had a hard paper round' to mean that someone looks a lot older than they are.
Other phonological features include the following: Some of the vocabulary used among young people in Ulster, such as the word “spide“, is of Belfast origin.
My fiance has never heard of it before.I'll check out your post on you blog! It was cool to be an American. Or, as some say, "What are you doing?" Conversation on Rathlin Island about accent, dialect and attitudes to language. Sounds To me as an American who speaks Swedish and can understand some dialects of Norwegian, it always sounded like these folks were speaking Swedish with a Californian accent.
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Belfast people’s love of adding a string of unnecessary words to a conversation is rarely clearer than with this common phrase. The key word here is actually “past”. Movie threatre-It's called a Cinema here. And it has made headway in the US, as in the classic Valley Girl accent (“I was driving to the mall?
Discussion about what ‘local’ means to them, close-knit local community, social life and community activities in local area. "I replied, "That's because you're Welsh and I'm Irish!" One of my German friends had a cute little lilt in her accent in German. I find language comes VERY easy to me.
By far, I see the youth reaching out to many other cultures and ideologies…again older folks tend to stay with the familiar thus the influence of other cultures, languages and styles of speech tend to spread slower …if at all.
In the 1830s, Ordnance Survey memoirs came to the following conclusion about the dialect of the inhabitants of Carnmoney, east Antrim: Their accent is peculiarly, and among old people disagreeably, strong and broad. In a study of the intonation of different accents, for example, the researchers found an upward inflection in Belfast of over 83% of declarative statements. Dickson, Alice, 1949 March 26- (speaker, female, catering assistant), McAvoy, Anna, 1947 Nov. 27- (speaker, female, office manager), Hoy, Patricia, 1954 March 10- (speaker, female), Garrett, Conor, 1972 May 08- (speaker, male). Norn Iron “Northern Ireland,” but spoken by someone with a wonderfully strong Belfast accent. Why, then, do some accents require different types of intonation to communicate? Mention words/phrases used by young people locally, more local words including words for various baked goods. The Belfast dialect is now becoming more frequently heard in towns and villages whose inhabitants would have traditionally spoken with a distinctively rural accent. This area includes the Glens of Antrim, where the last native Irish speakers of a dialect native to what is now Northern Ireland were to be found.
I didn't realize that Norn Iron was quite popular until I found, Belfastisms: My Struggle with the Belfast Accent, Memories of Murder – like a particularly corrupt episode of Line of Duty with added comedy entrances (QFT until Sun 26 Sep), Asking the right questions for a better-informed public, The WhyNotSmile Guide To The Northern Ireland Assembly. I had heard a (female) Scottish movie director being interviewed on BBC World News a while ago and she had major uptalk (she was from Edinburgh, if I recollect correctly), and I thought two things: (a) what a shame that Valley Girl-dom has spread to such an extent that this woman has assimilated uptalk, and (b) “I should find this link and send it to Dialect Blog, as it’s just the kind of thing that would be of interest there.” (But lethargy won that battle).
The morphology and syntaxof Irish is quite different from that of English, and it has influenced both Northern and Southern Hiberno-English to some degree. Conversation in Omagh about accent, dialect and attitudes to language.
oh scratch that!
: An expression, translated as “Get a hold of yourself!”, “Wise up!” Clinker: Similar to Beezer. But as you say the majority of people dont actually talk like that.
*Important note: “upspeak” or “uptalk” is often used to refer to different types of intonational patterns. You're somewhere in the middle. Irish has separate forms for the second person singular (tú) and the second person plural (sibh), (“thou” and “ye” respectively in archaic and some intimate, informal English).
Post was not sent - check your email addresses! We started to welcome the world to our great city – and the world started to come and enjoy themselves. This West Ulster variety of Ulster Scots is considered to be quite similar to the Scots spoken in Ayrshire in south-west Scotland. Juice box-it's juice carton, or carton of juice.
I was, and now my friend Hannah and I are off to Belfast for sixteen weeks to study at Queens University. A different pronunciation and extended meaning of “queer”. Londonderry and surroundings. "Take that ball away da fuck before I stick my toe up your hole ya wee bastard ."
You can change these settings at any time. Pronounced “crack.” Used to ask if there’s any fun You can book your Belfast City Sightseeing tour easily here, Check our some more Belfastisms at Belfast In Your Pocket. Discussion about Sandy Row area of Belfast where they all come from, how it has changed over time, how local industry has disappeared, what Sandy Row was like in the past. My real encounter with actual spiedy talk (working class Belfast accent) was when I was picked up at the airport by Craig's family. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. To buy a bikini?”)*. Speech in the whole of Ireland is for instance rhotic – that is speakers pronounce an
THAT, I believe, is the spread of upspeak… simply cross pollination of cultures with a helping of tolerance towards the non-dominant cultures. I find it a form of group identification and search for inclusivity. Dublin and Belfast are a hundred miles apart, so of course they're going to have different accents.
[00:10:40] Discussion about local speech, whether Protestants in local area speak differently to Catholics, how they feel about Catholics living in Sandy Row, what influences their own speech, mention local words/phrases. Last weekend I learned a new one used to describe people from Belfast: "Frankie", i.e. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog: Arrr, Matey! These districts are strongly Ulster Scots-influenced, and Scots pronunciation of words is often heard. I like the Belfast accent but find some varieties very difficult to understand, but that's probably because I don't hear them as often as other accents and haven't had a chance to develop my ear for them.. 3 1. Well, my North American-centric bias got a kick in the pants from this post.
If you watch some clips of the film “Kes”, you’ll see what I mean by lack of intonation. People were ostracized by society if one didn’t drop one’s originating culture to become an American. Powered by. I see that now. Statistical breakdown of deaths in the Troubles of Northern Ireland 1969 – 2001, Irish National Liberation Army ( I.N.L.A ), Irish Republican Army. One problem soon became clear – our accent!
De l’autre les nationalistes, républicains, catholiques, se considérant totalement Irlandais. What’s interesting is that, as per the study I linked to above, Belfast English relies on intonation very little to create meaning. They’re phonetically and functionally very different.” So apparently this is a different animal than valspeak and Antipodean uptalk?
Irish has separate forms for the second person singular (tú) and the second person plural (sibh), (“thou” and “ye” respectively in archaic and some intimate, informal English). Im from dublin, and find it hard to understand the northern accent, however they probably feel the same way. I’m gone to tell my little brother, that he should also pay a quick visit this blog on regular basis to get updated from most up-to-date reports. In the U.S., is it influenced by Valley Speak?
“It also seems common in Northern English and Scottish accents”. A life in Northern Ireland, thoughts from the edge of Europe.
Ok my background outlined, as a person who does “upspeak” I can explain where MINE came from. I just finished watching the marathon “Monarch of the Glen” (five out of seven years’ worth), and the heroine, a native speaker of Glaswegian, uses it frequently in declarative sentences. You can read it at:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belfast-Laughter-1957-1977-Alan-Croft/dp/1634134095, Awesome Inc. theme. Upspeak obviously isn’t confined to Belfast or Northern Ireland. Maybe it's a term used in certain circles? I live in Belfast and yeah I don't get how all you American people are in love with our accents.
A variety of Ulster Scots is spoken in these areas. Be a ‘Stepford wife’ (see movie “Stepford Wives”) or you are not a ‘real’ patriot/American…and if you are noty a patriot you should leave the US because you didn’t deserve it. Legal and ethical usage ». Disillusioned following an unsuccessful 13 years of trying to teach the people of Reading, Berkshire to speak with a Belfast accent he packed up his digital alarm clock radio and headed to Canada. and so to cut down on costs students will go out and buy a bottle of wine or a The Origins of the Pirate Accent, a study of the intonation of different accents, Arrr, Matey!
Some of the vocabulary used among young people in Ulster, such as the word "spide", is of Belfast origin. “Ach go on”, “Ach you know?” Aye: Yes; Bake: Mouth/face.
It’s not across-the-board – I for one never use it – but it’s more and more common among the younger crowd, and I’ve heard it for at least the past 20 years.
However, it has parallels in both Goidelic (e.g.
His stepdad was … Still, I have to say I would not have guessed "dander" was "take a walk."
Rivalled only by Glasgow, come to think of it. BBC warning: this interview contains language which some may find offensive. Verbal syncretism is extremely widespread, as is the Northern subject rule.
Note also the phrase “Give her the guttie” meaning “Step on it (accelerate)”.
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