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Do Sligoians Have The Worst Accent In Ireland?

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    #62
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,078 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Yes, oh go yes!
    Scraggs wrote: »
    I love the Sligo accent! Happy out, hey :)

    Finally, things are coming up almightycushion.


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    #63
    Acid_Violet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Acid_Violet


    Yes, oh go yes!
    Surely the Cork accent is the worst in Ireland. Even if you remove the arrogance and smugness of their general message, their voices are still hideous to the normal human ear.


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    #64
    36Degrees
    Registered Users Posts: 50 ✭✭36Degrees


    Yes, oh go yes!
    wicklow accents are awful.


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    #65
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,096 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Yes, oh go yes!
    There is no Sligo accent. There is scumbag and generic Irish accent which doesn't allow poeple to be able to tell where you are from.


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    #66
    JIZZLORD
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    There is no Sligo accent. There is scumbag and generic Irish accent which doesn't allow poeple to be able to tell where you are from.
    kinda true, some of your ransboro neighbours have awful culchie accents


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    #67
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    MooseJam wrote: »
    no knacker dubs do

    I wholeheartedly concur, the Northside knacker's accent with it's lazy nasal drone is the wost I have EVER heard.


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    #68
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    kinda true, some of your ransboro neighbours have awful culchie accents

    I wouldn't have associated with them before, I doubt you would be able to tell they were from rural Sligo when listening to them.

    I've yet to meet somebody that could say I was from Sligo, or even guess that I was from any County.


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    #69
    Basq
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I've yet to meet somebody that could say I was from Sligo, or even guess that I was from any County.
    Same as.. i've a very non-descript accent to be honest!


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    #70
    JIZZLORD
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I wouldn't have associated with them before, I doubt you would be able to tell they were from rural Sligo when listening to them.

    I've yet to meet somebody that could say I was from Sligo, or even guess that I was from any County.


    that's odd as you sound a lot like your brother o.0


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    #71
    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭TequilaMockingBird


    Townies, the lot of ye.


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    #72
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    that's odd as you sound a lot like your brother o.0

    I use bigger words. :p


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    #73
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Yes, oh go yes!
    takola wrote: »
    Exactly!

    *Looks for Hail* :D

    Ah it depends which part you're in! Certain areas are fairly brutal.

    Shhhhhad up!

    <_<


    >_>


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    #74
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Yes, oh go yes!
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    There is no Sligo accent. There is scumbag and generic Irish accent which doesn't allow poeple to be able to tell where you are from.

    QFT!


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    #75
    Mangy_Cat
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    Not very familiar with the Shligo accent. Wa day on way down country, stopped in Wexford petrol station to get a sangwich... Well, it was an experience to be sure. The wan behind the counter pure Irish thoroughbred but spoke a foreign language. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

    Ah-Lone locals are fair bad.

    Same with Ra- Hangin in Kildare.


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    #76
    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Yes, oh go yes!
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    That's enough out of you!

    How the hell do you prounouce early Tara? :eek:
    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    Shhhhhad up!

    <_<


    >_>

    I rest my case! :p


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    #77
    Balmed Out
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    Most people here have got to be from dublin, i thought everyone was agreed that its the worst accent in Ireland. In fact i dont like any leinster accent with the exception of parts of killkenny. I also dont like Waterford accents. Lot of people giving out about the cork accents but arent they watered down versions of a kerry accent.


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    #78
    indieJones
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    Have to say the worst accent in the Ireland is South Dublin/Wicklow. It just sounds so fake and pretentious. At least the more "difficult" accents of North Dublin, Cork etc don't sound put on.


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    #79
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    takola wrote: »
    How the hell do you prounouce early Tara? :eek:

    I pronounce the a, unlike everybody else.


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    #80
    flynnser19
    Registered Users Posts: 617 ✭✭✭flynnser19


    Damn Jackeens!
    scum bag dublin, drogheda and cavan all terrible!!!!
    i live in dundalk and the dundalk townie accent is the wordt


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    #81
    leninbenjamin
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    the title of the worst accent in Ireland is exclusively reserved for Dubs, in all its horrible mutations. end of.


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    #82
    Rossibaby
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    I use bigger words. :p


    are ya startin'???:D


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    #83
    Essexboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 778 ✭✭✭Essexboy


    Damn Jackeens!
    That is a Sligo TOWN accent. The country accent is different.


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    #84
    SarahSassy
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    Damn Jackeens!
    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    i never say boooooook, probably did when i was in primary school

    Boooooook makes phonetic sense, otherwise it would be buck. :confused:


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    #85
    SarahSassy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,145 ✭✭✭SarahSassy


    Damn Jackeens!
    Galway / Mayo - sounds like Brad Pitt in Snatch.


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    #86
    super_furry
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    Gotta be that horrible piercing whine that is the Cork accent.


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    #87
    Tar.Aldarion
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    Rossibaby wrote: »
    are ya startin'???:D

    Yes brother dearest, I am.


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    #88
    Kalashnikov_Kid
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    At least the Dundalk accent is a proper distinctive accent, not like that horrible fusion of the worst elements of both Dublin and country accents that you get alot in Drogheda and in many parts of Meath.

    If you're not convinced, go to rte.ie and search for Richard Dowling (from Athboy). How he got a broadcasting job is beyond me.

    My top 3: Drogheda
    Navan
    Any drunken Cork accent


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    #89
    sligobhoy67
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    Yes, oh go yes!
    Essexboy wrote: »
    That is a Sligo TOWN accent. The country accent is different.

    well I gat a rail Ssssligo towen axent man, An if ya do-int like it I'll burst yer snot!


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    #90
    Karlusss
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    Worst accent is Ardee.

    Just...

    Imagine someone saying "Ardee" in an Ardee accent... it's impossible to get this across in text. It is Ardee though.


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    #91
    galwayrush
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    Karlusss wrote: »
    Worst accent is Ardee.

    Just...

    Imagine someone saying "Ardee" in an Ardee accent... it's impossible to get this across in text. It is Ardee though.
    I have heard it.:eek:


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