Mervue accent?

eagle10

I can distinguish what I believe to be a Mervue Accent.
However my mother cant and she is old Galway.

Can anyone else tell a "mervue accent"?

Das Kitty

I'm from Mervue and I can't tell the difference between any of the east city accents.

I suppose your skill is like me being able to tell someone is Irish by looking at their mouth. I call it Irish-mouth.

seriouslysweet

It's rather nasal and they tend to say, 'I seen,' a lot. My uncle can both recognise and take off accents and this one and the Shantalla ones are the easiest to recognised. The, 'Doo-uisce,' and, 'Knock-na-caaaara,' ones where pretentiousness is merely being put on are the funniest in my opinion!

inisboffin

Sometimes I can hear it grand, but one time I completely mixed up a Claddagh accent with a Renmore one. Both people chatting had been away for a bit, but sounded identical to me!

Ficheall

Ye can tell whereabouts in Galway City people are from by their accent?
I didn't even think there was a Galway accent...

ErnieBert

The St James' Road accent is way posher than the the Cardinal Cushing Road accent.

Obviously.

johngalway

My girlfriend is from Mervue, she doesn't have "the accent" but can hear it, as well as those from Claddagh, Castlepark, and a couple of other places she mentioned but I've forgotten.

LadyMayBelle

Most definitely!! There is tendency to pronounce Mervue as Mer-voo (can't spell it exactly as it sounds!) and "I seen", "yer wan" and "bay-bee" is common as well. It can be nasaly, flat and high in tone. It can have a kind of snooty inclination at times, especially when it comes to the provision of local gossip.

I am originally from Mervue so don't shoot!

MargeS

inisboffin wrote: »

Sometimes I can hear it grand, but one time I completely mixed up a Claddagh accent with a Renmore one. Both people chatting had been away for a bit, but sounded identical to me!

Renmore inhabitants will love you for that.

inisboffin

MargeS wrote: »

Renmore inhabitants will love you for that.

I got into trouble then!
I didn't feel quite so bad as they had both lived abroad and that muddied it a bit. That's my story and I am sticking to it! Lol!

civis_liberalis

I am not a townie, but can find distinct differences between the accents of people from the different estates. Most of it is the words they use though. I might not always know which part they are from, but I would recognise it as different from the others.

FouxDaFaFa

MargeS wrote: »

Renmore inhabitants will love you for that.

I'm from Renmore and had no idea we have an "accent". That's hilarious. I wish I could be offended but have no idea of what a Claddagh accent might sound like.

Zillah

I'm from Dublin and I don't even nearly understand this conversation. Is there anyone famous with this accent?

inisboffin

Rita Ann Higgins is from Ballybrit if that is at all relevant

dapto1

civis_liberalis wrote: »

I am not a townie, but can find distinct differences between the accents of people from the different estates. Most of it is the words they use though. I might not always know which part they are from, but I would recognise it as different from the others.

*Skeptical face*

Keyser Söze

"Will ya buy me faaaaags?" "I'll bust your faaaace"

zero19

You all sound the same to me lads, with exceptions of course.

biko

There are just two Galway accents - the one I understand, and the other I don't understand.
Usually mumbling noises by older men.
I just wanna shout "speak up man!"

Fuinseog

Ficheall wrote: »

Ye can tell whereabouts in Galway City people are from by their accent?
I didn't even think there was a Galway accent...

its not that omnipresent due to all the blow ins but go into mcDonaghs and you will hear a strong Galway accent or go to any old man pub. i can't quite say how but I would recognise the difference between shantalla and mervue

Utopia Parkway

Ficheall wrote: »

I didn't even think there was a Galway accent...

There's definitely a Galway city accent although you actually don't notice it so much given the huge population of non-Galwegians in the city.

Hard to describe but it would be quite nasally sounding. Not an easy accent to imitate compared to say a Dublin, Cork or nordie accent for example. Although I remember Niall Tobin doing a decent Galway accent on occasion when he used to take off different Irish accents in his stand-up days.

topper75

Schtawp the lights loveen.

You don't hear the Gauwhl-way accent often enough these days.

An rud is annamh, is iontach.

Blowins have the town ruined, and I am fully aware of the irony of me, a Limericker, saying that. Doesn't make it less true.

howyanow

howya luveeeeeeeeennn??

Das Kitty

howyanow wrote: »

howya luveeeeeeeeennn??

Hiya, not howya.

I dunno if it's just a Mervue thing but if we were out playing and someone's mother was looking for them, one of the kids would shout out "XYZ! You're WANTED!"

LadyMayBelle

Das Kitty wrote: »

Hiya, not howya.

I dunno if it's just a Mervue thing but if we were out playing and someone's mother was looking for them, one of the kids would shout out "XYZ! You're WANTED!"

Definetly Hiya not Howya!

"Your mudder wants ya!" Maybe all Irish people do it, but Galway people cannot pronounce 'th' in mother and brother etc.

inisboffin

LadyMayBelle wrote: »

Definetly Hiya not Howya!

"Your mudder wants ya!" Maybe all Irish people do it, but Galway people cannot pronounce 'th' in mother and brother etc.

Lol! I'd say it's less 'Mudder' in some places and almost 'Motdtherr' with a ring to the 'r' - maybe that's one of the internal accent differences.

Owldshtok

Das Kitty wrote: »

Hiya, not howya.

I dunno if it's just a Mervue thing but if we were out playing and someone's mother was looking for them, one of the kids would shout out "XYZ! You're WANTED!"

From recalling different people saying it I'd say it's generaly 'Howya Luveen' for west of the corrib accents and 'Hiya Luveen' for east of it.

Liam Stentson could be the right one to make the call.In one of his columns in the late 80's/early 90's or sometime back in 'the galway observer' - a wednesday free paper of the time,he had a funny piece about 'whitesocks and loveens'!

thesandeman

Im from in between so I can definately say its 'hiya' for Mervue and 'howAya' for Claddagh. 'Howya Now' is town/west.
'Luveen' is pure Claddagh but it spread out a bit.