Has anyone ever remarked on your Irish accent

Wall E

At home or abroad, people seem to like it, although sometimes I reckon it's the Northern one they think of Any stories guys ?
Edit : Forgot to add my story. Two weeks ago I was talking to a Swedish guy, he was sound, and I said I'm surprised you didn't think I was English as most foreigners can think this when they hear you speaking English. He said no it was really easy to see I was Irish with the accent

Mena

Had a nice American lady comment on mine at the American embassy a few months ago. Pity I'm South African!

Mickeroo

Americans and Australians seem to like it.

Benny_Cake

Wall E wrote: »

At home or abroad, people seem to like it, although sometimes I reckon it's the Northern one they think of Any stories guys ?

I once met a group of Swiss people in South East Asia who tried to convince me that I couldn't possibly be Irish as my accent didn't fit into whatever idea of an Irish accent they had. Given that the only Irish accents in film tend to be northern, northside Dublin or potato munching 19th century peasant I can hardly blame them.

Princess Peach

I live in Canada, they LOVE it. I get compliments all the time, people said they could listen to me for hours. Which is amazing cause I talk a whole lot of crap a lot of the time.

Got it a whole lot when I lived in the states before too.

starlit

I've been told mine is flat!

TeddyTedson

A lot of counties seem to like it alright, but none more so than our nearest and dearest neighbors, in particular women from around London.

Caiseoipe19

I've had people comment on my 'British' accent...I've no link to the UK whatsoever and would be a of a nationalist myself so I now put 'h's in the middle of words to try and cover the accent.

Mickeroo

Princess Peach wrote: »

I live in Canada, they LOVE it. I get compliments all the time, people said they could listen to me for hours. Which is amazing cause I talk a whole lot of crap a lot of the time.

Got it a whole lot when I lived in the states before too.

Quite a few folks thought I was canadian when I was abroad and also met a fair few Canadians who were mistaken for Irish too. Think it could be the Newfoundland accent that does it, or maybe Nova Scotia.

steddyeddy

Got it in the states plenty of times. Really does well with the women!

Princess Peach

Mickeroo wrote: »

Quite a few folks thought I was canadian when I was abroad and also met a fair few Canadians who were mistaken for Irish too. Think it could be the Newfoundland accent that does it, or maybe Nova Scotia.

I live in Newfoundland, accent is similar enough to Irish. Sometimes I can't really tell if a person is Irish or from the bay!

janja

I'm always asked what part of Canada i am from :eek: always!

admiralofthefleet

an english girl did in greece years ago, saying that she loved it. ended up riding her that night

Where To

Aye shurley hiy.

Galwayguy35

English women seem to like it, was over in Liverpool recently for a weekend and they told us they loved the Irish accent.

lividduck

Accent? vot accent, I zont haff no accent:D

At Christmas last year in England with the boyfriend's family, we were laughing about how his American boss can't pronounce my name nor understand much of what I say, boyfriend's gran remarked "Yeah, but you have a really, really Irish accent, you know?"

northernpower

Yeah it goes down well alright, I work in a bar in Cardiff and the english and welsh love it,

If i'm serving a tidy wan at the bar i'll lay it on right and thick

Burky126

Living abroad in Wales the past few months and it's usually the first thing anyone mentions when I talk to them.I've never been really conscience of my accent but its really jarring compared to the mix of different dialects of British accents I hear.

Only thing about this is sometimes they want me to say thirty three and two thirds which was funny the first 3 times...I haven't necessarily been lucky with it.Methinks I should of went to the States instead :rolleyes:

Sar_Bear

Talkin to a Dub once, told him I was from Tipp, and he said, " I know, you have a Templemore accent"

Thought twas a bit weird he got it so specific.

An American was onced shocked I was able to speak english, being Irish and all...

Domo230

Domo230 wrote: »

Well how do you pronounce your name

Is it pronounced like budgeys????

No, it rhymes with Fabreeze! :mad:

Mickeroo

Deleted User wrote: »

At Christmas last year in England with the boyfriend's family, we were laughing about how his American boss can't pronounce my name nor understand much of what I say, boyfriend's gran remarked "Yeah, but you have a really, really Irish accent, you know?"

Siobhan? Aoife? Sinead? Niamh?

Heard loads of people have trouble with those

Ellis Dee

My late uncle worked in Ford's of Dagenham for decades. Once, after he'd been in England for 30 years or so, an English fellow in a pub asked him: "'Ere Paddy, how come you never lost your Irish accent?":).

My uncle replied: "Sure I never found a better one!":D:D

mrsdewinter

Yeah, once when I was in the States - they thought I had a very singsong accent. I don't think it's all that musical - it's just that my voice is very light and quite high-pitched.
On accents, I remember a few years ago a situation where a contingent from the London office descended on our office for a few weeks. One of the women was - we worked out, from her accent, Irish - and one of my colleagues, while chatting to her, asked casually, 'By the way, what part of Ireland are you from?'
She practically turned white with rage because somebody had rumbled her Irish roots after all her years in Lahndan.
Of course, it turned out that she was really from Meath, so she came with a *lot* of baggage.

saa

Mickeroo wrote: »

Siobhan? Aoife? Sinead? Niamh?

It's pronounced Shy-oh-bon actually
Aye-oh-fee
Sign-add
and Neeam-huh

All with the second name Byrne
pronounced BIRON!

mikemac1

No such thing as a Tipperary accent, it's all very neutral
Nobody has ever said you've a difficult to understand accent

Yet a taximan in Dublin asked me where I was from and I didn't sound Irish???
And this was the afternoon, no drink taken.
Maybe the taximan was the one with the drink taken

Can't understand how that happened

ShadowHearth

I a foreigner and I am getting a cork/ northern Ireland accent. Everyone who knows me love it!

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

Siobhan? Aoife? Sinead? Niamh?

Heard loads of people have trouble with those

Deirdre - of all easy enough names to pronounce ffs! Thing was, he'd seen it written before he heard it pronounced. Then when he asked me how to pronounce it, turned out he couldn't understand the Irish accent at all. Bless.

Sar_Bear

mikemac1 wrote: »

No such thing as a Tipperary accent, it's all very neutral
:

I've been told several times there's a tipp accent, though I don't hear it myself. Lots of people I've met have guessed where I'm from from my accent.

mikemac1

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I a foreigner and I am getting a cork/ northern Ireland accent.

Cork and nordie?

Jaysus, sounds painful :pac:

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Everyone who knows me love it!

They were just being nice to your face and didn't want to hurt your feelings

Sorry

stinkle

mikemac1 wrote: »

No such thing as a Tipperary accent, it's all very neutral

srsly?

EDIT:should probably expand, know a fair few Tipp people (living in Dublin) and used to go there on hols, and ok, there probably isn't a specific accent exclusive to the county but it sounds to me like the "authentic " non-Dub, non-Nordie non-Cork Irish accent a lot of actors in movies/TV shows attempt. Like a default Irish accent!

ted1

I've got plenty of action using my Irish accent. Americans, Finnish, English, Icelandics, Japanese, spainish

Larianne

In a store in Chicago, the sales assistant asked where I was from. I replied Ireland.

She commented that my accent was so good.

Sorry I say.

You speak our language so well she says. :rolleyes:

I laughed all the way up Michigan Avenue. Idiot.

I can recognise a Tipp accent, oddly. I'm from Wexford myself.

markie29

my cavan accent has netted me a nice venezuelan chica!....who would have thought it eh? and she says my accent melts her ...wohoo

stimpson

On the piss in London one night with an english friend and her mates. Her sister tells me that my accent makes her moist.

I spent the night whispering "Tirty tree and a tird" in her ear in the hope of a shag.

mikemac1

Sar_Bear wrote: »

I've been told several times there's a tipp accent, though I don't hear it myself. Lots of people I've met have guessed where I'm from from my accent.

Well, possibly that does be the way you do be talking, you know like well
People do be hearing it as you do be speaking. Tis the way


Maybe but tbh, Offaly and Kilkenny are much the same
Laois too, it's nothing special


Now down around Carrick on Suir they talk like those deise yahoos :pac:

OneArt

German people always remark on my Dutch accent.

I have never been to the Netherlands, nor can I speak Dutch.

ted1

OneArt wrote: »

German people always remark on my Dutch accent.

I have never been to the Netherlands, nor can I speak Dutch.

The good old Irish and hollish mix up. Had it happen a few times

mikemac1

stinkle wrote: »

EDIT:should probably expand, know a fair few Tipp people (living in Dublin) and used to go there on hols, and ok, there probably isn't a specific accent exclusive to the county but it sounds to me like the "authentic " non-Dub, non-Nordie non-Cork Irish accent a lot of actors in movies/TV shows attempt. Like a default Irish accent!

You've explained it better then I ever could

PseudoFamous

I have a bastard child of an Arklow and Balbriggan accent, so people often ask me where I'm from.

stinkle

mikemac1 wrote: »

You've explained it better then I ever could

bahaha! should also include the non-country-girl-whos-just-moved-to-a-city-"neutral"-accent accent! Know a few Mayo heads who insist they have a "neutral" accent but actually they actively try to sound D4! Embrace the local accents I say :pac:

Laika1986

American girls love it,one girl just asked me to tell her a story, jez she was soaking

PseudoFamous

PseudoFamous wrote: »

I have a bastard child of an Arklow and Balbriggan accent, so people often ask me where I'm from.

I grew up in Wexford, moved to south Dublin and picked up a posh accent, then years later I moved to Balbriggan and suddenly, when people asked how old I was, I was "twenty noine". I pick up accents easily. Now I'm back in south Dublin with a few country flatmates I'm from Wexford again.

beano345

all the time here in toronto all i hear is "i love your accent" works wonders

tuxy

Sar_Bear wrote: »

I've been told several times there's a tipp accent, though I don't hear it myself. Lots of people I've met have guessed where I'm from from my accent.

Of course there is a Tipp accent, every town in Tipp has a different one.
I'm over in London and people usually tell I'm Irish and even list many counties they know I'm not from. But I have yet to find someone who got it right.
Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.

woodoo

tuxy wrote: »

Of course there is a Tipp accent, every town in Tipp has a different one.
I'm over in London and people usually tell I'm Irish and even list many counties they know I'm not from. But I have yet to find someone who got it right.
Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.

The Kinninaskully accent.

mikemac1

tuxy wrote: »

Also because of the flat accent Tipp people tend to pick up other accents fast.

True, very true

Nodin

Wall E wrote: »

At home or abroad, people seem to like it, although sometimes I reckon it's the Northern one they think of Any stories guys ?
Edit : Forgot to add my story. Two weeks ago I was talking to a Swedish guy, he was sound, and I said I'm surprised you didn't think I was English as most foreigners can think this when they hear you speaking English. He said no it was really easy to see I was Irish with the accent

I have been in the position where people have done the 'I.CANNOT.UNDERSTAND.YOU.' thing.

beks101

All the time, it's quite a handy tool when you're abroad I think.

Depending on where you're from though I think you need to be strategic about your accent - we tend to talk ridiculously quick and swear a hell of a lot, and I've met a few Irish over here who have such strong (usually Cork or Dub) accents that Canadians just stand there with a confused expression on their faces when they talk.

I talk far slower here when I'm at work and swear about 5% of what I usually would at home. They lap it up though, I hear 'what a charming accent!' at least once a day:)

watna

They love it in NZ - always getting compliments on it. It comes in handy because I've a job where I deal with people's salaries and I often have to say no to pay increases and things. I've been told it's easier hearing it because I have a nice accent!!

I think my accent is quite mild but apparently you can tell straight away that it is Irish - when I was home last my friends said they could hear a kiwi twang in it. I need to watch that before I start looking for fush and chips and saying know-an and show-an instead of known and shown!

I've had to slow down though because I was talking to fast. I deal with someone from Dublin o the phone every so often and people say they can't understand me at all when they hear me talking to him.