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The Jewel in the Irish Accent Crown

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  • 02-04-2015 2:14am
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    snow scorpion
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    Up the Kingdom!



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    I am not sure I have heard a Kerry person place a "h" after an "s" in the way he does, where the "s" is followed by a vowel, "so", "Sunday" etc. Where the "s" is followed by a consonant, you get it alright, "wesht", "Chrisht", "shtop" and so on.


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    snow scorpion
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I am not sure I have heard a Kerry person place a "h" after an "s" in the way he does, where the "s" is followed by a vowel, "so", "Sunday" etc. Where the "s" is followed by a consonant, you get it alright, "wesht", "Chrisht", "shtop" and so on.

    Interesting. I'll have to pay more attention to Kerry folk and where they put there h's from now on.


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    snow scorpion
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I am not sure I have heard a Kerry person place a "h" after an "s" in the way he does, where the "s" is followed by a vowel, "so", "Sunday" etc. Where the "s" is followed by a consonant, you get it alright, "wesht", "Chrisht", "shtop" and so on.

    I've been noticing what you said since your post and it seems to me that you're right most of the time.

    There does seem to be an exception -- sort of -- to the vowel rule: I was watching The Guard and noticed Brendan Gleeson pronouncing "used" as "yoosht" and "supposed" as "supposht" (Kalnikov was supposht to be over the hill.) But I guess that's because no one pronounces the "e" in those words anyway.


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