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usually monophthongs outside of Dublin: [boÐt],
and [keÐn]
Pronunciation (4)
" The /aj/ in "night" may be pronounced in a
wide variety of ways: [Yj], [Tj], [Œj] and [Qj]
" The /Tj/ in "boy" may be
pronounced [QÐj] (i.e. the vowel
of thought plus a y) in conservative accents
" In some varieties, speakers make no
distinction between the [Œ] in putt and
the [Š] in put, pronouncing both as the latter
Pronunciation (5)
" In some highly conservative varieties, words
spelled with ea and pronounced with [iÐ] in RP
are pronounced with [eÐ]: meat, beat.
" Any and many is pronounced to rhyme
with nanny, Danny by very many speakers, i.e.
with /a/.
" /ej/ often becomes /[/ in words such
as gave and came (becoming "gev" and "kem")
Pronunciation (6)
" Consonant clusters ending in /j/ often change.
 /dj/ becomes /d’/, e.g. dew/due, duke and duty sound like "jew",
"jook" and "jooty".
 /tj/ becomes /tƒ/, e.g. tube is "choob", tune is "choon
Irish English also always uses the alveolar or "light" L sound, as
opposed to other English dialects which use a velar or "dark" L in
word-final position. WALL, BALL
" The naming of the letter H as "haitch" is standard, while the
letter R is called "or", the letter A is often pronounced "ah", and the
letter Z is often referred to as "e-zed" in working-class Dublin
accents or parodies of same.
" Some words like the English word for movie "film" become "fillum"
in Irish speech.
Main features
"  How to do an Irish accent
"  The Snapper : Note the pronunciation of the
following words and phrases 
" Pole, know, out, shit, baby, what, anyway, who,
remember, slut, coming, poor, (al)right, anyone, idiot,
like, toilet, Jesus, thing
" Not at all
" Give a little, helps a lot
" She drinks a nifty pint
" After getting herself up the pole
" Move it, will yis [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]