Is Northern Ireland accent different?

There isn’t one Northern Ireland accent. Belfast is completely different from Fermanagh, where they don’t talk, they sing. Antrim sounds pretty Scottish to almost everyone.

Why does Northern Ireland have a different accent?

Scots, Irish Gaelic, 17th century English and Hiberno-English (the English spoken in the Republic of Ireland) have all influenced the development of Northern Irish English, and this mixture explains the very distinctive hybrid that has emerged.

What does Belfast mean in Irish?

The name Belfast derives from the Irish Béal Feirsde, later spelt Béal Feirste (Irish pronunciation: [bʲeːlˠ ˈfʲɛɾˠ(ə)ʃtʲə]) The word béal means “mouth” or “river-mouth” while feirsde/feirste is the genitive singular of fearsaid and refers to a sandbar or tidal ford across a river’s mouth.

Where is the heaviest Irish accent?

The phone company conducted a survey which found that the hardest accent in Ireland to understand was that of Donegal.

Is the Northern Irish accent hard to understand?

A very thick Northern Irish accent can be tricky to understand even for a native English speaker. It sounds like an extra “y” is added after every vowel, and spoken quickly it can be hard to decipher. Most versions of the accent are easier to follow, though.

Is the Northern Irish accent more dominant than the southern Irish accent?

You are correct the Northern Irish also know as Scots Irish arrived on the America frontier from lt 1690s through to 1770s. So in a large part the Northern Irish accent is more dominant in American English than Southern Irish accent. Thanks for contributing an answer to English Language & Usage Stack Exchange!

Are the Northern Irish also known as the Scots-Irish?

You are correct the Northern Irish also know as Scots Irish arrived on the America frontier from lt 1690s through to 1770s. So in a large part the Northern Irish accent is more dominant in American English than Southern Irish accent. @Johny The northern Irish are not also known as the Scots-Irish.

Why don’t Americans pronounce Irish words the same as Americans?

Everybodyspeaking English pronounced things like (2) and (3) three and four hundred years ago, when America was first settled. The Irish and the Americans simply haven’t changed their pronunciation. If you listen closely, you’ll find that the actual vowels used before ‘r’s are quite different in the U.S. than in Ireland. – Peter Shor

How similar is the Irish language to our local English?

There are many points of similarity between our local way of speaking and the English spoken in Ireland: intonation patterns, pronunciation, etc. The influence comes not only from northern Ireland. – TRomano Nov 30 ’14 at 13:55 Add a comment | -1