Stan Carey · @stancarey
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Edited an article with the text "a HR meeting" and left the "a" intact. In Irish English the name of the letter H is aspirated: "haitch" rather than "aitch".
This is deeply controversial in some quarters, as I reported here: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/11/19/an-aitch-or-a-haitch-lets-ear-it/
#language #linguistics #phonetics #speech #sociolinguistics #IrishEnglish #dialect #editing #haitch
#language #linguistics #phonetics #speech #sociolinguistics #irishenglish #dialect #editing #haitch
Stan Carey · @stancarey
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Interesting piece on developing Irish Alexa via 'voice disentanglement', though some details seem off: I've seldom if ever heard anyone say 'bath' like 'bat' or 'bad', and the 'r' sound in Irish English is not 'overpronounced' – it's just pronounced, unlike in non-rhotic accents
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/technology/amazon-alexa-irish.html/ #language #linguistics #accent #Alexa #IrishEnglish #dialect #speech #generativeAI #Amazon
#language #linguistics #accent #alexa #irishenglish #dialect #speech #generativeAI #amazon
Stan Carey · @stancarey
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A few thoughts on Americanisms in Irish English, and the tricky case of 'mom':
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2023/05/21/mom-vs-mam-and-americanisms-in-irish-english/
#language #dialect #linguistics #IrishEnglish #Mastodaoine #Americanisms
#language #dialect #linguistics #irishenglish #mastodaoine #americanisms
Stan Carey · @stancarey
1024 followers · 600 posts · Server mastodon.ieTwo related posts of mine: on folk etymology as a linguistic phenomenon: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/folk-etymology-from-hiccup-to-hiccough/
and on the Irish word "plámás", roughly equivalent to "curry favour": https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/plamas/
#language #etymology #IrishEnglish #words
#language #etymology #irishenglish #words
Stan Carey · @stancarey
848 followers · 321 posts · Server mastodon.ieA line of dialogue by Eilís Dillon, "Wasn't it herself told me ye were coming today", inspired an essay I wrote on #IrishEnglish for the Stinging Fly, abridged here in the Irish Times:
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/wasn-t-it-herself-told-me-which-bit-of-ireland-would-that-phrase-come-from-1.4434174
#language #dialect #grammar #Ireland #Mastodaoine #linguistics
#irishenglish #language #dialect #grammar #ireland #mastodaoine #linguistics
Mignon Fogarty · @grammargirl
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I always enjoy the posts @stancarey writes about Irish English. Grand. Codding. Culchie. And more.
#linguistics #IrishEnglish #WordNerd #dialect
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/10-more-words-from-irish-english-dialect/
#linguistics #irishenglish #wordnerd #dialect
Stan Carey · @stancarey
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Grand, culchie, haitch, do be: 10 words in #IrishEnglish
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/12/19/10-more-words-from-irish-english-dialect/ #dialect #language
#irishenglish #dialect #language
Stan Carey · @stancarey
327 followers · 67 posts · Server mastodon.ie'Ah sure, you know yourself.' Headline's a bit misleading, but this is a good article on politeness and indirectness in #IrishEnglish #speech
#language #linguistics #Ireland #Mastodaoine #research #politeness #pragmatics
#irishenglish #speech #language #linguistics #ireland #mastodaoine #research #politeness #pragmatics
Nyx · @NyxCassiopee
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