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[sub82]

Just getting this together, did we ever decide on a club name or is everyone happy with Belfast Homebrewers?

I liked Il Tubo's suggestion of "Big Fish Brewers"!

[matthewdick23]

lol, yeah i'm easy.

[iain_todd]

I reckon we should go for Farset Brewers. Just to make it a bit different. Or perhaps Gresham Street Brewers?

[Bazza]

G8 Summat Brewers.

Topical and shite at the same time.

I was out for a few beers last night and some lad from Enniskillen was dissing me about being from Tyrone. I pointed out that G8 was great for the people of Fermanagh - they learned a letter and a number !

-Barry

[Bill_00]

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[Bazza]

I'm guessing a Belfast lad would know you're not from around?

I've been living in Belfast for 21 of my 40 years and I still get called a culchie.

Yep. You wouldn't believe the differences in accents between the 6 counties.
Tyrone people have a tendency to add a 'y' after consonants such as 'C' and 'G'. For example, we're careful to avoid the cyat when parking the cyar in gyarage.

Derry (i.e. Derry-Londonderry) people add vowels where they're not needed i.e. taaak on the pho-ann. Us westerners also have the unnecessary calling of everyone 'Sir' and 'Boss' and ending every sentence with 'Hi'.

Antrim people tend to get more Scottish the farther north they live.

Right, I think that's only Down and Armagh people left to annoy...


-Barry

[Bill_00]

Armagh is a bit of a Derry/Tyrone hybrid.

The consonants of Tyrone along with the "Hi" and "Bi" of Derry

[Bill_00]

Not so much Belfast, but in the well-to-do suburb parts, yeah. Hollywood and Cheery Vellay especially.

The Nualla McKeever sketch springs to mind (Not even the birds say cheap in Cherry Valley)

[iain_todd]

I've noticed people from tyrone would do the phow-un (instead of 'phone') thing. I always assumed it was because Tyrone is pronounced Tir-Owan in Gaelic, and therefore that vowel sound was extended in Tyrone people's every day speech.

There are definitely class tell-tale signs. A typical one is the word 'Belfast'. Most people stress the 'Bel' syllable, but posh people from the Malone Road or from Holywood might put the stress on the 'fast' part.

The other one is that vowel sound used in 'face' or 'space'. Most people pronounce it like 'feeyass', whereas more middle class people would pronounce it 'fayce'.

There's also the classic 'h' thing - Catholics stereotypically pronounce the 'h' at the beginning of the word for 'h', whereas Protestants supposedly leave it off, and begin the word with a sharp glottal sound.

Speaking of glottal stops - that's another one. Antrim people typically use them. So when saying butter, I would pronounce the Ts like Ds, but someone from Antrim would pronounce that blank, glottal stop sound - so like 'bu - er'

I love all this shit!

[Bazza]

Funny you should mention the 'h'  - 'eitch' or 'haitch' thing. I'm in a mixed marriage so teaching the kids the alphabet can be amusing for us if not confusing for the kids

Speaking of Dublin, I was sitting in a coffee shop in Rathmines (Raaathmoynes) one day a few years back and had to get up and leave because the group of young 20-something girls at the next table were doing my head in with their 'Coo-ee', 'Oh Ya, ya' and 'See you mwah mwah'. My girlfriend at the time reckoned they were skangers from Rathgar.


My fault, really, for being in a coffee shop.


-Barry

[Bazza]

I've noticed people from tyrone would do the phow-un (instead of 'phone') thing.

They must be from Strabane.

-Barry

[iain_todd]

Nah, a friend of mine from Omagh does the 'phow-un' thing. But then I've another friend from the Moy and he doesn't. Who knows, basically?


'Mary' is another one. When I first started going out with my gf, her mum's friend was called 'Mary', and they pronounced it 'meeary'. So I did too.

Then one day it clicked - her name was 'Mary' and they were pronouncing it differently. So I said to Tamsin: "Is her name actually just Mary, and you're pronouncing it 'meeary', or is her name actually 'meeary'?"


Tamsin just looked at me, as if to say "you absolute eejit".



But then when I heard her pronounce even the cocktail 'bloody meeary' I couldn't help but say "now you're just taking the piss!"

Us middle-class protestants. So sheltered.

[Bill_00]

Married...or "Mawreed" is a Derry one

[Bazza]

Do you find you change your accent depending on who you're talking to?

For example, my missus always laughs about how I seamlessly adopt a thick culchie accent when chatting with mates from down home. From software engineer to bogman with 1 ring of the phone.

South Tyrone - where you pronounce French car names exactly as they're spelled, or get a kicking. There's no place for your fancy Renoe or Pergeo down here!


-Barry

[Bill_00]

A guy I used to work with, his accent got thicker and thicker the more he drank.

Yer man from Torchwood...Barrowman? I saw some show he was one where he was on the phone to his parents and he lapsed back into a broad Glasgow accent...was hilarious!