Accents: Northern Irish

Anna introduces Joel from Northern Ireland, exploring the Northern Irish accent. The video covers common phrases, vowel sounds, diphthongs, rotic sounds, and unique pronunciations like the final plosive. Joel demonstrates how these elements differ from standard British English, providing examples and explanations throughout.

What does the Northern Irish phrase 'What's the crack?' mean?

• What's your name?

• Where are you?

• How are you?

• What's going on?

In the Northern Irish accent, how is the long vowel 'ah' sound pronounced in the word 'calm'?

• Cam

• Calm

• Came

• Com

Which of the following words demonstrates the Northern Irish diphthong 'owl'?

• How

• Hat

• Hot

• Hit

How is the 'R' sound treated differently in Northern Irish compared to standard British English?

• It is more rhotic.

• It is silent.

• It is pronounced as 'L'.

• It is omitted completely.

In Northern Irish, how is the 'Ng' sound in 'walking' pronounced?

• Walkin

• Walken

• Walkang

• Walkung

What happens to the final 'T' sound in words like 'cat' in Northern Irish?

• It is stopped with the tongue.

• It is pronounced clearly.

• It is omitted completely.

• It is replaced with 'D'.

How does Joel pronounce the words 'poor', 'pour', and 'pore'?

• All the same

• None of the above

• All differently

• Two the same, one different