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What is the one key difference in telling an English, Scottish and Irish person apart?
All three of them can instantly tell each other apart so are there specific words one should listen for?
Of course the accents are different, but if you can't place the accent are there other tells?
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>>78464590
English people generally drop the R sounds from words depending on the region. Water becomes wateh. If they're from the south they sometimes add an r where it shouldn't be like in the word "law" (sounding like "lawr"). Scottish people have a tapped r that usually gives them away and use things like wee or ach. Irish people generally don't pronounce the "th" sound, we just go with a plain old "t" sound.
Irish people also use an inverted way of speaking English, informed by Irish. For example, we use "do be" as the present continuous form of "to be" whereas the English/Scots just use the normal "to be". That's just an example but it tends to happen with other parts of the language too:
>Proper English
He is always drinking
>Irish English
He does always be drinking
>Proper English
I have already had something to drink
>Irish English
I'm just after having a drink
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excuse me you are forgetting the Welsh
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>>78465286
Is it true that some younger Irish people sound slightly like Americans?
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ye mate shag ye mum shank ya dyou know what a mean football, yeah
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>>78471580
Yes especially around south Dublin
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