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Features Of An Irish Accent

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How to Tell a Lancashire Accent

In general, I think I can always tell an Irish accent because of the vowel sounds. They're softer, they're sometimes shorter. Like, I'd say calm, but you'd say... Cam. It doesn't feel natural to me. Maybe I need a bone prop as well. So we've got time and film, film and... Mm-hmm. You sound Irish now. Brilliant. The Lancashire say that too, don't they? Right. Now, actually Lancashire would still say calm. They still be long, calm. There are shorter vowels. This switch between ah and ah is the same for American English. But it's things like bath

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