Accent

[gothwalk]

I am rarely aware of my own accent. I know it's there, and I know it sounds vaguely Irish to most non-Irish people, and vaguely non-Irish weird to the Irish, and sometimes archaic to everyone. I have always used 'ye' as the second-person plural, for instance, instead of the more modern Hiberno-English 'yous' or 'yiz'.

However, in the progress of a recent Living And the Dead session, I noticed that due to accents, only sabayone and shootbambi can pronounced the word 'realm' correctly every time. olethros, carawyn and I always insert an extra vowel - a sort of mini-u - between the l and the m. utterlymundane, being a well-spoken young fellow, gets it right about two attempts in three, but falls on the third hurdle.

Myself, I seem to be physically incapable of excising that extra vowel - and now that I've noticed it in my own speech, I can't un-hear it. Terribly irritating.

Comments

[ailbhe]

Oh - you and gothwalk - do you say "filluming" or "filming"?

It's weird how these things work - a lot of people pronounce Liam with two syllables (correct) and Niamh with one (not usually correct).

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Having tried it[1], I can say 'filming' with no trouble, but 'film' remains almost impossible.

[1] Co-worker: You're muttering to yourself a lot there, Drew.

[gothic-fraggle.livejournal.com]

Interesting... I think I can say both... probably depends on who I'm talking to. I was talking to a colleague about it yesterday and we discovered that I tend to say "film industry".