Irish English

GPTKB entity

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:language
gptkb:dialect
gptkbp:descendedFrom gptkb:Early_Modern_English
gptkb:Middle_English
gptkbp:hasVariant gptkb:Hiberno-English
gptkb:Cork_English
gptkb:Dublin_English
gptkb:Limerick_English
gptkb:Ulster_English
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Irish English
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Scots
gptkb:Irish_language
gptkb:Hiberno-Norman
gptkbp:ISO639-3 eng
gptkbp:languageFamily gptkb:Anglic
gptkb:Germanic
gptkb:Indo-European
gptkb:West_Germanic
gptkb:Anglo-Frisian
gptkbp:notableFeature unique vocabulary
distinctive pronunciation
use of 'your man' or 'your one' for referring to people
use of 'after' perfect construction
use of 'craic' meaning 'fun' or 'news'
use of 'sure' as discourse marker
use of 'ye' for plural 'you'
distinct intonation patterns
influence from Irish grammar
use of 'banjaxed' for broken
use of 'bold' for naughty
use of 'cop on' for common sense
use of 'culchie' for rural person
use of 'deadly' for excellent
use of 'eejit' for idiot
use of 'feck' as mild expletive
use of 'gaff' for house
use of 'gas' for funny
use of 'give out' for scold
use of 'gob' for mouth
use of 'gowl' for fool
use of 'grand' for okay
use of 'grand' meaning 'fine'
use of 'lash' for rain
use of 'like' as sentence-final particle
use of 'manky' for dirty
use of 'messages' for shopping
use of 'mince' for walk awkwardly
use of 'mitch' for skip school
use of 'press' for cupboard
use of 'quare' for strange
use of 'quare' for very
use of 'savage' for great
use of 'scarlet' for embarrassed
use of 'shift' for kissing
use of 'slag' for tease
use of 'so' as sentence-final particle
use of 'sound' for nice
use of 'sure' for emphasis
use of 'thick' for angry
use of 'yerra' as exclamation
use of 'yoke' for contraption
use of 'yoke' for gadget
use of 'yoke' for thing
use of 'yoke' for thing/object
gptkbp:region gptkb:Northern_Ireland
gptkb:Republic_of_Ireland
gptkbp:spokenIn gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:Northern_Ireland
gptkbp:writingSystem gptkb:Latin_script
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Anglais
gptkb:English_language
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5