There are few English language dialects that provoke as much interest as the fabled Hiberno-English , and within that tiny group, Dublin ers punch above their weight in captivating listeners with the musical quality of their tone.
Made famous around the world through the utterances of unmistakably Dub voices like Ronnie Drew, Phil Lynott, Conor McGregor and Colin Farrell, the Big Smoke is synonymous with the wisest and wittiest personalities spawned from its inhabitants throughout its past as a method of coping with poverty, oppression and conflict. Our centuries-long persistence in proving a nuisance to the British Empire when it came to extinguishing the Irish language kept our native tongue firmly entrenched in our everyday lives, ensuring the creation of as many sub-variations of English on the island as there are stars in the sky, as Dublin Live writes. Therefore, Dublin became its own ecosystem of Irish and English words which amalgamated - with the help of regional accents - to become the beloved lingo we now refer to as 'Dub slang' or less commonly 'Dublinese'. Read More: Cork man living in America only speaks Irish to his three children Read More: Quiz: How well do you know the Irish language? The residual features of historical Irish language fluency also remain embedded in the Dubs' day-to-day conversation, as we are about to demonstrat
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