Accents: Northern Irish

Discover the Northern Irish accent. With special thanks to Joel.

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[bethany]

I love how enthusiastic Joel is. He's finding it so hard to not laugh

[ladymidnight]

"Say hello Joel"
Actually says hello Joel

[stephaniebowman]

So can we have a video of just Joel reading us a story? He's adorable and I could listen to him talk all day.

[CalinnVojnngat]

I'm Italian. Once I had a chat with a taxi driver in Belfast. At first it was quite traumatizing, but after a few minutes I started to understand something like a word every two. He kind of kidnapped us to show us interesting places around the city and turned a 1 minute drive into 8, but we enjoyed the ride and paid the full price even if it wasn't our request. It was clear he cared about those places and well, it was a taxi full of anthropologists.
And another time a local in Bushmills stopped to chat with us and I admit I understood half the stuff he said, but I got that he had never seen the Giants' Causeway and he didn't care about it at all.

[GldenFleece]

As a Northern Irish guy living in the West Midlands, I have been asked if I am American or Canadian quite a few times. Very strange.

[gblan]

I love the way Anna delights in the diverse sounds of people's accents. She honors them all with her smiles of happiness.

[GldenFleece]

I'm Northern Irish and the paw, poor, pour thing really floored me. Never occurred to me we say each word different, when they are meant to sound the same lol. Strange.

[bethmccullough]

When you are Northen Irish and you have been saying all these words and you realise that you are actually really Northern Irish😂

[jonesyboy]

I’m Welsh from Cardiff, but my Nan came from Belfast. Love hearing the Northern Irish accent as it always reminds of her ❤️

[larmoth]

I'm from Northern Ireland and I remember back in School during English class when we were learning about Homophones one of the examples from the book was "Paw, Poor and Pour" and we were all confused, even the teacher was like "Now hold on, this isn't right"

[cowboy]

Litterally just add “lads” or “son” at the end of any phrase and boom it’s Northern Irish

[SternLX]

What's amazing is how much of the Northern Irish accent is prevalent in the General American accent.

[jeffmorse]

You know Anna, it might be more difficult to put together, but a comparison between Joel and a person from the "Mid South" of the United States might be interesting. There were a lot of people from Northern Ireland who settled there and the accent of places like Tennessee an Appalachia still have many of the elements. Yeah, I know, the series is on British accents, but I've always been interested how accents in the English speaking colonial areas evolved (US, Canada, South Africa, NZ, Australia).

[jasongannon]

Northern Irish accent changes every 20-30 miles Joel is likely close to Belfast . Still the poor paw and pour example stunned me I had no idea they were meant to sound the same

[Darxide]

I've always found it interesting that a lot of Northern Irish pronunciations are closer to American English than British English, especially the way 'r' is pronounced.

[TheGiantKillers]

I used to be a trainer and once did a two-week course in Brentwood to a class to 20. I thought it went pretty well until one of the feedbacks simply said. "I could listen to him speak all day. No idea what he's saying, just love the sounds."

[Krystalat]

I'm iraqi woman 🇮🇶 and I studied English by my own and now when I talk every one says you have got a Northaian Iraish accent!!
And that's why i watched ur video and it was definitely like they told me 😅 I guss because I used to listen to my favourite band (west life ) they are Iraish band 💕 my accent became naturally iraish.

[connorchapman]

I always thought I lost my Belfast accent, but watching this I realised I haven't. Good channel, thumps up.

[milena]

I spent a full month in Northern Ireland, in Belfast precisely and yeah it's a quite hard accent not gonna lie...but I can say that after the first week it got easier to understand people and I also fell in love with their amazing accent👍 I miss that city so much

[Mike]

So....Anna finds it crazy that "paw poor pour" are not pronounced all as "paw paw paw"? Crazy! :D