Languages of Ulster - Mid-Ulster Dialect 3/4

Warren Maguire, a senior lecturer in English language at the University of Edinburgh, provides a personal introduction to the dialect of mid-Ulster.

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[cathalmeenagh]

It's so interesting to see how Dr. Warren Maguire code-switches from his standard NI English (1:45 to 2:00) into rural Tyrone dialect and accent as he wanders around the country lanes of his Tyrone townland (2:45 to 3:21).

[soaresx]

I have lived in Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. I had there Internship (all 1 year). For me was that best time ever with English. I really love that dialect. I miss that time, so I like to listening to remember on youtube dialect because I don't have chance to speak as I don't live in Northern Ireland (For me as I am from Bosnia, we need Visa to visit Northern Ireland, UK(After 1 year in Northern Ireland, British accent was so easy for me to understand, when I was in London example. I remeber when My ex Manager in Northern Ireland in Company said to me: "If you can understand us, then you know English"

[Steven_Rowe]

The richness of Ireland and the UK amazes me and although I left London for Aus 50 years ago I appreciate the richness of it more.
The accents are all amazing and I love to listen and soak it all up.

[boredweegie]

I'm from Glasgow and my partner is from NI we were visiting his family one time and this wee guy I was talking to part of the extended family started talking and I was like .WAT? You from Glasgow??? He laughed and said no..Larne.I could not get ma head around how his accent was so Scottish.😂my mind was blown 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[OSTARAEB]

1:55 onward the music brings me to tears. I hear her beautiful, broken history over the centuries. It is indeed different from Derry, Donegal or Belfast accents.

[theresamcgalloway]

To hear the pattern pause points of emphasis in my grandfather's voice is a gift to me . After 60 years, a treasure.

[elberethvarda]

Reminds me of my year when I taught French in Enniskillen, Fermanagh. The dialect spoken there shared many features you can here in this part of Co. Tyrone (mostly the North of Fermanagh). I did record Catholics and Protestant students at the time (but in 1998, we only used cassettes and over time they degraded). It was very useful for me to kind of guess out what the accent was there in Enniskillen, but it appeared the accent may vary according to communities as well. Of all the English-speaking nations I stayed in or visited, Northern Ireland was the most difficult one for me. It took me 3 months to finally be able to understand a convo with local people. As of today, I still have problems to follow the locals, because back in France, I had to get back to RP English if I were to teach the language.
Thanks for that video.

[yvonnefarrell]

It's got a lilt to it as well, the intonation, if you will. Beautiful. Thank you so much for this, from our ancestral homeland. (Well; one of our ancestral homelands!)

[ulstwarrior]

Absolutely brilliant I'm born n bred mid ulster I love the area the people and our wonderful dialect.

[knicholson]

The way he pronounced the word CAR, like CKYAR sounds like Jamaican and it’s easy to join those dots.

[idolivercampos]

I'm from Brazil AND love so much Scotland, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[nirnman]

it was great how his accent changes when he was in his home area

[UsyksmashedFurytwice]

Being from way west of the Bann in Fermanagh, I have to say that the Antrim/ Ulster Scots type accent absolutely grates on me. Harsh isn’t the word for it.

[wakeywakeypeeps]

Brought up in tattykeel and around tattyreagh couple mile from fintona.
44 live in London now, best yes of my life

[sailaab]

Thank you for this and uncleji actually made me want to look up what he was talking about. Great that found out and got educated about what bog turf is. Fossil fuel.. something like coal but one third the calorific burning power.
Sir (your father) has so much grace and the maturity of having lived a fulfilling life.. all with toil physical labour too.. and yet is more comfortable and hopefully healthier than we can ever be.. in our skin.

[leaphengleng]

Wow. The accent to me is so adorable. If a girl talk to me in this test, no matter what she said I'd fall from the top to her even though I don't understand anything.

[liambyrne]

Funny how this area where the settlers live is so flat and green it looks like the sea of green and the native irish on the poor land

[prema]

I left Tyrone in 1956 at the age of 18, for Australia. For the first 6 months all I could hear was my Tyrone rhotic accent, then all I could hear was the Aussie accent where r is sounded as a long ah. After a year both accents faded into the background and now at 87 I still have my mid ulster accent, preserved because I am not aware of it. It hasnt changed even a wee bit. My aussie friends want to know what is a wee bit.

[fionasmall]

I use what I now know to be some Irish words that I thought were Scottish. We always said ‘the big press and the wee press’ which most Scot’s call cupboard. My mum used to say I’m Hirpling a bit today again I didn’t realise it was an Irish word.

[dougparkhurst]

I can hear the roots of the American Southern accents.