Irish English
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Irish English is also rhotic, meaning the “r” is overpronounced.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2023
The researchers turned to lists of surviving medieval texts—and those suspected to have been lost—written between 600 and 1450 C.E. in Dutch, French, Icelandic, Irish, English, and German.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 16, 2022
He and his friends were keenly aware of who was Irish, English, French, Yankee — the American melting pot is on full display.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2016
Photographs of the Lusitania project kept appearing in Irish, English and U.S. newspapers.
From Time Magazine Archive
My own tongue is neither American English nor English English, but Irish English; so I am as nearly impartial in the matter as it is in human nature to be.
From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard
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