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DUBLIN
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From: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
Date: 19980101
Author:TOM McARTHUR
DUBLIN.
The capital of the Irish Republic, Dublin pre-dates the 9c Scandinavian settlements and some parts of the city have been English-speaking for almost 800 years. It is the birthplace of among others Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, James Joyce, Sean O'Casey, Iris Murdoch, and Samuel Beckett. The speech of middle-class Dubliners is closer to RP than is any other variety of Irish speech, but it differs from RP in four ways: (1) It is rhotic, with a retroflex r. (2) The realization of /t, d, n/ is more dental ...Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.
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