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Learning Irish English

Vocabulary

a fixture on

a part of

beyond

further

handicap

weakness or problem

sought after

wanted

class connotation

traits that suggest a person's social class

inflection

rising and falling of the voice

tone

quality and attitude of a person's voice

clue

piece of information that helps to understand

the rhotic 'r'

Irish English is 'rhotic', which means the letter 'r' is clearly pronounced in almost all positions of a word (e.g. butter, hard, world).

it's a giveaway

it makes it very easy to guess

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