/dis/,
bathe
/bed/. /J7 is
used instead o f /s / before consonants in words like
fist
/fijt/,
sleep
/Jli:p/,
sixty
/sikjti/. The consonants /tj/ and /J/ are inter
substituted in such words as
showel
/tjAvl/,
chimney
/Iim ni/. The
sounds /t/ and /d/ are pronounced dental aspirated before
It/: dry
/d Arai/,
tree
/tAri:/. Som etim es the final sound /d / is om itted in
words like
cold
/kaul/,
land
/la:n/,
hand
/ha:n/. The cluster /h w /
is used instead o f /w / in words like
what
/hw at/,
why
/hw ai/,
when
/hw en/.
The Irish English vow els are pronounced longer than in RP.
In Irish English stress may be shifted to the final syllable o f a
word:
sacri'flce.
The Irish English intonation is characterized by
very high tones and abrupt rising and falling m elod ies1.
Among the English dialects Cockney should be mentioned. The
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