THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC of Cork is home to one of our nation’s finest and best loved accents.
Now, with a strong Cork lilt nearly every word sounds great – but these take things to the next level:
1. Mint
As in “that’s mint.” And the best way you can say that something is cool or great.
2. Hanging
Usually prefaced by “I am absoloootly…” it’s never said better than in the Rebel County.
3. Langer
Serving two purposes of course. A person can be a langer and you can go out and get langers. Both are completely reasonable and sound best from a Corkonian.
4. Beour
A way to say someone is fairly good looking – Cork people have perfected the pronunciation of beour down the years.
5. Massive
Meaning lovely/great – and a better way of saying it too.
6. Bazzar
Getting the hair cut. You’ll hear it better nowhere else.
7. Rake
“An absolute raaake of” anything is a unit of measurement.
8. Dollop
The rise and fall of dollop sounds best in a Cork accent – and everyone knows how much a dollop is. It’s also a very scientific measurement.
9. Bluffer
Said with the quintessential cynicism that only a Cork accent can give it.
10. Clown
“You’re some clown” can be heard on a regular basis from many a Corkonian. The beautiful cadence of cll-oow-nnn makes it the definitive version in all of Ireland.
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