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Laura Grainger

Mispronunciations that make perfect sense to anyone who grew up in Dublin

Irish people make up a small portion of the 1.35 billion English speakers worldwide.

Yet like most of those who speak it as a first language, we have our own unique way of speaking it.

As we all know, English wasn’t supposed to be the language we predominantly spoke in our day-to-day lives, with Irish becoming a secondary language learned in school for the vast majority of our modern population. Yet even in the English we speak, we’ve carried over some linguistic rules from our native tongue.

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