“Instead, I tried to correct her pronunciation. (Coo Cullen is a simplified way). She argued, asking what did I know – Irish people don’t even speak Irish, it’s not a real language.
The American mother shared the name with an Irish individual in the USA for work, but it became apparent quite quickly that she couldn't pronounce the name she had given her own son. In a post on ...
Irish, and English influences can still be found. As early Americans attempted to mirror aristocratic accents from across the ocean, some minor changes in pronunciation led to an all new way of ...
People who speak with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime, and becoming ...
The American mum discussed the name with an Irish individual who was in the US for work, and it quickly became apparent she couldn't pronounce the name she had given her own son. In a Reddit post ...