If bailey had half a dozen they’d have butchered him.
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Calling out and insulting people who speak in a Dort/Pseudo Mid-Atlantic accent. This monstrosity has to be eradicated. A bigger threat than Chinese flu.
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Was Bob geldof the first person ever to have the ‘D4’ accent? @TheUlteriorMotive @tallback @Tim_Riggins
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This is the kind of prejudice that people from south Dublin have to put up with.
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I thought it was supposed to have been invented by Miriam O’Callaghan.
He had it in 70s anyway.
It’s now expanded a long way from its environs of Blackrock and Foxrock
I was slated for suggesting it’s taking over the country and it’s hard to tell where a lot of kids are from these days.
Aspirational don’t ya see. Expect for Dub Dubs who have doubled down on the bud/wah accent
The funny ones were those in college (usually ladies) who arrived up from the country and within a couple of months had gone full South Dub accent.
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G4
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Absolutely. Women from areas with neutral-ish accents like Galway could pull it off while those from the likes of Cork just sounded silly.
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Charles Mitchell was probably what a posh Dub sounded like pre SoCoDu. he was from Monkstown and what looked like quite a fancy house
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1107/657651-charles-mitchels-final-news-tribute/
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Dunmore in Galway was always pretty bad for it. We used call it Dunmore 4. There were a few women came down to Galway sounded like they were after taking elocution lessons at mount anville every summer.
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Very random but have you ever heard any recordings of James Joyce’s accent?
I only heard it once but I thought he had a serious country slang. Mr Dublin City himself. Unbelievable changes in the past century.
He ran a puppy farm ! 
Mount Anville knocked the West Limerick out of my mother’s accent
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She wasn’t the first, but Lorraine Keane while on AA Roadwatch did more to spread it than any of her peers.
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Lawnster rubby was the wind that scattered the seed.