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[amezri]

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I was just watching the local news where one of the reporters was talking about St. Patrick's Day and Irish events. This man has a no accent - typical Central-New Yorker. Then, he says "Irish" and "Ireland." Except he says it with an odd Irish lilt. And he goes on with the story, again accentless, until he says "ih-rish" and "ih-reland."

It was weird, man.

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[fyrdrakken]

Reminds me of something I heard someone talking about on a local radio station months ago. He was asking why Hispanic news anchors break into an accent to say their family names (and given names as well, if those are similarly ethnic), when no one else seems to do this. The example he used was Conan O'Brien, if he'd chosen to break into a lilt whenever mentioning his own surname.

Of course, as I noticed in Arabic class years ago, just because there was a specific Arabic pronunciation for American place names didn't mean we wouldn't just say "New York" or "Houston" with our own American accents. Because that was the way we'd grown up saying the names. But it still sounds weird when someone who's so Americanized as not to have a foreign or ethnic accent breaks into one for isolated words.