The New York Times has a dialect quiz which predicts that it can tell where you are from in the UK or Ireland based on how you pronounce certain words.
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Building permits for the Little Rock metro area; projects valued at $150,000 or more:
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Cline Construction Group, LLC, 100 Wellington Hills, Little Rock, $750,000.
Massey Construction, LLC, 124 N. Filmore St., Little Rock, $678,000.
Bailey Contractors, Inc., 202 S. Rodney Parham Road, Little Rock, $250,000.
Raymond Hickey, 2600 Main St., Little Rock, $220,000.
Cline Construction Group, LLC, 2226 Cottondale Lane U-100 Little Rock, $200,000.
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Mark Williams Construction, Inc., 252 River Ridge Pointe, Little Rock, $1,200,000.
Jacob White Construction Company, 5710 S. Country Club Blvd., Little Rock, $525,000.
Silver Development Company, LLC, 146 Chenal Village Circle, Little Rock, $450,000.
Silver Development Company, LLC, 136 Chenal Village Circle, Little Rock, $300,000.
Graham Smith Construction, LLC, 11 Short Leaf Lane, Little Rock, $225,000.
In EilÃs Dillonâs novel The Bitter Glass, set in west Co Galway during the Irish Civil War, there is a line of dialogue that is quietly extraordinary in showing some of the turns the English language has taken in Ireland: âWasnât it herself told me ye were coming today . . .â
Few Irish people would bat an eyelid at this â or pause to deconstruct it, such is the storyâs momentum. And it borders on cryptic for readers uninitiated in Irish English dialect; certainly its nuances and cadences are likely to be lost en route. So humour me while I marvel at some of its features.