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This article is about the accent. For the shoe, see Brogues.
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brogue is a strong
dialectal
accent, notably in
Irish dialects of the
English language. For example, in the folksong "
Finnegan's Wake", the character of the song, Tim Finnegan, was said to have a "beautiful brogue so rich and sweet".
It is from the Irish (Gaeilge) word "bróg", meaning "shoe". The term has been said to have been coined by an
Englishman who met an
Irishman whose accent was so thick that he spoke "as though he'd a shoe in his mouth", but it more likely derives from the association of Irish workers with their rawhide shoes.
The term is also used in reference to
Scottish, and other
Gaelic-influenced dialects. The term is sometimes applied to dialects of the Britannic tongues such as
Welsh as well.
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