Description: An educational site about the dialects and accents of English: British, American, Irish, foreign dialects, and many more.
Apologies for the light activity around here for the past year. I’ve been extremely busy for some time, and as such, my posting rate has slowed greatly. In lieu of going long stretches without explanation, I’ve decided to take an official break from blogging for the next few months. I’ll be making a few tweaks to this website in the meantime, and hope to get back once I can commit to writing more frequently.
[ NOTE : I wrote the above post over ten months ago, and obviously have yet to return to blogging. Although I don’t have a clear timeline, I do still plan on writing more here in the future.]
Two commenters recently pointed out that fillum (i.e. fɪləm ), a quintessentially Irish pronunciation of film , can also be heard in England. Many assume fillum ‘s origins to be Irish–along with similar pronunciations of words like helm (“hellum”)–because in certain contexts the Irish language inserts a vowel between /l/ and /m/ in consonant clusters.
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