Phonetics are in IPA.
Mid Ulster English - Vowels.
Vowels have phonemic vowel length with one set of lexically long and one of lexically short phonemes. This may be variously inluenced by the Scots system.
/a/ in after /w/ e.g. want, what, quality.
/ɑ/ and See also:
Much non-standard vocabulary found in Mid Ulster English and many meanings of standard English words peculiar to the dialect come from Scots and Irish. Some examples are shown in the table below.
Furthermore, speakers of the dialect conjugate many verbs according to how they are formed in Scots, eg. "driv" instead of drove as the past tense of drive, etc.
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