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syllables (across multiple syllables or even within a single one), which is popularly heard in rapid conversation, by other English-speakers, as an undulating "sing-song" quality.

Among older speakers, and may respectively be pronounced as and before a consonant and so fist sounds like fished, castle like ', and arrest like '.

Certain South-West features may also exist in Ireland outside that region but typically only in rural areas. An example is the backing, slight lowering, and perhaps rounding of towards , so

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