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[Murphy (Gerard)]: English ‘brogue’ meaning ‘Irish accent’.
In Éigse 3, 1941/42 (1943), (pt. 4), pp. 231–6.
Incl. answers to a questionnaire concerning the words bróg ‘shoe’ and barróg ‘grip’ (also instances of bachlóg). Irish has no phrase resembling English ‘he speaks with a brogue’.
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