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Don't bother. It's rather hard. Too many phonemes.

I'm not sure where that k is coming from! :) Yeah, some of the odder accents have real issues with "th" sounds. I think it's because there aren't any in Irish. You go back about five or six generations and lots of people spoke Irish as their first language. A generation or two again and more...

So I heard. A bit of a sell-out after the success of AA. So am I.

I believe there was a sequal, 'Tis. That's probably another fairly Irish expression. (= "It is")

Brad Pitt's accent? It wasn't bad. Some sort of generic culchie (think Irish redneck) accent, spoken quickly. Different from the Cork one, but recognisably from the same country.

Neither. My dad's read the book. He would identify with that era a lot more than me. It's based in Limerick, a little north of Cork.

Depends on where you're from. The accent here varies enormously. I have a middle-class Dublin accent. I've been mistaken for Canadian and English, among others. :) I guess the most prominent varient would be Cork (think Roy Keane), where they'd rhyme "boy" with "die". I'd spell it "bye", but...

Riiight. I think I'm going to stop reading this thread now.

I don't know, not being American and all. I've never heard (or read) it before though.

:confused: Ye wha?