IrE

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ire"

English

Proper noun

IrE

  1. (linguistics) Abbreviation of Irish English.
    • 1990, Jerold A. Edmondson, Crawford Feagin, Peter Mühlhäusler, Development and diversity: language variation across time and space:
      Quite a number of EE urban and rural dialects, educated English speech, IrE, and ScotE cannot be ruled out.
    • 2013, Gunnel Melchers, Philip Shaw, World Englishes, →ISBN, page 77:
      Like ScotE, IrE has certain word stress patterns that differ from RP (in -ise verbs, for example), but there are few categorical differences and a great deal of variability.

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