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The term brogue (/broʊɡ/BROHG) generally refers to an Irish accent. Less commonly, it may also refer to certain other regional forms of English, in particular those of Scotland or the English West Country.^[1][2] However, traditionally Scottish and West Country accents were called burrs due to the rolling of the R's not brogues.^[3]

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The word was first recorded in 1689.^[4] Multiple etymologies have been proposed: it may derive from the Irishbróg ('shoe'), the type of shoe traditionally worn by the people of Ireland and the Scottish Highlands, and hence possibly originally meant 'the speech of those who call a shoe a 'brogue'.^[5] It is debated that the term comes from the Irish word barróg, meaning 'a hold (on the tongue)', thus 'accent' or 'speech impediment'.^[6]

An alternative etymology suggested that brogue means 'impediment', and that it came from barróg which is homophonous with bróg in Munster Irish. However, research indicates that the word for 'impediment' is actually bachlóg and that the term brogue to describe speech is known to Irish speakers in Munster only as an English word.^[7]

A famous false etymology states that the word stems from the supposed perception that the Irish spoke English so peculiarly that it was as if they did so 'with a shoe in their mouths'.^[7]

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1. ^'brogue'. Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
2. ^McArthur, Tom (2005). Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0192806376.
3. ^'burr'. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-04-03.
4. ^McCrum, Robert (1986). The Story of English. Viking Press. ISBN978-0670804672.
5. ^'brogue (n.)'. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
6. ^'Word of the Day: brogue'. Merriam-Webster. 2009-07-10. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
7. ^ ^abWalshe, Shane (2009). Irish English As Represented in Film. Peter Lang. p. 15. ISBN978-3631586822.

Also introduced the brogue and the shamrock into the Emerald Isle.Patrick Fitzmaurice, brogue and all, was an Irish gentleman without a flaw.Her brogue was apt to broaden when pleasure pulled down her dignity.And now there was only a trace of the brogue in Spud's voice.She spoke with a brogue, and they did not notice the peculiar expression.' My thong's loose,' said he, stooping to fumble with a brogue that needed no such attention.Ireland thought thee her child, for who spoke her brogue better than thyself?Gootes, noting my trepidation, put on the brogue of a burlesque Irishman.Also there was a faint and fascinating suggestion of brogue in her accent.(for when excited O'Grady would relapse into the brogue); 'but are ye much hurt?' RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR BROGUE.