IrE

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.

• rie, RIE, -ier, Eri, eir, Rie, EIR, rei, Eri.