brogue

If the little voice inside your head has recently taken on a new accent — specifically a rolling Scottish brogue — it's likely that you're not alone.

Another prospective juror was of Irish descent — he had a faint brogue — and talked about his past as a waiter and how he liked the outdoors.

“He’d put on an Irish brogue,” she said, “that he kind of adopted from his grandparents.”

Malachy McCourt, who fled a melancholic childhood in Ireland for America, where he applied his blarney and brogue to become something of a professional Irishman as a thespian, a barkeep and a best-selling memoirist, died on Monday in Manhattan.

Still, the book’s incantatory rhythms cast a Joycean spell, a 350-page fever dream written in blood and brogue.