Editing Hiberno-English (section)

==Standard Irish English==
Supraregional Southern Irish English, sometimes, simply Supraregional Irish English or Standard Irish English,<ref>Hickey, Raymond (ed.), 2012, pp. 99–100.</ref> refers to a variety spoken particularly by educated and middle- or higher-class Irish people, crossing regional boundaries throughout all of the Republic of Ireland, except the north. A mainstream middle-class variety of Dublin English of the early- to mid-twentieth century is the direct influence and catalyst for this variety,<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Hickey|2007a|p=114}}</ref> coming about by the suppression of certain [[markedness|marked]]ly Irish features, and retention of other Irish features, as well as the adoption of certain [[received pronunciation|standard British]] (i.e., non-Irish) features.<ref>Hickey, Raymond (ed.), 2012, p. 102.</ref> 

The result is a configuration of features that is still unique. In other words, this accent is not simply a wholesale shift towards British English. Most speakers born in the 1980s or later are showing fewer features of this late-twentieth-century mainstream supraregional form and more characteristics aligning to a rapidly-spreading advanced Dublin accent. See more above, under "Non-local Dublin English".<ref>{{Harvcoltxt|Hickey|2007a|p=29}}</ref>

Ireland's supraregional dialect pronounces:
*{{sc2|TRAP}} as quite open {{IPA|a}}.
*{{sc2|PRICE}} along a possible spectrum {{IPA|[aɪ~äɪ~ɑɪ]}}, with innovative {{IPA|[ɑɪ]}} particularly more common before [[voiced consonant]]s,<ref name="de Gruyter 2004 91"/> notably including {{IPA|/r/}}.
*{{sc2|MOUTH}} as starting fronter and often more raised than other dialects: {{IPA|[aʊ~æʊ~ɛʊ]}}.
*{{sc2|START}} may be {{IPA|[äːɹ]||en-us-r.ogg}}, with a backer vowel than in other Irish accents, though still relatively fronted.
*{{sc2|THOUGHT}} as {{IPA|[ɒː]}}.
*{{sc2|NORTH}} as {{IPA|[ɒːɹ]}}, almost always separate from {{sc2|FORCE}} {{IPA|[oːɹ]}}, keeping words like ''war'' and ''wore'', or ''horse'' and ''hoarse'', pronounced distinctly.
*{{sc2|CHOICE}} as {{IPA|[ɒɪ]}}.
*{{sc2|GOAT}} as a [[diphthong]], approaching {{IPA|oʊ||en-us-o.ogg}}, as in the mainstream United States, or {{IPA|əʊ||En-uk-oh.ogg}}, as in mainstream England.
*{{sc2|STRUT}} as higher, fronter, and often rounder {{IPA|[ə~ʊ]}}.