What word would describe a type of shoe and and Irish accent?
Brogue shoe a bog. However, contemporary descriptions of the original brogues do not mention such holes. The word "brogue" came into English in the late sixteenth century. It comes from the Gaelic "bróg" (Irish), "bròg" (Scottish) "shoe", from the Old Norse "brók" meaning "leg covering". The Scots word "brogue" is also used to denote a bradawl or boring tool as well as the action of piercing with such a tool. The word "brogue" was first used to describe a form of outdoor, country walking shoe in the early twentieth century traditionally worn by men. At that time the brogue was not considered
Comparison of Scottish Gaelic and Irish led to further divergence, though conversely more recent spelling reforms in Scottish Gaelic have reduced the divergences to some extent. One difference is that the accent is written as a grave accent (, "heavy stroke/accent") in Scottish Gaelic, as opposed to the acute accent (, "length accent"; , "sharp stroke/accent") used in Irish; hence the word for "welcome" is written as in Scottish Gaelic and in Irish as . Irish has no grave accent, only acute accents, while until recently Scottish Gaelic had both grave and acute accents which were used to differentiate between open and closed vowel sounds. However,