[3] Certain regional accents in North America, such as Mission brogue spoken in the Mission District of San Francisco, and Ottawa Valley Brogue spoken in the Ottawa River valley of Canada, are associated with Irish or Irish American populations in those areas.
[4][5] The word was noted in the 1500s by John Skelton; there is also a record of it in Thomas Sheridan's 1689 General Dictionary of the English Language.
'"[7] It is debated that the term comes from the Irish word barróg, meaning "a hold (on the tongue)," thus "accent" or "speech impediment.
"[8] An alternative etymology suggested that brogue means 'impediment,' and that it came from barróg which is homophonous with bróg in Munster Irish.
[9] 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.