why do some English speakers end their words by adding “a” or “o” like in the song “whiskey In The Jar-o” or when some one yells “shut up-a”?

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As a non native English speaker, I find it so difficult to grasp.

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Both of those cases are associated with non-native English speakers (Irish Gaelic in the 1st case and Italian in the 2nd) speaking English as a second language. And in both of those cases, it is because their languages do not typically have hard stops on those letters like we do, and typically trail off into a vowel sound so they added those.