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squirrel01 · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 88 Location: co. roscommon

and dont forget after 1200 hrs it then becomes the evening......

tringle · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:52 pm Post subject:

blowin · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

Following on from that , ROI butchers have some cuts of meat which I don't recognise at all . " Housekeeper's Cut " is one . It would be helpful to know what the uk equivalent might be . Does anyone know where I could find a site or poster which illustrates and names the traditional cuts ?

blowin · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:55 pm Post subject:

"There was an old owl who sat on an oak .
The more he heard the less he spoke .
The less he spoke the more he heard .
Wasn't that owl a wise old bird ".

I think of that as the south of england version .
I am told that the Derbyshire ( or was it Yorkshire ) version goes :

" See all , hear all , say nowt " .
Eat all , drink all , pay nowt " .

Well that should kick off a bit of a barney for a start but what I was going to ask is whether there is an Irish equivalent ? And if there is , whether we could have it in both languages please Roisin Wink

kayte · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 6

I think that quote is from Yorkshire. I live in Derbyshire and the one I hear most is
Derbyshire born Derbyshire bred
Strong in the arm and weak in the head!

wayland · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 1163 Location: Campile. Wexford

Yep. Gotter be Yorkshire with those sentiments Laughing

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Kira · Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Belfast

"after having" is horrendous, but it makes perfect sense here. Mostly because we're still working off "translated Irish" and not English.

cup o' cha/ cuppa scald = mug of tea with far too much milk and sugar.

coddle = A dublin speciality. A kind of stew made with bacon (not rasher!) pieces. If it's nice, it's very nice. If not, you'll be drinking water for a month because of the salt.

Ham of all varieties comes in green(unsmoked) and smoked.

Moth, pronounced mo'h - derogatory term used liberally in Dublin for girlfriend, partner or wife.

Jackeen - someone born and bred in Dublin
(Born and bred = born and raised)

Spear chucking bog warrior - term of mocking. Anyone who is not a Jackeen is a culchie, but this term is usually reserved for those from the midlands and Wexford. Oh, and Cork.

Vehicle, pronounced veh-ickle. Culchie term for car.
Nee Naw - Jackeen term for ambulance.

Feck, arse and shite are the three most commonly used swearwords.
Can be used as a noun, verb, adverb, pronoun and punctuation.
Best Irish swear word is Bollocks. Or Bollix, depending on where you're from.
Can be used for many purposes from telling someone that they may be uttering a fallacy, a term to denote frustration, disbelief or another unfortunate situation from dropping a pint to running over the mother in law. Someone may be one, or a pain in one.

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gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

blowin · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:58 am Post subject:

Is that gender-specific , then ( ya / ye ) ?
Or a sign of respect / when you talk to your elders -- as in the French Tu / vous ??
Or just plain Irish ? Laughing

gai · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Location: Co Donegal

Regional dialect. Laughing

I should also point out for any one who has immigrated here and chosen to live in the Northern part of the country that we have a separate language up here commonly known as Ulster Scots.
Just to confuse everyone. Laughing