what's the jack-a-nory with "rere"?

gary_s

You often see the rear of a building referred to in Ireland as "rere".

Is this hiberno-English, as i can't find the work at the www.m-w.com dictionary, and searching Google for "rere of" seems to show usage almost exclusively in Ireland.

Or just bad English/spelling?

gary

Amz

I don't think I've ever seen that before.

Could you give me some examples of where you've seen it used?

gary_s

From a Google search for "rere of":

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZSI142Y1962.html
That portion of Ceannanus Mór Urban District north of a line drawn from a point
on the Urban boundary on the Virginia Road via the rere of the houses on ...

http://www.meath.ie/Planning/Navan_Dev_Plan/appendix7.html
Vacant tracts of land occur close to the town centre on Abbey Street, rere of Canon
Row, ...

http://www.irish-architecture.com/buildings_ireland/ dublin/southcity/templebar/meetinghouse_square/meetinghouse.html
By placing a stage in the rere of The Ark and a projection room in the Photographic
Archive, the space is fully utilised during summer evenings

http://dublin.city-centre-hotels.com/comfort-inn/
Guests are welcome to watch TV in the lounge, surf the internet with 24 hour online
access or just relax in the garden at the rere of the Inn.

http://www.dublin-accommodation.net/
Drummond Mews is to the rere of our three storey Victorian Terrace

http://www.kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/ metalworkersq-z.htm
This is to acquaint the friends of James Tandy, that he keeps
his ware house at the rere of his late dwelling-house in Corn-market

gary_s

Actually, have just found http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22rere%22+hiberno-english&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=3C5738CE.80906%40silmaril.ie&rnum=1 which claims it IS a hiberno-english spelling...

Amz

It's not in the Collins English Dictionary.

All I can find is Rear.

I'd imagine it's just bad spelling.

Rere is not in the dictionary from what I can see.