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Sligo Slang

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    #32
    elshambo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭elshambo


    "ill hit ya with so many lefts yel be prayin for a right" is loved the world over

    "il give ya a dose of the sidekicks" when the whole of sligo had the dodgy movie channels on the cable shown kung fu movies all day


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    #33
    Dagon
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Dagon


    What about "pure"?

    It seems to be placed in front of pretty much anything and everything for emphasis. "That band were pure class", "I'm pure tired", "Yer wan is puuuure cute".

    This is used constantly by certain Sligo heads, but I've seen it used to a lesser extent by dubs as well.


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    #34
    Madge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Madge


    Dagon wrote: »
    What about "pure"?

    It seems to be placed in front of pretty much anything and everything for emphasis. "That band were pure class", "I'm pure tired", "Yer wan is puuuure cute".

    This is used constantly by certain Sligo heads, but I've seen it used to a lesser extent by dubs as well.

    I'm pure guilty of using that one! :o

    Also, what about "like"?
    For example, "did you see that tv show, like?" or "what is he on about, like?"


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    #35
    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    Madge wrote: »
    Also, what about "like"?
    For example, "did you see that tv show, like?" or "what is he on about, like?"

    Dammit! I'd just about gotten out of the habit of saying like after everything!! :o

    Or at least I think I had. Now I'm aware of it I'll start counting and driving myself mad again! :(


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    #36
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,094 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Dagon wrote: »
    What about "pure"?

    It seems to be placed in front of pretty much anything and everything for emphasis. "That band were pure class", "I'm pure tired", "Yer wan is puuuure cute".

    This is used constantly by certain Sligo heads, but I've seen it used to a lesser extent by dubs as well.
    The posts in the Sligo forum are pure shite - is that what you mean :D


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    #37
    takola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭takola


    muffler wrote: »
    The posts in the Sligo forum are pure shite - is that what you mean :D

    Oi!! Careful now! We'll have to get Basquille onto you! :p


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    #38
    muffler
    Registered Users Posts: 46,094 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    takola wrote: »
    Oi!! Careful now! We'll have to get Basquille onto you! :p
    :eek: Please no. Im heterosexual ;)


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    #39
    Basq
    Registered Users Posts: 43,891 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    muffler wrote: »
    :eek: Please no. Im heterosexual ;)
    Whoa whoa whoa... it was one time and I was very very drunk! *























    * OK.. it may have actually been closer to twice... or three times!


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    #40
    tulipandthistle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭tulipandthistle


    muffler wrote: »
    Puts me in mind of this from Scotland:

    Two Pakistani men immigrate to Scotland, and agree to meet two years later to see who has become the most Scottish. Two years pass. They meet and the first one says "I have a Scotland football jersey, I drink Scotch whisky and eat haggis every week, I've joined a pipe band, I own a Scottie dog, I wear a kilt everywhere, I salmon fish and I play golf ......... That's how Scottish I am. How Scottish have you become?"

    The second one replies, "AWAY TAE FU*K YA PAKI B@STARD!"

    :D Ha, ha, ha! Loved the joke, I promise not to get offended, hee hee!!


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    #41
    Dagon
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Dagon


    haha, I'll admit I use "like " after a lot of stuff alright like ;)


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    #42
    mullanimal
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭mullanimal


    fair play lads... ye came 3rd...

    i'm from waterford and we came in 4th...

    looking forward to the book being published!

    a tip for anyone that is annoyed with text speak or bad entries on the site... you can provide alternative entries and as the site is so new if you get one mate to vote on it, it will become the default term.

    also, if something is really shyte just request it to be flushed.


    sound.


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    #43
    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭nicolaonfire


    Ha I heard a new one the other day.
    My sister was using it, she called someone a "minkasorous"!
    I don't know how it should be spelled but you know!


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    #44
    Hail 2 Da Chimp
    Registered Users Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭Hail 2 Da Chimp


    Hahaha Minkasaurus!


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    #45
    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭TequilaMockingBird


    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    Hahaha Minkasaurus!

    Not only is that politically incorrect, it also brilliant!


    As a non-Sligonian I could never understand "B-oooooo-k" (hooook, coooook etc), as oppossed to the rest of the world, who say buk. Oh, how I laughed when I first moved here. Booooooooooook indeed...

    But while recently helping my girl with homework, getting her to pronounce sounds... :eek: two "O's" are pronounced "oooo"....:o

    Sligo appears to have got it right. The rest of the world are wrong.

    I stand corrected.


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    #46
    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭nicolaonfire


    Hail 2 Da Chimp wrote: »
    Hahaha Minkasaurus!

    Haha I love it!

    Ah you fixed the spelling! :D


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    #47
    nicolaonfire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭nicolaonfire


    sueme wrote: »
    Not only is that politically incorrect, it also brilliant!


    As a non-Sligonian I could never understand "B-oooooo-k" (hooook, coooook etc), as oppossed to the rest of the world, who say buk. Oh, how I laughed when I first moved here. Booooooooooook indeed...

    But while recently helping my girl with homework, getting her to pronounce sounds... :eek: two "O's" are pronounced "oooo"....:o

    Sligo appears to have got it right. The rest of the world are wrong.

    I stand corrected.


    Haha I have had many an argument with people from different counties about how book is pronounced. Nobody would agree with me that it is book not buk apart from a fellow Sligonian. Are we the only people who say it "B-oooo-k"?


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    #48
    TequilaMockingBird
    Registered Users Posts: 4,392 ✭✭✭TequilaMockingBird


    Yes, its just you.


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