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Hurley or Hurl?

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  • #102
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    There is no mention of what it is called in the following counties

    Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo, Tyrone, Westmeath


  • #103
    Cuchulainn2012
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Cuchulainn2012


    Camán
    Cuchulainn2012 wrote: »
    Official guide has the aggressive foul
    'To strike or to attempt to strike an opponent, with a hurley'

    Although I'm a hurl man myself.

    What gets me boiling is when some non-hurling gob****e says let me see you hurley bat - ah would ya quit

    I'm Armagh based and were predominately hurl people


  • #104
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,631 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Hurl
    Sorry for dragging up this old thread but It's driving me mad

    It's Hurley!!

    The verb is 'to hurl', the game is hurling, and the equipment used to hit the sliotar is a Hurley.

    'a hurl' just sounds so wrong.


  • #105
    joeguevara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,119 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Hurl is the verb i.e. You hurl with a hurley. I'm from Tipp though.


  • #106
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Camán
    Akrasia wrote: »

    'a hurl' just sounds so wrong.

    Apart from in some (I'd say most) hurling counties where they call it a hurl. Words can have double meanings. 'Hurley' sounds like what and American or English person would say when encountering a hurl. Probably technically correct but just weird. Like calling a Full forward his technically correct term of full centre forward


  • #107
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    Can we get back to the OP (Original Post) stating what we call the stick, what county we're from and what part of the county we're from


  • #108
    Mouth of the South
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭Mouth of the South


    Hurl
    It's a hurley, and calling it anything else is plain wrong and lazy. Like calling a handled receptacle for carrying coal a 'buck' or like calling the implement used for putting the coal into the bucket a 'shov'. I notice that those Dubs who discovered this strange Irish game of hurling circa 2011 have taken this midlands nomenclature as being the norm.


  • #109
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,016 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Camán
    Have to laugh at the people using the English language as their argument and saying hurl is a lazy abbreviation. The item clearly has two words that describe it, its not hard to figure out and neither is the one true and only name for it. People on about nouns etc are talking nonsense also. You can play football with a football you know, same way you can hurl with a hurl


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