Pet Hates - Irishisms

Judgement Day

Well, fair is fair. I'll kick off with a few and they are mostly media/politician speak as most normal people don't talk like this.

"Going forward in the future". Noos for news - a Newstalk speciality. Tic tacing (?) for discussing - favourite with some TDs. We are where we are. Gaaltee instead of Galtee (the cheese) - sorry for being such a West Brit! And, just to keep the pot boiling - a local one from Enniscorthy - Arrrh or should that be Ahhhh - shouted loudly and seems to mean pardon or what did you say.

Badgermonkey

Fair fcuk's to ya

MrStuffins

Not being able to pronounce "T".

No bother when it's "Tea", but when the letter is at the end of a word it either disappears or becomes "ssssshhhhhhhhh"

Hande hoche!

This was inevitable.

tmc86

top of the morning :P

FTGFOP

*Bides time for Isle-of-Man-isms thread* Those schnakey bashturds!

Cardinal Richelieu

To be sure To be sure

The King of Moo

One that I'm quite fond of (it's sunny, I want to be positive!) is "God forgive me!"

It's basically used as a licence to say whatever awful things you want, then get away with it!

It's a classic Catholic deathbed repentence in bite-sized sentence form!

"Jaysus, he's an awful bollocks, God forgive me!"

"Them feckers should all be shot, God forgive me!"

"Lob it in there, God forgive me!"

maximoose

Culchies pronouncing his like "He's"

Wattle

Between the jigs and the reels

mysteries1984

I don't know how Irish it is, but pronunciation...

orkword instead of awkward
axe instead of ask

FTGFOP

mysteries1984 wrote: »

axe instead of ask

Your neighbour is Joe Pesci. That's cool.

Ferris Bueller wrote:

Isms, in my opinion, are not good.

Well said that man.

westendgirlie

G'wan g'wan g'wan.
Y'will, y'will, y'will

Judgement Day

Hang sandwich - a mate of mine from Kerry uses this one but I like it!

Casillas

Irishisms? Do you mean Hiberno-English?

Celly Smunt

"yee"-its meant to be "yous or yiz" tut

token101

People who exaggerate the Irishness. Either extremely culchie, or possibly worse, exaggerating a city accent. 'Heeeeeerrrrrree Biiiiiiiiiii', Go ****ing die.

Jester252

Anything Damo&Ivor say
It's part of our heritage/history/culture.
As the defence of irish or anything people dont what to change

RichieC

Judgement Day wrote: »

Hang sandwich - a mate of mine from Kerry uses this one but I like it!

I love a bit a' hang.

token101

RichieC wrote: »

I love a bit a' hang.

I'll bet you do

John Doe1

Donegal dictionary:

A..........I
Aul....... Old
Aul Boy....Father
Aul Doll...Mother
Aye........Yes
Bother.....Hassle
Canny......Cannot
Class.... .Good/Great
Dinny......Don’t
Doll......Girl or woman
Foundered .Extremely cold
Fray......From
Gan.......Going
Gaff......House/flat
Geesa.....Give me a
Gissa.....Girl
Glack........Good luck...........Good bye
Gon.......Please
Hanlin....Trouble or Fight or Argument
Hi........Used at the start and end of every sentence
Hay.......Have
Hey?......Phrased as a question meaning what
Juck......Boy or Man
Ker............ Car
Lock......Small amount of something
Mind......To remember
Mon.......Come on
Naw.......No
Nuance....Unusual
Pure......very
Purdies...Potatoes
Rare......strange or unusual
Staish....Oh wow or Look
Thon......That
Tight.....Cruel
Wan.......One or 1
Wan.......Refering to a person. E.g. "Look at that wan there"
Wee.......Small
Weins.....Babies or children
Well......Hello
Wile......Very or Terrible
Yes.......Hello
Yis Sir...Slang, Hello
Yes Horse........Hello to someone u like
Yock......... different types of ladies

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Brendog

Not sure if an "Irishism" but anyway....


Chip butties are disgusting. Literally turn my stomach they just look so .....wrong

Gophur

maximoose wrote: »

Culchies pronouncing his like "He's"

Is it OK for urban folk to say it?

ejmaztec

A scissors.

It's a pair of feckin scissors.

The King of Moo

maximoose wrote: »

Culchies pronouncing his like "He's"

Gophur wrote: »

Is it OK for urban folk to say it?

Saying it is bad enough, but I go slightly crazy when people type it instead of "his," which happens surprisingly often.

Mickey H

Casillas wrote: »

Irishisms? Do you mean Hiberno-English?

Probably.

Funglegunk

Gowler.

That has to be the worst one of all.

Edit: Actually my absolute least favourite is 'cocknose'. Not sure if that's an Irish thing though.

twinQuins

Use of the phrase "be is" or "be's"; every time I hear it I start losing the will to live.

Shryke

Stupid lengthened vowel sounds, the likes of tay for tea. Putting "shhh" where a simple "s" should be. The word mighty, like "you're fierce mighty". Pronouncing bollocks as bolix really sickens me. Basically all that stupid twang people put on. It's not that I don't have a bit of an accent but I at least pronounce the majority of words properly ffs. You'd think some people were having a stroke.

cocokay

"thanks a millun" instead of million
"i do be" instead of i am
"chicargo" instead of chicago (might not only be irish ppl doin this tho)
"fillum" instead of film

i love "jaysis" though, it always seems to be one of the first irishisms foreign people learn

Fratton Fred

Amn't, Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And the sharp intake of breath some people do when they're listening to you. It sounds like they've been punched in the stomach, or are having a very small orgasm. Most don't even notice they are doing it.

DenMan

I can't stand it when someone says "well" when saying hello. It sounds like they are responding to something else said to them. It doesn't make any sense.

The King of Moo

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Amn't, Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And the sharp intake of breath some people do when they're listening to you. It sounds like they've been punched in the stomach, or are having a very small orgasm. Most don't even notice they are doing it.

"Am not." I know it can sound funny, but it's pretty clear what it means, and though it's not strictly correct, there is a certain logic behind it.

You are not = You aren't
He is not = He isn't
I am not = I amn't

MrStuffins

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Amn't, Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And the sharp intake of breath some people do when they're listening to you. It sounds like they've been punched in the stomach, or are having a very small orgasm. Most don't even notice they are doing it.

Not as bad as people saying "atter" (or sometimes "after")

"I'm atter droppin' me toast"

No, you dropped your toast!

Fratton Fred

The Irishism I find amusing is the use of the word "So" instead of a full stop.

westendgirlie

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Am not." I know it can sound funny, but it's pretty clear what it means, and though it's not strictly correct, there is a certain logic behind it.

You are not = You aren't
He is not = He isn't
I am not = I amn't

I am not = I'm not

Paparazzo

People in the west doing their bad sean connery impressions.

GAAman

DenMan wrote: »

I can't stand it when someone says "well" when saying hello. It sounds like they are responding to something else said to them. It doesn't make any sense.

Right there with you on that one, seems to be people from tyrone who are the biggest culprits for it.

My own one is people from derry say "Yes" as a greeting/saying hello. I didn't ask you a feckin question!!!

Fratton Fred

I remember when Vodafone bought Eircell and eyebrows were raised about the high revenue a relatively small network generated.

But it became obvious when I started hearin a typical Irish phone call.

In London a typical call would finish off like this "OK mate, that's great, I,ll see you later then, bye".

In Dublin it would finish " aah reet then bud, that's grand so, I'll see yous later then, bye bye, bye, bye bye, bye".

The extra four or five "byes" must be worth a fortune to the networks.

Squall Leonhart

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

Raekwon

pmcmahon wrote: »

"yee"-its meant to be "yous or yiz" tut

Ah YOU beat me too it. Everybody from outside the Pale seems to say "Yee" instead of "You", it's like a muck savage impediment or something.

Fratton Fred

Raekwon wrote: »

Ah YOU beat me too it. Everybody from outside the Pale seems to say "Yee" instead of "You", it's like a muck savage impediment or something.

Verily square, ye should not mock. They merely rehearse for a performance of Romeo and Juliet

pragmatic1

John Doe1 wrote: »

Donegal dictionary:

A..........I
Aul....... Old
Aul Boy....Father
Aul Doll...Mother
Aye........Yes
Bother.....Hassle
Canny......Cannot
Class.... .Good/Great
Dinny......Don’t
Doll......Girl or woman
Foundered .Extremely cold
Fray......From
Gan.......Going
Gaff......House/flat
Geesa.....Give me a
Gissa.....Girl
Glack........Good luck...........Good bye
Gon.......Please
Hanlin....Trouble or Fight or Argument
Hi........Used at the start and end of every sentence
Hay.......Have
Hey?......Phrased as a question meaning what
Juck......Boy or Man
Ker............ Car
Lock......Small amount of something
Mind......To remember
Mon.......Come on
Naw.......No
Nuance....Unusual
Pure......very
Purdies...Potatoes
Rare......strange or unusual
Staish....Oh wow or Look
Thon......That
Tight.....Cruel
Wan.......One or 1
Wan.......Refering to a person. E.g. "Look at that wan there"
Wee.......Small
Weins.....Babies or children
Well......Hello
Wile......Very or Terrible
Yes.......Hello
Yis Sir...Slang, Hello
Yes Horse........Hello to someone u like
Yock......... different types of ladies

'

Most of that is Ulster Scots.

Raekwon

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Verily square, ye should not mock. They merely rehearse for a performance of Romeo and Juliet

Well if Romeo and Juliet was performed in GAA jerseys then I would well believe you

deise go deo

cocokay wrote: »

"i do be" instead of i am

They don't mean the same thing. 'I do/does be' is the habitual tense, something that standard English lacks.

lucylu

Paul Cosgrave wrote: »

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

blame the Modh coinniollach and the direct translation from Irish for that one

lucylu

a few scoops ... in referring to going for a few drinks wrecks my head.

cocokay

oh yeah forgot the "i'm after"s - "im after forgettin me phone" - dingbat.
or "d'yeh know that kinda way" - eh no wtf are you on about.
and also "n anyways" on the end of every sentence or yizzer "how much are yizzer cans o dutch gold n all n anyways" arrrrgh drives me insane

luckyfrank

She had a fanny on her like a badly packed kebab

or

Ahh Bee Jaysus

Krusader

Paul Cosgrave wrote: »

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

Maybe they are pronouncing it like this

I would've gone
I could've gone
I should've gone

Nothingbetter2d

maximoose wrote: »

Culchies pronouncing his like "He's"

Dubs adding O to the end of male names.

DaveO, JackO, DanO,

Dubs adding bleedin before words and inferring danger just to exagerate something.

instead of "it was good" it is "bleedin deadly"