I was talking to mum about shopping on the high street

Thud

surprised no one has offered to bring yore ma shoppping for you

SiegHeilNosey

Topper Harley wrote: »

Yes, also known as Pádraig Pearse.

I was joking... based on the op dig at overly reactive republicans... nevermind

But since you replied.. he never referred to himself as Pádraig Pearse. It was either Pádraig Mac Piarais or Patrick Pearse.

My name is neil for example.. i go bananas when people refer to me as Niall, its not my name. If you havent got one of them easily mixupable names, youll never understand :pac:

Topper Harley

SiegHeilNosey wrote: »

I was joking... based on the op dig at overly reactive republicans... nevermind

But since you replied.. he never referred to himself as Pádraig Pearse. It was either Pádraig Mac Piarais or Patrick Pearse.

My name is neil for example.. i go bananas when people refer to me as Niall, its not my name. If you havent got one of them easily mixupable names, youll never understand :pac:

Oops!

A name such as Ciarán/Kieran. I see hear it all the time people of that name.

However, people regularly call me by the Irish version of my name. Doesn't bother me. In fact I use it for my email address as Topper* is such a common name that it was impossible to get a decent email address with it. But then it's not an easily mixupable name, so not exactly the same thing.

* Not real life name

Kirby

I'm very close to my folks but I've called both my parents by their first names since I was about twelve, many years ago.

People always looked taken aback by it but I find it cringeworthy to hear people in their twenties talking about mummy and daddy. They have names. Use them.

tomtherobot

mummypoos?

corktina

Chucken wrote: »

No!

e's 'avin a larf

nah...he's avin a giraffe

neil_hosey

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DebDynamite

I don't see a problem with using the term "high street" as there's no Irish alternative for it really, as we've only had the British "high street" shops here for about 15 years. What else would you call it?

To me the term means the collective name for all the usual British chain-stores - Topshop, Boots, Marks & Spencer, etc,

Duckworth_Luas

DebDynamite wrote: »

I don't see a problem with using the term "high street" as there's no Irish alternative for it really, as we've only had the British "high street" shops here for about 15 years. What else would you call it?

Ireland's generic term for a town's primary shopping street has always been "the main street"!

Vojera

Topper Harley wrote: »

I use it for my email address as Topper* is such a common name

Is the Anglicised version "Sharpener"?

goose2005

Honest opinion wrote: »

No one refers to town/city centre shopping as the high street in Ireland it just not done.

Except in Killarney and Galway.

However i have heard the word trash meaning rubbish being used more frequently!

Even by that noted Yankee Bill Shakespeare:

Othello wrote:

Iago:
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed.