Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

tac foley

In Co. Wickla they are referred to as 'tinks'. Your mileage may differ.

tac

El_Duderino 09

Touche Tac. Not sure what point you're contributing but let's assume it has been made.

Anyhoo

One of my favourites is...

"You're 'avin ma eyes out, sunshine"

Translation: You're attempting to deceive/short change/lie to me, but I've seen through.

El_Duderino 09

Yer man or yer wan. The English don't get that at all

I told someone the score is 'nill all'. Apparently that's not normal

madmaggie

Buying fruit and veg in UK by the pound weight instead of individually, weird of what? A pound of apples, feck off ya eejit.

Mearings

From today's online Irish Independent:

<<Fine Gael TD Patrick O’Donovan is from Newcastle West and knows the wounded garda officer.

"I'm only just after hearing really" he told the Herald.>>

Hiberno English is still strong.

Nesta99

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

I'm not sure where I heard this:

I heard it comes from olden times when one's servants couldn't be relied upon to either read or remember a list of groceries. So one would write a brief message to the local greengrocer thusly.

Dear Mrs Greengroser,

Please furnish my man-servant with the following items and add the cost to my bill.


Yours faithfully,
Lord Downton

At school we were told that as the post office was also the local shop when one was sent down to pick up the messages or telegrams they also picked up groceries and the expression evolved in to usage beyond telegrams but still used or associated with grocery shopping. 'will ye do a message for me run up the town for me cigs' .... i can see my English cousins confusion when ye read back!

I know my gran said one time that there was only one phone in her area (local shop) and that people abroad and the like would call and leave messages usually to say that they would ring at a certain time and to have somone there from the family to take the call, so I can see how the term may have persisted.

Knowall Macduff

Basil3 wrote: »

Generally you bring something to where you are, and you take it if it's going away.

I always ask my Mrs why you guys don't have a bring-away on a Saturday night instead of a take-away

Its very simple you take the food from the takeaway and bring it home

Mearings

Basil3 wrote: »

Generally you bring something to where you are, and you take it if it's going away.

I always ask my Mrs why you guys don't have a bring-away on a Saturday night instead of a take-away

Quite. We do, however, have bring and buy sales.
And, of course, we would take the eye out of your head.

pickarooney

Knowall Macduff wrote: »

Its very simple you take the food from the takeaway and bring it home...

...from the takeaway?

I still don't get it.

RED L4 0TH

Running Balance wrote: »

Not sure if its been mentioned. If you ask where is the jacks ? You get some right odd looks. To which I respond outloud to my self go away you gowlbag!!

Ditto with the phrase, "I've spent all day in the bog". Alot of English people might tell you to pop in to the doctor's to get it sorted.

franglan

The phrases "country bumpkin" and "foodie" spoken in a home counties accent displeases me greatly.

tac foley

Re - 'Jacks'

In Tudor England a privy was first referred to as a jakes in 1530. In modern Ireland the cognate term jacks is still used, and is a very common method of referring to the toilet.

tac

John C

Some years ago in a pub in Schull in West Cork the sign for the men's toilet was Jacks. The ladies sign was Banjacks.

It was in the year 1998 so my memory has faded.

It is a clever word game.
Ban is Irish for a woman.
Banjaxed is broken or even ruined.

John

El_Duderino 09

In Ireland we discuss politics in a way that people don't seem to, in the UK.

Constant droning on about a lost cause like Irish water and nonsense talk about how all politicians are crooks.

For good or bad I have never heard people discuss politics like that in the UK

bjork

Pop


ffs..it's lemonade!

Purple Mountain

bjork wrote: »

Pop


ffs..it's lemonade!

I remember being in a UK pub once and asking for a dash of white lemonade as a mixer.
The barmaid asked curiously what other kind of lemonade we have in Ireland and when I answered red lemonade she was aghast!

El_Duderino 09

bjork wrote: »

Pop


ffs..it's lemonade!

Pop refers to any fizzy, sweet drink so it includes cola etc. More like Americans say soda.

We say minerals meaning non alcoholic drinks which others don't do

bjork

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Pop refers to any fizzy, sweet drink so it includes cola etc. More like Americans say soda.

We say minerals meaning non alcoholic drinks which others don't do

I forgot about "minerals". That's an odd one. Why do we call them that?

Hey would you like a mineral?

No thanks I don't eat rocks! :pac::pac:

Quazzie

Miwadi is named after Mineral Water Distribution. Always confused me where the word mineral came from.

piuswal

Have we had the double positive response meaning a negative, as in;

"yea, right" meaning no?

degsie

Irish people say 'England' when they mean 'Mainland Britain' which is kinda dumb.

Quazzie

degsie wrote: »

Irish people say 'England' when they mean 'Mainland Britain' which is kinda dumb.

For a lot of people when they learned about GB it was mostly just England. Don't forget Wales only became a country in 1997.

El_Duderino 09

piuswal wrote: »

Have we had the double positive response meaning a negative, as in;

"yea, right" meaning no?

That's a good one.

Same with 'I will, yeah'. Best do it yourself

LauraKc

Here we often use "sick" meaning disgusting but in England they use it meaning great or deadly. I once told my english cousin that I didn't like a dessert I got and that it was sick. He was so confused. 😄

Faith+1

My god we talk weird.....

Magico Gonzalez

"that's gas" does not translate well for los ingleses.

Mearings

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

"that's gas" does not translate well for los ingleses.

A gas man is not someone who walks around with a handheld computer, noting the moving digits on a meter and who is not necessarilly the life and soul of a party.

piuswal

Got a text today saying "I'm in bed with a dose", what's the English version ?

degsie

piuswal wrote: »

Got a text today saying "I'm in bed with a dose", what's the English version ?

"I'm in bed with an amount of prescribed drug to be taken at any one time"

piuswal

degsie wrote: »

"I'm in bed with an amount of prescribed drug to be taken at any one time"

He meant he had the flu or other short term illness