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Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

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    #362
    degsie
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    piuswal wrote: »
    He meant he had the flu or other short term illness

    Or crabs?


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    #363
    madmaggie
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    "Spare the electric", or was that only in my house?


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    #364
    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    piuswal wrote: »
    He meant he had the flu or other short term illness
    Are you sure? Dose can also be a derogatory term for a person that you find annoying, as in "Yer wan is a right dose".


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    #365
    miamee
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    P. Breathnach wrote: »
    Are you sure? Dose can also be a derogatory term for a person that you find annoying, as in "Yer wan is a right dose".

    In the context of being in bed with a dose, I'd take that to mean a dose of the flu/a bug of some sort. In England I'm guessing they'd say "I'm in bed, poorly" or I'm unwell in bed" or something similar.


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    #366
    El_Duderino 09
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    This is something that could only happen in Ireland.

    We had a house in the countryside and planted pear trees. Moved to another house nearby so the new owners would drop us up a bag of pears each year and leave it at the door.

    This happened as normal last year and a few days later the postman saw my mother and told her "them pears were lovely but jaysus there was fierce roughage in the skins. Felt it on the way out"

    The fuffer helped himself and had the cheek to comment on the fiber content.


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    #367
    Polar101
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    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 went to a cinema with a Canadian, I bought a coke and he wanted the same so he said "large pop" - he ended up with lots of popcorn.


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    #368
    tac foley
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    miamee wrote: »
    In the context of being in bed with a dose, I'd take that to mean a dose of the flu/a bug of some sort. In England I'm guessing they'd say "I'm in bed, poorly" or I'm unwell in bed" or something similar.

    In UK if you say you have a dose, it usually means a 'dose of the clap' - a venereal disease of one kind or the other.

    Depending where you are are in England there are many ways that you say that you have been taken to your bed with some kind of illness.

    'He's taken to his bed' doesn't mean that somebody has put him there, but that he has been forced to stay there because of some kind of illness. You generally hear 'He took to his bed' which has the same meaning.

    tac


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    #369
    Tombo2001
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    tac foley wrote: »
    So how, my Welsh wife asks, would an Irish person pronounce Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant?

    Or maybe just Ymddiradolaeth Genadlaethol Cymru?

    tac


    hmm....is that 'would an Irish person pronounce it' or 'how would an Irish person pronounce it'.......


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    #370
    SMJSF
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    When I was staying up in Donegal, I heard someone say "wha abou cha" (what about you) ..... I was told it was their way of saying how are you/things... how is a Dublin person supposed to know how to answer that!!?


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    #371
    Renegade Mechanic
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    Tiocaigh ár lá..


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    #372
    eternal
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    I'll tear the hole off ya.


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    #373
    FunLover18
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    Apparently the English don't 'give out' to people


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    #374
    RobbingBandit
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    Whopper, still no idea why loads of Irish say this to indicate something is good.

    I'm Irish myself btw.


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    #375
    bodhi085
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    Being an English fella here for 15 years now and I went to a club the first week of moving over and some girl said "sorry" as she stood there waiting to get past. Had me baffled. Now I've been here that long that I'm always saying Irish sayings like that. My family in the uk would be wondering the stuff I come out with on Skype. Runners (trainers) rashers (bacon) bye bye bye!!!


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    #376
    languagenerd
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    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Apparently the English don't 'give out' to people

    No, they "tell them off" or "scold" them.

    And some of them seem to think that "giving out" must be some sort of sex reference :pac:


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    #377
    tac foley
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    SMJSF wrote: »
    When I was staying up in Donegal, I heard someone say "wha abou cha" (what about you) ..... I was told it was their way of saying how are you/things... how is a Dublin person supposed to know how to answer that!!?

    In certain parts of Norn Iron they say 'Howzaboutcha?'

    tac


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    #378
    caitie
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    I did a module on this in college! The study of Hiberno- English.

    Their 'bold' is courageous, ours is 'naughty', but we would never actually use the word naughty! When they say 'pants', they mean 'underpants', we mean 'trousers'.

    There's so many it's really interesting! We have different grammatical construction on our sentences and use different phrases.... We even, unknowingly, pronounce words differently because the way English people pronounce them isn't natural on an Irish tongue. For example, 'film' becomes 'filum' because the 'lm' sound doesn't exist in Irish!


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    #379
    tac foley
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    caitie wrote: »
    I did a module on this in college! The study of Hiberno- English.

    Their 'bold' is courageous, ours is 'naughty', but we would never actually use the word naughty! When they say 'pants', they mean 'underpants', we mean 'trousers'.

    There's so many it's really interesting! We have different grammatical construction on our sentences and use different phrases.... We even, unknowingly, pronounce words differently because the way English people pronounce them isn't natural on an Irish tongue. For example, 'film' becomes 'filum' because the 'lm' sound doesn't exist in Irish!

    Americans and Canadians say 'pants' for trousers, but the English do not, unless, of course, they are speaking so-called 'Mid-Atlantic' English which contains many Americanisms.

    My dad, from Cork, had a powerfully thick accent that you could use to sole a boot, and in spite of living in England for many years, lost none of it.

    HE used to say 'fillum', but also the Azoo, rather than the zoo.

    tac


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    #380
    caitie
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    tac foley wrote: »
    Americans and Canadians say 'pants' for trousers, but the English do not, unless, of course, they are speaking so-called 'Mid-Atlantic' English which contains many Americanisms.

    My dad, from Cork, had a powerfully thick accent that you could use to sole a boot, and in spite of living in England for many years, lost none of it.

    HE used to say 'fillum', but also the Azoo, rather than the zoo.

    tac

    We say 'pants' for trousers here in Ireland too, but the English use the word 'pants' when they're talking about 'underpants'.... that particular word has caused some confusion for me a few times! haha

    I must root out my old notes on all this, we did a class on accents as well and they were fair funny!


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    #381
    worded
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    Irish mates living in London in the 80s said no one understood the word "gee". If you were overheard and asked what you meant when you said she had a lovely gee, you could say, it means personality in ireland.


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    #382
    Meteorite58
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    England : 'He has a mental health issue'.

    Ireland: 'He is wired to the moon'.


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    #383
    Sleveile
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    Red Lemonade, unique to Ireland as far as I know.


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    #384
    Seve OB
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    when they are here on holidays and are heading home, they say they are heading "back to the mainland"


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    #385
    bodhi085
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    We call our money euros
    They call it funny money


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    #386
    P. Breathnach
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    tac foley wrote: »
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    'He's taken to his bed' doesn't mean that somebody has put him there, but that he has been forced to stay there because of some kind of illness. You generally hear 'He took to his bed' which has the same meaning....
    In Ireland, "he took to the bed" is often used to say that a person is suffering from depression rather than a somatic illness.


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    P. Breathnach
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    tac foley wrote: »
    In certain parts of Norn Iron they say 'Howzaboutcha?'
    Howzabycha.

    High nigh brine Kai?


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    #388
    saralou2011
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    We say get thick meaning giving out/get mad.
    Over there thick means dumb.


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    #389
    P. Breathnach
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    saralou2011 wrote: »
    We say get thick meaning giving out/get mad.
    It's a while since I heard that one. Do you think it is used less now than in the past?
    Over there thick means dumb.
    There's another meaning of thick which I haven't heard in recent years - meaning close friendship: "Those two, they're very thick with each other". It's similar to the meaning in the expression "as thick as thieves".


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    #390
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    One thing that has been bugging me since I went back to college is my lecturer talking about columes. I have no idea how I went through my whole life without hearing the word colume....then I realised they were talking about columns...bizarre! Is this a normal Irish thing?


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    #391
    languagenerd
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    Basil3 wrote: »
    One thing that has been bugging me since I went back to college is my lecturer talking about columes. I have no idea how I went through my whole life without hearing the word colume....then I realised they were talking about columns...bizarre! Is this a normal Irish thing?

    Yep. I'm currently studying in the UK - myself and the other Irish person in my class get slagged mercilessly for pronouncing it "colume" :D


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