Colloquialisms

piratio · 23-06-2005 3:04pm #1

Doing a bit of research into the regionalisation of, or replacements for, the word "cool". What I'm looking for is the county you're from and the word you'd use most often for "cool".

e.g. Dublin - "Deadly"
Galway - "Tome"

Don't worry if you see your county listed here already. Keep adding them... The more I have, the more dynamic my project can be. [Questions regarding the form the project will take may be a waste of time [at the moment], as I'm relying on the materials you good people will provide me with to inform the work.

Cheers,

Piratio

simu · 23-06-2005 5:31pm

Cork:

Decent (pronounced day-cent)
Class
Viscious

There are more. There are hundreds of different accents in Cork.

dudara · 24-06-2005 2:44pm

as an aside, something that is not daycent is wook.

ie Liverpool were well wook in the last few matches of the Premiership

hazimel · 27-06-2005 12:36pm

piratio wrote:

Doing a bit of research into the regionalisation of, or replacements for, the word "cool". What I'm looking for is the county you're from and the word you'd use most often for "cool".

I've known people from Dublin to say "Savage" and I've known a person from Carlow (and his friends) to say "Selfish".