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What Irishism Does Your Head In?

  • 04-07-2015 08:50AM
    #1
    Very Bored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Very Bored


    OK, in the 21st century with political correctness and all it would seem wrong to have a pop at the Brits and the Americans without having a laugh at ourselves, so...

    You can pick things from other counties or your own...

    From my own county... referring to both girls and boys as lads. Lads are boys.

    Those witty bards who when you say "well" to them reply "well water"... oh my sides are splitting.

    The inability in this county to pronounce a t which comes anywhere other than the start of a word. Can I have a glass of wa-er, where is the toileh...


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Comments

  • #2
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Can I get tree pints please and tirty Carrols?

    House=Houze
    Us=Uz

    Ya know, Like


  • #3
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Scoops.


  • #4
    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


    This post has been deleted.


  • #5
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Confusing "been" and "being" and "taught" with "thought".


  • #6
    Boskowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭Boskowski


    'would of, could of' and the likes. I mean one thing saying it as its hard to tell the difference when speaking fast, but in writing? Seriously?


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  • #7
    blackcard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,232 ✭✭✭blackcard


    I should of instead of I should have


  • #8
    Samaris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    three - tree
    loike/like (or any variant thereof)
    BOI - argh, enough with "boi", boi.


  • #9
    s8n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,847 ✭✭✭s8n


    U ok Hun ?


  • #10
    RhubarbCrumble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,174 ✭✭✭RhubarbCrumble


    I'm with Boskowski and blackcard. The whole would/of thing really makes my blood boil.


  • #11
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    "It has to be done cos it has to be done".
    The valley of squinting windows.


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  • #12
    Your Superior
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    "Happy out" annoys the crap out of me. It makes no sense!

    And as for the idiots that say "troath" and "modren" and "heighth" the less said the better.


  • #13
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    "'it'll do"

    Usually uttered by the 5 gormless fat ****es leaning on their shovels watching one guy **** some tarmac at a pothole and calling it "good work".


  • #14
    Deranged96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    "Gurl! Fab photo sexy woman so jealousy hun xxx"

    "No Katie stop! Ur the princess I look like a dog :( xxx"


  • #15
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    "Gurl! Fab photo sexy woman so jealousy hun xxx"

    "No Katie stop! Ur the princess I look like a dog :( xxx"

    Awwww..Babez!


  • #16
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    The whole "Ah shure" thing.

    "This is wrong"
    "Ah sure"

    "This is broken"
    "Ah sure"

    "This is the wrong order"
    "Ah sure"


  • #17
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Sure, sometimes I do be fierce hungry for a hang sangich


  • #18
    jaymcg91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭jaymcg91


    "Ah here"

    "Shure look it"

    *House burns down*
    "Ah shure it'll be grand"

    Three immediate bugbears that come to mind :D.


  • #19
    Moghead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Moghead


    On the beer.

    It'll be grand.

    Crips.

    Pacific instead of specific.

    putting an s after you everytime you use the word.

    Overuse of literally.


  • #20
    Moghead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Moghead


    jaymcg91 wrote: »
    "Sure look it"

    That one annoys me too.


  • #21
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,256 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Moghead wrote: »
    That one annoys me too.

    argh ah sure, look it. You'll have that.


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  • #22
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    "Highly"

    Why the hell is this used so much?


  • #23
    idnkph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Grammar nazi's are in every county. Pretentious w**kbags that have to abide by what the old English gentry pushed on our country hundreds of years ago and want to correct others on how they talk or write to make themselves feel relevant.
    Its buying into the old prejudice that still exists since they invaded and raped our beautiful country.


  • #24
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,950 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Is it yourself?

    No, it's my fooking doppelganger you ludraman :rolleyes:


  • #25
    Moghead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Moghead


    idnkph wrote: »
    Grammar nazi's are in every county. Pretentious w**kbags that have to abide by what the old English gentry pushed on our country hundreds of years ago and want to correct others on how they talk or write to make themselves feel relevant.
    Its buying into the old prejudice that still exists since they invaded and raped our beautiful country.

    It'll be grand, we're not pacifically talking about yous.


  • #26
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    "look-it"


  • #27
    Moghead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Moghead


    The rhyming slang used by some people in Dublin. Brown Bread, Cream Cracker.

    Don't like it.


  • #28
    WesternZulu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,999 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    'Well lad?'
    Jesus, I hate that phrase!!
    It only seems to have crept in over the last few years.

    'Hon {generic sports team}'
    A phrase that didn't exist 5 years ago and now everyone uses it.


  • #29
    Moghead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭Moghead


    WesternZulu wrote: »
    'Well lad?'
    Jesus, I hate that phrase!!
    It only seems to have crept in over the last few years.

    'Hon {generic sports team}'
    A phrase that didn't exist 5 years ago and now everyone uses it.

    Hon is really annoying alright.

    Hon team!


  • #30
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53,880 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    People from north of Dublin saying they're going "up" to Dublin.
    They're going "down" to Dublin.


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  • #31
    Rabo Karabekian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭Rabo Karabekian


    Boskowski wrote: »
    'would of, could of' and the likes. I mean one thing saying it as its hard to tell the difference when speaking fast, but in writing? Seriously?

    That's not unique to Ireland, though. It used to annoy me, but there are plenty of (non-Irish) writers (Cormac McCarthy & Margaret Atwood) that use it to convey the natural way in speech of contracting 'would' and 'have' (instead of using would've, for example).

    Lots of things in this thread that are not unique to Ireland.


  • #32
    Gavlor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,200 ✭✭✭Gavlor


    I/We can't survive on the dole, I might even have to cancel sky sports....

    Go get a f&cking job then you parasite on society

    Edit, that's probably one we share with Britain!


  • #33
    Very Bored
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭Very Bored


    idnkph wrote: »
    Grammar nazi's are in every county. Pretentious w**kbags that have to abide by what the old English gentry pushed on our country hundreds of years ago and want to correct others on how they talk or write to make themselves feel relevant.
    Its buying into the old prejudice that still exists since they invaded and raped our beautiful country.

    Fháil amach an leaba ar an taobh mícheart?


  • #34
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭5rtytry56


    What! You're on the dole!!?? You MUST only buy from Aldi or Lidl. Or I'll report you to the welfare inspector. That's the way things are.


  • #35
    Nib
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Nib


    "Anyhow"


  • #36
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,785 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye.


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  • #37
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,785 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    And when somebody starts saying something with 'listen,...'

    I am listening you d!ck.


  • #38
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,374 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    osarusan wrote: »
    And when somebody starts saying something with 'listen,...'

    I am listening you d!ck.

    At least it has the advantage of being shorter than "C'mere till I tell ya"


  • #39
    idnkph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭idnkph


    Very Bored wrote: »
    Fháil amach an leaba ar an taobh mícheart?

    I sleep in a hammock


  • #40
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Childer...

    Just annoys me when I hear that phrase...

    Waher...that's like nails on a blackboard to me

    Says I to him, says him to me....ffs


  • #41
    Cold War Kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,353 ✭✭✭Cold War Kid


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    "Gurl! Fab photo sexy woman so jealousy hun xxx"

    "No Katie stop! Ur the princess I look like a dog :( xxx"
    CruelCoin wrote: »
    "Highly"

    Why the hell is this used so much?
    It's a standard word I guess?

    Not sure how any of the above is unique to Ireland.


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  • #42
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    Adults who refer to each other as 'lads'. It's sooo juvenile, the same fcukwits probably still refer to each other by nickname.:rolleyes:


  • #43
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,465 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    "C'mere till i tell ye, they does be tellin' me dat he be goin' down de pub ta say da lads right"

    What? :(


  • #44
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,196 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Adults who refer to each other as 'lads'. It's sooo juvenile, the same fcukwits probably still refer to each other by nickname.:rolleyes:

    Yes. Goose, Tyre-weld, Godzilla and Useless will be drinking porter below in Jacksie's this evening. :)


  • #45
    mawk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭mawk


    Sure rent is only dead money!


  • #46
    jaymcg91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭jaymcg91


    Pumpkinseeds wrote: »
    Adults who refer to each other as 'lads'. It's sooo juvenile, the same fcukwits probably still refer to each other by nickname.:rolleyes:

    Drives me mad too. Men in their 30s and 40s still thinking they're young "lads" :eek:.


  • #47
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    COYBIG ...

    :mad:


  • #48
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    Fine beur!
    How's that man?!

    And when people can't pronounce committee properly & say
    ,T (Say what you see)


  • #49
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Bring instead of take!

    Very rarely will you hear 'take' being used here in a sentence.

    I'm bringing the kids to school.
    I'm bringing the car to the garage.
    I'll bring the dog to the vet . . .


  • #50
    Vomit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Vomit


    Boskowski wrote: »
    'would of, could of' and the likes. I mean one thing saying it as its hard to tell the difference when speaking fast, but in writing? Seriously?

    That's not an Irish-ism. You find this all over England as well.


  • #51
    Vomit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Vomit


    You know, it seems AH goes around in a circle. There must have been a million threads like this. One such thread was stolen almost word for word by Republic of Telly, to make up material for their 'You know you're Irish when...' skit.


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