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What Irishism Does Your Head In?

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  • 04-07-2015 9:50am
    #1
    Very Bored
    Registered Users Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭


    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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    #2
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    Can I get tree pints please and tirty Carrols?

    House=Houze
    Us=Uz

    Ya know, Like


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


    Scoops.


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    jacksie66
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,988 ✭✭✭jacksie66


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


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


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    #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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    blackcard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭blackcard


    I should of instead of I should have


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


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


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    #9
    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭s8n


    U ok Hun ?


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


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


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    #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 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.


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    #13
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭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".


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    Deranged96
    Registered Users Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


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

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


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    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭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!


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    #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"


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    #17
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Wompa1


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


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    #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.


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    #19
    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭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.


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    #20
    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Moghead


    jaymcg91 wrote: »
    "Sure look it"

    That one annoys me too.


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    #21
    Wompa1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭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 Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    "Highly"

    Why the hell is this used so much?


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    #23
    idnkph
    Registered Users 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.


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    #24
    Mesrine65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,969 ✭✭✭Mesrine65


    Is it yourself?

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


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    #25
    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭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.


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


    "look-it"


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    #27
    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭Moghead


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

    Don't like it.


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    WesternZulu
    Registered Users Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭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.


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    #29
    Moghead
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭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!


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    #30
    tayto lover
    Registered Users Posts: 51,631 ✭✭✭✭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.


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