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A "Lock" of cars / local vernacular

  • 03-09-2007 4:23pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    anyone ever hear this one? I heard it up in Donegal on a couple of occasions - "a lock of pints" "a lock of cars" - it means "a lot" (and no, I made sure that's not what they were saying!). I was just wondering how widespread it is. Another one I've only heard in Donegal is the use of the word "mind" for "remember": "I mind that time when you got that new car..."


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  • Administrators, Sports Moderators Posts: 21,676 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭smashey


    tbh wrote:
    anyone ever hear this one? I heard it up in Donegal on a couple of occasions - "a lock of pints" "a lock of cars" - it means "a lot" (and no, I made sure that's not what they were saying!). I was just wondering how widespread it is. Another one I've only heard in Donegal is the use of the word "mind" for "remember": "I mind that time when you got that new car..."
    To me, a lock of points would mean a few.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    I've never heard that used!

    A localism I've heard recently is Scottish people saying someone's "coming through" instead of visiting or "coming to".

    IE. "My mum's coming through this weekend."


  • Administrators, Sports Moderators Posts: 21,676 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭smashey


    Faith wrote:
    I've never heard that used!
    Come to Donegal Faith. ;)

    I mind having a lock of pints last Friday. :D Also, the local vernacular here can be quite similar to Ulster Scots. :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭eyeball kid


    We'd say it in Leitrim as well.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 34,942 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    A "loch" of pints or whatever, indicating a large quantity, lakes full, fairly common throughout Ulster.

    Does anyone else use "rake" in a similar fashion or is that just a Carlow-Kilkenny thing?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 404 ✭✭delos


    tbh wrote: »
    Another one I've only heard in Donegal is the use of the word "mind" for "remember": "I mind that time when you got that new car..."
    This would be fairly common in South West Scotland too.


  • Administrators, Sports Moderators Posts: 21,676 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭smashey


    A "loch" of pints or whatever, indicating a large quantity, lakes full, fairly common throughout Ulster.

    Does anyone else use "rake" in a similar fashion or is that just a Carlow-Kilkenny thing?

    "Rake" is commonly used in Donegal as well. In context it would be "there was a whole rake of them".


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,653 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Does anyone else use "rake" in a similar fashion or is that just a Carlow-Kilkenny thing?

    Yup, I'd use rake too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 260 ✭✭pdebarra


    Another one up here is "lost", where the rest of the country would say "lose" - "Don't you lost that now!".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,914 ✭✭✭✭tbh


    there was a fella on the radio this morning from Donegal, saying he was delivering sandwiches to a loch of shops around Sligo. It's bad that the first thing I thought of was this thread :)


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,769 Mod ✭✭✭✭nuac


    "Lock" (or loch) and "rake" are also commonly used in Mayo to mean a good quantity of anything.

    Also in Mayo there is the term "lockspit"

    When the Land Commission were dividing land into stripes for allotment they marked the divisions by digging up a sod with a spade and leaving the sod so dug out as a marker. That sod was called a "lock-spit"

    Never found out why they did not use solid stakes,


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭volchitsa


    It was common in country parts of Northern Ireland when I was growing up, not so much in Derry or Belfast, afaicr. It means "quite a lot".


  • Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ Jensen Enough Chef


    "Lock" would be more common in the North than in Louth, "rake" is very common in Louth though.


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