Mala or Marla!!!

Ann22

There was a Mormon girl in our class who got to play with an abacus (woohoo!!!) when we were doing religion. Remember the thick Noddy crayons? Cool-I can remember the smell of wax crayons in my little hot hand after colouring for ages.:)

GeturGun

WindSock wrote: »

One kid in my class used to mix all the colours up to make it brown then stab it with his pencil and call it his pooooo which he'd chase us around the classroom with.

LOL. little boys eh?

Reku

I remember I used to love Transformers but they were expensive whereas my mum would regularly buy us mala so I used to make my own transformers with it, little spindly legs and arms, god they were terrible attempts but they kept me entertained.

Gang of Gin

javaboy wrote: »

We should really Irish it up with a fada. Mála ftw!

But would that not just mean "Bag"?:)

Nanook32

It was totally MALA.... Marla is something you say when you're scarlet

"Oh jesus, I was only marla!!"

Ah no, i think my teacher used to call it marla... It made me cringe! Mala ftw

starflake

Maulla

Monkeybonkers

angelika wrote: »

From here http://www.irishdictionary.ie/dictionary

>>plasticine<<
TRANSLATION:
plasticine = n marla m4

We called it marla too. Gaeltacht area (don't know how relevant that is!)

pow wow

morla

Milesoneill

We used to call it Márla. Used to love how after a while all the colours used to get mixed up and turn into a sickly grey colour. Great memories of National School when I'd roll out snakes on a wooden craft board witha pattern of holes in it.

kelle

Definitely Marla. Gaeltacht school too. Thinking of the smell brings back memories - I loved it.

Mála is bag.

salamander27

kelle wrote: »

Definitely Marla. Gaeltacht school too. Thinking of the smell brings back memories - I loved it.

Mála is bag.

Was just about to say that. I made that mistake when i was in high infant or first class. Teacher asks me "Taispeain dom an Mála?" I go to the press to get the Marla! Never made that mistake again! Still scarred 26 years later!

Speaking of irish, did anyone else ever do "Buntús" where comic style irish stories were shown on the projector?

3hn2givr7mx1sc

In my school all the students called it 'mawla' whereas all the teachers called it márla. One of the teachers called it 'moyrla' it souded like a disease.

Holmer

MÁRLA! MÁLA MEANS BAG!

LeSageMignon

I always said Mála, and thought it was just the culchie teachers who said Marla, but a couple of years ago a lecturer from St. Pat's teacher-training college told me that it is in fact Marla. It still sounds wrong to me though.

BluesBerry

Its Marla pronounced M A R L A

Mars Bar

We called it Mála, don't ever remember our teacher(s) writing it on the board so never really wondered how it was spelt.

In saying that, the minute we were given the márla we were entranced by it, so if it was written on the board, we were too occupied to take notice!

Fabio

Mawla ftw!

bellitum

All my primary teachers (1950's!) said 'marla' quite clearly. I never heard 'mala' until I came to Dublin. I assumed it was just another Dublin malapropism (e.g.I got it in the Agros catalogue). The connection with the English word 'marl' seems obvious.
De Bhaldraithe's dictionary (p.532) gives two words for plasticine -Plaistisin (should be a fada on that last 'i'. Can't manage that) agus marla.
Dineen's Focloir Gaeilge agus Bearla (p.717) translates marla as 'marl, a kind of rich clay; marla buidhe, yellow subsoil'. I don't think they played with marla in 1927 when that dictionary was published.

remembering

this thread made me laugh so much today at work when i was dossing!!
used to make the basket to and put the handle on top with the little eggs!! hilarious!!! must check out my old national school and see if the still have the marla!!!

StandardAngel

I always called it mala but my friend is a primary school teacher and she reckons its called marla!

Holmer

MÁRLA

spartan1

I love the way people are "definitely" right

well I am definitely right and the word was "Marla" Facto

fanzhiyidan

anyone have an image of the box it came in?

the purple tin

Mauler

Irishpimpdude

I was never allowed play with it in school as a child, i was one of them children that liked throwing stuff at teachers :cool:

bernardo mac

Used to dig up our own crude Mala/Marla in soggy ground,Quite clayey substance maybe Marl.Messy creative fun.

Rumplstillskin

Look up plasticine in the english irish dictionary. translation : marla

kerash

Marla FACT

gobnaitolunacy

MÁRLA.

Mala is the bastardised modern Irish for Mallow.

Fecking hated when kids squished all the different coloured ones together and all you were left with was sh*tty coloured brown stuff to play with.

ordinary_girl

Called it marla in the school I went to. And since we're talking about Irish, did anyone else here watch those Muzzy Mór videos in primary school? I remember he ate clocks, and being a 6 year old I was curious about how clocks tasted because he seemed to really enjoy eating the clocks. Glad my curiosity went no further!