Eejit or Eegit

budgemook

I don't really know where to put this so I decided on here. Which word do you use? Eejit or Eegit. I know the papers always say eejit, in fact i don't think i've ever seen eegit in print but I always say eegit. In fact I think eejit sounds stupid. Is this a regional thing?

Tubberadora

I am reading them both the same anyway. Eejit is the prononciation anyway.

Biggins

I just use the long version of spelling it - see below!


























Fianna Fail TD.

AnonoBoy

Eejit.

It's a great insult to teach to foreigners too. A norwegian accent calling you an eejit is hilarious!

mink_man

^^^^^
fail

how do u pronounce eegit?




[EDIT] it's biggins so it can't be a fail.

BaZmO*

It's Idiot ya Dope!

donmeister

wudhqwohofqefds

brummytom

Aren't they both pronounced the same?

Neither.

I prefer wánker

Pop's Diner

Gobshíte.

budgemook

no no no. Eegit is pronounced Ee Git. That's always how i've said it anyways. Eejit (pronounced Ee Jit) is stupid.

rubadub

budgemook wrote: »

I always say eegit. In fact I think eejit sounds stupid. Is this a regional thing?

So you pronounce it E-git as in "jammy git"? if you do you're an eejit.

wudangclan

it's 'eedgit' surely?

AnonoBoy

budgemook wrote: »

no no no. Eegit is pronounced Ee Git. That's always how i've said it anyways. Eejit (pronounced Ee Jit) is stupid.

Eegit is more a country way of saying it, no?

Eejit would be a Dublin pronounciation.

kelle

Amadán

Porkpie

Egypt

Omnomnom

Eejit..perhaps eedgit bit not eegit!!

granturismo

budgemook wrote: »

Is this a regional thing?

The only people I know who pronounce it ee-git are from Meath or living close to Meath.

ee-jit is used by the rest the country incl Dubs. Not sure about Ulster.

yerayeah

Never heard someone say eegit, sounds funny tbh:p

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Eejit FTW... it just sounds more Irish!

budgemook

I think Eegit sounds more Irish. I am actually from near Meath (spit), From Westmeath. All ye eejit sayers are eegits.

Deedsie

Óinseach or Amadán are better terms Female and male versions of the word.

JerryHandbag

rarnes1 wrote: »

wánker

Ah so thats how you spell that word in Irish....sine fada over the letter a
Got ya

Tar.Aldarion

e-git just sounds like most people on here :pac:

I would spell it eejit.

ottostreet

+1 on the teaching foreigners how to say 'fecking eejit'

the accents always make it funnier!

Keogg

its definitely eejit.

Why would it be a G? eegit looks weird when it written, and then it would be pronounced differently

InkSlinger67

Resident of Ballymore-Useless (play on Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare)

I picked that up from my 3rd Year teacher in school and used it ever since, never learned anything else from him though! Funny guy!

SV

mink_man wrote: »

^^^^^
fail

how do u pronounce eegit?




[EDIT] it's biggins so it can't be a fail.

You're a crap troll.

Sofaspud

I was talking to someone in a pub last monday and he said "eegit", I actually stopped the conversation to discuss that word.

Before then I never knew anybody actually pronounced it that way, I thought that any time anyone said eegit, they were saying it in a take-the-piss way.

I think the guy was offalyish

WeeBushy

I think eegit sounds like a type of bird...

Jako8

I say eejit.

I wonder where that word comes from.

WeeBushy

Jako8 wrote: »

I say eejit.

I wonder where that word comes from.

It come from idiot. Culchies came along with their mad accents and changed its pronunciation, presumably for the craic.

Tordelback

I'm in awe.

OP, you do know it's just a regional variant pronunciation of the word 'idiot' (probably id-jot to eed-jot to ee-jit). I just can't see any way of getting 'ee-git' out of 'idiot'.

We really just use 'eejit' in print to show how 'idiot' is being pronounced, it's not really a separate word in itself, any more than 'Dor-sett Street' or 'Dort' are.

Davidius

I demand a recording to hear the difference between the two!

Monkey_Pirate

WeeBushy wrote: »

It come from idiot. Culchies came along with their mad accents and changed its pronunciation, presumably for the craic.

Oh my god. I never knew that. How did I never know that??

budgemook

Davidius wrote: »

I demand a recording to hear the difference between the two!

what are you on about? eejit is EEE JIT and eegit is EEE GIT. What's the problem? Eegit is way better.

budgemook

WeeBushy wrote: »

It come from idiot. Culchies came along with their mad accents and changed its pronunciation, presumably for the craic.

Greenmachine

I feel like an eejit for wasting my time in this thread.