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Hurley or Hurl?

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    #62
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    feelingstressed wrote: »
    In Tipp it is a hurley, a noun

    "Hurl" is something you do, a verb, I hurl with my friend on the pitch
    Only a lazy person says hurl



    You put in Carlow and leave out Cork and Tipp, yeah??? :pac:

    of course that's why there's no Tipp player on the Sunday game team of the year so far lol


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    #63
    An Citeog
    Registered Users Posts: 3,096 ✭✭✭An Citeog


    Camán
    jordainius wrote: »
    Damn it this thread should have come with a poll!

    Ask and you shall receive!;)


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    #64
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Hurl
    derealbadger wrote: »
    its a hurl I would call you names but I just don't have the energy

    Why would you call me names?


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    #65
    Big Ears
    Registered Users Posts: 8,967 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    Camán
    feelingstressed wrote: »
    In Tipp it is a hurley, a noun

    "Hurl" is something you do, a verb, I hurl with my friend on the pitch
    Only a lazy person says hurl



    You put in Carlow and leave out Cork and Tipp, yeah??? :pac:

    I'm guessing you're from South Tipp ?


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    #66
    Rowley Birkin QC
    Registered Users Posts: 6,221 ✭✭✭Rowley Birkin QC


    Hurl
    derealbadger wrote: »
    in Kildare you are probably right but in the real hurling county's with the exception of Waterford and Limerick you are wrong bit like us telling the Aussies the correct terminology for Aussie rules

    A real hurling county like Cork perhaps? As in where I'm from. Like.

    It's a hurley.


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    #67
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    Why would you call me names?

    not everybody gets sarcasm


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    #68
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Hurl
    derealbadger wrote: »
    not everybody gets sarcasm

    That was sarcasm?

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sarcasm


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    #69
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    Minstrel27 wrote: »
    That was sarcasm?

    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sarcasm

    yes exactly

    from your link describes it very well

    he used sarcasm to upset his opponent irony is wasted on the stupid


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    #70
    Minstrel27
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭Minstrel27


    Hurl
    derealbadger wrote: »
    yes exactly

    from your link describes it very well

    he used sarcasm to upset his opponent irony is wasted on the stupid

    Nice attempt at a dig right there. You merged two sentences to make one. Aren't you the clever boy. Ironic really as your post had no irony in it either.


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    #71
    Squareball2010
    Registered Users Posts: 80 ✭✭Squareball2010


    Hurl
    Its gotta be a hurley! Down in the Rebel County and thats what we've always called them! :rolleyes:


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    #72
    jwcurtin
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭jwcurtin


    Camán
    HURL


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    #73
    munsterrugby09
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭munsterrugby09


    defintley hurley down our way......


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    #74
    Starie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    fjsanchez wrote: »
    i think in galway its hurls but i could be wrong

    You're not totally incorrect, half the county calls it a hurl, the rest of us call it by its proper name - Camán.



    OP you should add Camán to your poll.


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    #75
    Starie1975
    Registered Users Posts: 570 ✭✭✭Starie1975


    Bob_Harris wrote: »
    Welcome to an English speaking nation, get over it.

    Not in my town Robbie.


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    #76
    fricatus
    Registered Users Posts: 5,081 ✭✭✭fricatus


    cladafella wrote: »
    "hurdle"

    LOL, brilliant :D

    Great first post, welcome to Boards!


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    #77
    derealbadger
    Registered Users Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭derealbadger


    Camán
    Starie1975 wrote: »
    You're not totally incorrect, half the county calls it a hurl, the rest of us call it by its proper name - Camán.



    OP you should add Camán to your poll.

    the half that play hurling call it a hurl


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    #78
    MementoMori
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,492 ✭✭✭MementoMori


    Hurl
    Patsy fyre wrote: »
    Its generally called hurley in hurling playing counties and hurl in counties which ase dominated by football.

    just to throw in my 0.02 cents ....... in the heart of the Kingdom (Killarney)with our proud hurling tradition :p we always called them hurleys, whenever we came accross one, which wasnt that often. I think it's far to say that Kerry might be slightly more of a footballing country :p

    Still scare me a bit on a deep instinctual level :D


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    #79
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    I know its an old thread but I think it needs a resurrection

    I think it would be a great idea if we could attempt to work out the boundaries of where these words are used

    Nouns and verbs are often spelled the same e.g. "boss" and "to boss" and I don't think it's a legitimate reason for a difference, I believe the only difference can be as a result of regional usage

    Being from County Wexford I use the word "Hurl" and I know a number of people on the eastern side of County Waterford that use the same word

    I know a number of people from Mayo that use "Camán" and I remember in my youth in the eighties the word "camán" was used more often (in English) and in an old book that I read a number of years ago (now lost) it referred to the stick as a "common". I can't remember how old the book was nor do I remember the name of the book


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    #80
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    It's generally a hurl in Mid-Connacht, although that doesn't count for much.


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    #81
    jaffamuncher
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭jaffamuncher


    Hurl
    a hurley in the banner


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    #82
    Pudders
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Pudders


    Camán
    A hurl in Kilkenny.


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    #83
    erkifino
    Registered Users Posts: 848 ✭✭✭erkifino


    Hurl
    hurley.jpg


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    #84
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    If we assume the south border where "hurl" is used is Galway, North Tipperary, Kilkenny and Wexford and if we assume from an earler post by GAAman on page 1 of this thread that they say "hurley batons" in West Belfast then another question needs to be asked which is where is the northern border of where "hurl" is said

    Also T don't think a county border can be used as a dialect border and between these dialect borders there must be areas where both words are used equally

    Also are there isolated areas in the "hurley zone" where "hurl" is said and in the "hurl zone" where "hurley" is said


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    #85
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Camán
    Wicklow - hurl all the way.


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    #86
    mohawk
    Registered Users Posts: 1,781 ✭✭✭mohawk


    Hurl
    stereomatic wrote: »
    If we assume the south border where "hurl" is used is Galway, North Tipperary, Kilkenny and Wexford

    Never heard the word hurl ever used in north tipp area ever!! although there could be a hurl hotspot on the Offaly border.


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    #87
    Big Ears
    Registered Users Posts: 8,967 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    Camán
    mohawk wrote: »
    Never heard the word hurl ever used in north tipp area ever!! although there could be a hurl hotspot on the Offaly border.

    You serious ?, now maybe around Thurles or out West near Newport/Ballina you'd hear hurley, but Nenagh, Toomevara, Borrisokane, Lorrha, Shannon Rovers, Kilruane, Burgess etc hurl is all you'd hear.

    The vast majority of North Tipp it's Hurl !


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    #88
    premierstone
    Registered Users Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Camán
    Big Ears wrote: »
    You serious ?, now maybe around Thurles or out West near Newport/Ballina you'd hear hurley, but Nenagh, Toomevara, Borrisokane, Lorrha, Shannon Rovers, Kilruane, Burgess etc hurl is all you'd hear.

    The vast majority of North Tipp it's Hurl !

    Can confirm this, Im a North Tipp man and would only ever refer to it as a hurl.


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    #89
    Deskjockey
    Registered Users Posts: 842 ✭✭✭Deskjockey


    Hurl
    From Waterford.

    The correct word is Hurley


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    #90
    Pudders
    Registered Users Posts: 822 ✭✭✭Pudders


    Camán
    Deskjockey wrote: »
    From Waterford.

    The correct word is Hurley

    We're talking about hurls not http://www.redhurley.com/ !


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    #91
    [-0-]
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    Hurl
    No camán option?


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