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Hurley or Hurl?

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    #92
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    [-0-] wrote: »
    No camán option?
    The "camán" option exists not only in the conversations but also on the polls.
    Are you from an area where "camán" is used or do you use "camán"


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    #93
    cook_my_sock
    Site Banned Posts: 10 ✭cook_my_sock


    " hurl " sounds like puke

    im not from a hurling county but its always been known as a hurley up here

    my mother is from south galway however and always called it a " hurl "


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    #94
    grenache
    Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    Hurl
    Hurley in Limerick
    Hurley in Cork

    "Hurley" is the noun
    "To Hurl" is the verb

    And that's how the English language works.


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    #95
    premierstone
    Registered Users Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Camán
    grenache wrote: »
    Hurley in Limerick
    Hurley in Cork

    "Hurley" is the noun
    "To Hurl" is the verb

    And that's how the English language works.

    lol somehow I don't think hurl/hurley was ever included in the oxford english language.


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    #96
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    Hurl


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    #97
    earlytobed
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭earlytobed


    Camán
    grenache wrote: »
    Hurley in Limerick
    Hurley in Cork

    "Hurley" is the noun
    "To Hurl" is the verb

    And that's how the English language works.

    and some places have their own way of saying it ......"Hurl"
    ...like Kilkenny.


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    #98
    Cuchulainn2012
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Cuchulainn2012


    Camán
    Official guide has the aggressive foul
    'To strike or to attempt to strike an opponent, with a hurley'

    Although I'm a hurl man myself.

    What gets me boiling is when some non-hurling gob****e says let me see you hurley bat - ah would ya quit


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    #99
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    Is there anybody from North Connacht, North Leinster and Ulster that uses camán, hurl, hurley or some other alternative


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    #100
    blue onion
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭blue onion


    stereomatic wrote: »
    Is there anybody from North Connacht, North Leinster and Ulster that uses camán, hurl, hurley or some other alternative
    They dont hurl up there


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    #101
    premierstone
    Registered Users Posts: 7,706 ✭✭✭premierstone


    Camán
    blue onion wrote: »
    They dont hurl up there

    Plenty of hurling strongholds in Roscommon, Meath, Dublin, Antrim, Derry, Down and Im sure a few more.

    And plenty of passionate people in those areas that do plenty to promote and develop the game.


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    #102
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    There is no mention of what it is called in the following counties

    Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Derry, Donegal, Down, Fermanagh, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon, Sligo, Tyrone, Westmeath


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    #103
    Cuchulainn2012
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭Cuchulainn2012


    Camán
    Cuchulainn2012 wrote: »
    Official guide has the aggressive foul
    'To strike or to attempt to strike an opponent, with a hurley'

    Although I'm a hurl man myself.

    What gets me boiling is when some non-hurling gob****e says let me see you hurley bat - ah would ya quit

    I'm Armagh based and were predominately hurl people


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    #104
    Akrasia
    Registered Users Posts: 22,271 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Hurl
    Sorry for dragging up this old thread but It's driving me mad

    It's Hurley!!

    The verb is 'to hurl', the game is hurling, and the equipment used to hit the sliotar is a Hurley.

    'a hurl' just sounds so wrong.


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    #105
    joeguevara
    Registered Users Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭joeguevara


    Hurl is the verb i.e. You hurl with a hurley. I'm from Tipp though.


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    #106
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Camán
    Akrasia wrote: »

    'a hurl' just sounds so wrong.

    Apart from in some (I'd say most) hurling counties where they call it a hurl. Words can have double meanings. 'Hurley' sounds like what and American or English person would say when encountering a hurl. Probably technically correct but just weird. Like calling a Full forward his technically correct term of full centre forward


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    #107
    stereomatic
    Registered Users Posts: 2,376 ✭✭✭stereomatic


    Camán
    Can we get back to the OP (Original Post) stating what we call the stick, what county we're from and what part of the county we're from


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    #108
    Mouth of the South
    Registered Users Posts: 162 ✭✭Mouth of the South


    Hurl
    It's a hurley, and calling it anything else is plain wrong and lazy. Like calling a handled receptacle for carrying coal a 'buck' or like calling the implement used for putting the coal into the bucket a 'shov'. I notice that those Dubs who discovered this strange Irish game of hurling circa 2011 have taken this midlands nomenclature as being the norm.


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    #109
    Hulk Hands
    Registered Users Posts: 6,014 ✭✭✭Hulk Hands


    Camán
    Have to laugh at the people using the English language as their argument and saying hurl is a lazy abbreviation. The item clearly has two words that describe it, its not hard to figure out and neither is the one true and only name for it. People on about nouns etc are talking nonsense also. You can play football with a football you know, same way you can hurl with a hurl


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