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The word "craic"

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  • #62
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    Bottle_of_Smoke wrote: »
    its a originally a word from the scots dialect. "craic" is liek a gaelicisation of it

    True. But why?


  • #63
    du Maurier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭du Maurier


    Cill Dara Abu wrote: »
    Hate when people say "whats the craic?" What the hell am I supposed to say to that!


    Thank you for this. I feel the same way about this one and have for quite a while. I had a minor rant about it to people I went to college with.

    I was never sure how to answer that question. It's an unnatural line of questioning. I think I used to say, "I don't know".


  • #64
    Orando Broom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,351 ✭✭✭Orando Broom


    In the future we will have the KRAKK!!!


  • #65
    dpe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭dpe


    Opelfruit wrote: »
    It's an English word, the roots of which are firmly in the English language such as "cracking a joke". It's various forms went out of usage in other English speaking countries but due to a process known as colonial lag it continued to be used in Ireland. As there is no "K" in the Irish language its spelling had to be changed for use in that medium, hence "crack" becoming "craic" in that language. Usage of the word, in the Irish context, is becoming popular again in Britain.

    Beat me to it. Always makes me laugh when Irish people moan about foreigners using "their" word.


  • #66
    Bottle_of_Smoke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,770 ✭✭✭Bottle_of_Smoke


    Richard wrote: »
    True. But why?

    I'd say people just thought it was an irish word because its used so much here. Then other people saw them spelling it "craic" so then probably believed the english word came from the irish rather than the other way around.


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  • #67
    Novella
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,713 ✭✭✭✭Novella


    What's the craic / Any craic / Having the craic.

    I hate all of those. Really hate.


  • #68
    hatz7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭hatz7


    Wow, its funny that a word that just happens to be our vocabulary can upset and bring out so much bile in some people.

    I think, because there are so many of you out there I may have to start using it all the time to bring it out of ye in public,

    It'll be great craic


  • #69
    rusty_racer94
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭rusty_racer94


    When I was new in Ireland, people used to ask me ''What's the criac? '' and I used to be totally puzzled, now I just say, '' It's just getting wider..''


  • #70
    hatz7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 303 ✭✭hatz7


    Orando Broom wrote: »
    In the future we will have the KRAKK!!!

    classic :D


  • #71
    Chris P. Bacon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭Chris P. Bacon


    I say it everyday,most times when i see someone ill say "Whats the craic boy",to which they will reply "Ah fuck all boy".

    I cant believe there is so many people on here bothered about a word,get out more and enjoy the craic ffs :)


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