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ah sure!

  • 10-08-2011 04:13PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭


    Don't laugh if this is general knowledge, but it came to me in a flash of light today.
    "muise" is used as an interjectory term in Irish, as we know.
    Well, I was reading "Dubliners" and a man says "Musha, God be with them", and then a few lines later he says " "" 'Usha, poor Joe!"
    Is this the origin of "Sure, it's a great day!" ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    I doubt it, nbrome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭nbrome


    Oh, I'm disappointed.
    Musha...Usha...Sure: all used in the same way.
    do you really think there is no connection?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭An gal gréine


    nbrome wrote: »
    Oh, I'm disappointed.
    Musha...Usha...Sure: all used in the same way.
    do you really think there is no connection?

    I meant just the "sure" bit.
    Musha certainly does come from "muise" (in Donegal it's "maise", and in Conamara it's "muis")


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