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Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

  • 19-09-2014 10:24pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭


    Living in England, I've noticed things I say that no one in England says. Here are a couple of examples.

    What They Say: Cupboard
    What We Say: Press

    What They Say: Pub Quiz
    What We Say: Table Quiz

    Anyone who's lived in England notice any other examples?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Irish call a swede a turnip! A turnip is a different vegetable entirely!

    "out the gap" for leaving somewhere..(i think)

    topper for a pencil sharpener

    you Irish are weird :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭is mise spartacus


    Family says bacon, I say rashers


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 625 ✭✭✭roadsmart


    I was saying goodbye to an English person recently and I said "good luck". He looked genuinely perplexed and said "why, is something going to happen?"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Irish call a swede a turnip! A turnip is a different vegetable entirely!

    That's what makes them so bloody hard to find in Tesco.
    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    "out the gap" for leaving somewhere..(i think)

    I've never heard that before. Where was the person you heard using it from?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    My brother in law says it. He's from atymon in county galway


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    Out the gap. One of the lads at work uses that a lot. Hes from the Mayo\roscommon border. "Well get this **** done and then out the gap"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    Out the gap. One of the lads at work uses that a lot. Hes from the Mayo\roscommon border. "Well get this **** done and then out the gap"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭PixelTrawler


    Out the gap. One of the lads at work uses that a lot. Hes from the Mayo\roscommon border. "Well get this **** done and then out the gap"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    They say: Empire

    We Say: Oppression


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    roadsmart wrote: »
    I was saying goodbye to an English person recently and I said "good luck". He looked genuinely perplexed and said "why, is something going to happen?"

    That's gas altogether


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Yup that's it exactly pix!


  • Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭The Gibzilla


    "I will, yeah" in a certain tone in Ireland translates to "No, not a chance."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Irish person: What's the craic?

    English person: /looks at ceiling " I think there may have been a leak at some point"

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 790 ✭✭✭Sciprio


    "Are you going to the ploughing this year?"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    A school teacher friend let slip the word "copies" when referring to "workbooks" in a class of 12yr olds recently. . .he was met with dumb silence.

    One I have only discovered recently and I don't know how far reaching it is but I told an English friend that the score of a match was "nil all". It took him a minute to cop what I meant and then he said, "oh you mean nil nil".

    Where I would say something was "at home", they would say "in doors".

    Too tired to think of any more just now. . .


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    I lived over in UK for over ten years..other words or sayings I've come across:

    We say: Cop on
    They say: Pack it in

    We say: that's bold
    They say: that's naughty

    We say: tea or coffee?
    They say: brew?

    Also the English for some reason can't say the name Cathal correctly - pretty amusing. Comes out sounding like Karl


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    We would use numpty for an idiot..i don't hear that over here so id guess that's an English thing, or a my family thing anyway!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    theteal wrote: »
    A school teacher friend let slip the word "copies" when referring to "workbooks" in a class of 12yr olds recently. . .he was met with dumb silence.

    I work in a school, and have said copies before. I try to say 'exercise books' by copybooks slips out sometimes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Comes out sounding like Karl

    thats how ye pronounce carol over here though! My mother got very annoyed at first when we moved over!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    Hot press, the looks you get when you say hot press!!!!!!!

    Airing cupboard is apparently the English translation :):):)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Layinghen wrote: »
    Hot press, the looks you get when you say hot press!!!!!!!

    Airing cupboard is apparently the English translation :):):)

    that's a good one! I had forgotten that


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    thats how ye pronounce carol over here though! My mother got very annoyed at first when we moved over!

    Oh yeah, I didn't even realise that. My English friends used to tease me when I would say salt..they said it sounds like I am saying assault


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,694 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Sorry about these being so obvious,but anyway:

    Eejit - Idiot
    Stephen's Day - Boxing Day
    Soccer - Football

    Do they say "spuds" in England?

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Ah it goes both ways..we cant say anything like half(harf) grass(gr-arse), four( foor) without getting the piss taken out of us!

    the letter H... Dunno if its all of you but most irish pronounce it hay-ch


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    the letter H... Dunno if its all of you but most irish pronounce it hay-ch

    Most Irish do, but plenty of English do as well.

    I personally pronounce it 'Aitch', but that's because I teach English and that is technically how it should be pronounced.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Damn..erase that so haha

    ohh..Wisht!
    Never heard of that till i came to the west!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    I work in a school, and have said copies before. I try to say 'exercise books' by copybooks slips out sometimes.

    I would always say copy why can it not be used in the classroom


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    They call Ireland Island, America is Americur. They call the ground the floor, they still can't distinguish between outdoors and indoors :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Did anyone ever notice when they go to stay with friends/family in england that they would drink tea all day and nothing to eat with it..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,349 ✭✭✭scruff monkey
    Snarky Snark Snark


    Also the English for some reason can't say the name Cathal correctly - pretty amusing. Comes out sounding like Karl

    being one, Karl would be better than most of the mangled oral atrocities visited upon my name when abroad or dealing with non local clients.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    Seasan wrote: »
    Stephen's Day - Boxing Day


    See I don't get this. I know lots of people say the latter, have done my whole life. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    being one, Karl would be better than most of the mangled oral atrocities visited upon my name when abroad or dealing with non local clients.

    Niamh is another name that they find difficult


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭goz83


    The word "the" almost doesn't exist with the ordinary english person.

    "I'm going down pub"

    "Put bag down"

    "I am best"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭goz83


    mod9maple wrote: »
    See I don't get this. I know lots of people say the latter, have done my whole life. :confused:

    proddy!!! Get him :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    being one, Karl would be better than most of the mangled oral atrocities visited upon my name when abroad or dealing with non local clients.

    We eventually figured out how to get them to pronounce it correctly..many many years later like!
    Get them to say ALCOHOL and then drop the AL


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,711 ✭✭✭Waitsian


    goz83 wrote: »
    proddy!!! Get him :pac:

    Har, har (and yes I know you're being facetious). :D Coming from Newry though, I do know quite a few of our British co-inhabitants on this fine isle of ours.

    But seriously, a lot of people use Boxing Day, myself included. And their 'cultural' background doesn't come into it. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Siobhan!!
    see o ban was how my mum first pronounced it. Poor woman makes bday cakes over here and it is essential for her to get the customers to spell out the name.

    and what's wrong with having just tea!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    The first time I was in the Canaries I went into a shop with a plastic bag when this old woman came over to me and kept saying leaf the bag. I was thinking WTF does she want me to lift the bag for :confused: until I clicked she was trying to say leave the bag.


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭kurtainsider


    Go handy = Slow down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    After dinner we have dessert, they have "pudding"

    When we feel like Sh!te, they feel "poorly"


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    See o baann for Siobhán
    Eaowin for Eoin


  • Registered Users Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    What's a dead give away that your from Ireland when over there is saying "I'm grand"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    Runners/takkies for trainers..and pants for trousers


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭deise08


    Rubber-eraser.
    topper- sharpener.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Runners/takkies for trainers..and pants for trousers

    Also what we call Runners they say Trainers but they also call briefs / boxers pants we call them what they they are Jocks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭NTC


    A glass = A half

    We say => A glass of Guinness
    They say => A half a Guinness

    Nearly removed from a bar one time when I asked for a "pint and glass of Guinness", barman thought I was being smart asking for a " pint in a glass "


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭deise08


    :) it's just down the road :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    Was over there recently Manchester area was visiting family they kept saying "would you like a drink" and i was saying it was a bit early n the day. But what they meant was would you have a cup of tea / coffee


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    bob50 wrote: »
    Was over there recently Manchester area was visiting family they kept saying "would you like a drink" and i was saying it was a bit early n the day. But what they meant was would you have a cup of tea / coffee

    And never a biscuit offered!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,331 ✭✭✭deise08


    We say-Flogs.
    They say-flumps/marshmallows.


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