Changing terminology in Ireland

gormdubhgorm

I remember when the Irish Olympic Team used to be just called the "Irish Olympic Team". Or just the Irish team.:(
Now it is "Team Ireland"

I can remember the days when in the Gaelic Football there were no terms like "Offloads", "Transitions", "Blanket Defence" or "Sweepers".:mad:

All of these things annoy me but the final straw for me was that Eason's is now styled as "Eason".:eek:

What is going on with the world at all?

I am sure there are loads more examples of new terminology that replace older words, that were doing a fine job in the first place!

tomwaterford

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

I remember when the Irish Olympic Team used to be just called the "Irish Olympic Team". Or just the Irish Olympic team.:(
!

Wha??

hatrickpatrick

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

What is going on with the world at all at all?

As long as we're talking about Irishisms, FYP.

Talib Fiasco

Jees, talk about white girl problems.

lertsnim

It was a dark day when Marathon changed to Snickers

Annasopra

Whats the Irish olympic team called?

hatrickpatrick

lertsnim wrote: »

It was a dark day when Marathon changed to Snickers

That probably had something to do with celebrating the end of the ice age, or Galway's liberation from Indians.

hatrickpatrick

sugarman wrote: »

Eh it was always " Eason & son"

The Irish ****ing love to 's' at the end of every shop for some reason.

Aldis, lidls, easons, tescos... NOW THAT is what really annoys me

Tesco's in particular. Like WTF, it's not a like it's family run shop named after someone

kneemos

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Whats the Irish olympic team called?

Team Ireland .

gormdubhgorm

tomwaterford wrote: »

Wha??

I left out the "Team Ireland" bit !

The_Valeyard

Well, now that I no longer work here, let me tell you something, you know what REALLY grinds my gears, you America, F*ck you!

Faith+1

So the Irish Olympic Team used to be called the Irish Olympic Team? Hmmmm makes sense....

newmug

I'm with you OP. Our culture is slowly disappearing. I heard a dyed-in-the-wool Fenian like meself calling a film a "movie" yesterday. It depressed me for the whole day.

gormdubhgorm

sugarman wrote: »

Eh it was always " Eason & son"

The Irish ****ing love to 's' at the end of every shop for some reason.

Aldis, lidls, easons, tescos... NOW THAT is what really annoys me

Nope they definitely changed it:
Their website is
http://www.easons.com/books

But the logo now drops the "s" in Eason's I now am expecting free books (for life) for this free advertising!

The ads on radio used to have the "s" in the name too. Nearly fell over in shock at the new ad!

dirkmeister

Sports Utility Vehicle.


As far as I'm concerned, they are jeeps no matter what model they are.

Annasopra

kneemos wrote: »

Team Ireland .

Oh thats so annoying

kneemos

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Oh thats so annoying

What's more annoying is that it's a copy of Team UK.

lertsnim

kneemos wrote: »

What's more annoying is that it's a copy of Team UK.

Team GB

Annasopra

kneemos wrote: »

What's more annoying is that it's a copy of Team UK.

Team GB

eet fuk

I hate it most when people refer to Éire as Ireland.
Shocking.

pablo128

dirkmeister wrote: »

Sports Utility Vehicle.


As far as I'm concerned, they are jeeps no matter what model they are.

Wannabee jeeps, you mean. Most of them are nothing more than jacked up family hatchbacks. Show most of them a muddy field and they would sh1t themselves.

What's the story with 'multiple' being used in posts? I have never heard an Irish person using this word in general conversation. Fcuking Americanisms!:mad:

eet fuk

pablo128 wrote: »

Wannabee jeeps, you mean. Most of them are nothing more than jacked up family hatchbacks. Show most of them a muddy field and they would sh1t themselves.

What's the story with 'multiple' being used in posts? I have never heard an Irish person using this word in general conversation. Fcuking Americanisms!:mad:

You've never heard anyone say 'multiple'?

newmug

eet fuk wrote: »

You've never heard anyone say 'multiple'?

Not in real life, only on tele. Unless it was something like "4 and 3 are multiples of 12"

eet fuk

newmug wrote: »

Not in real life, only on tele. Unless it was something like "4 and 3 are multiples of 12"

Strange one that. I definitely wouldn't consider it to be an 'Americanism'; I'm certain it has always been used throughout all English speaking countries.

Banjoxed

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Tesco's in particular. Like WTF, it's not a like it's family run shop named after someone

You mean that there isn't a nice Mr. Tesco in a white grocer's coat somewhere?

Colser

pablo128 wrote: »

Wannabee jeeps, you mean. Most of them are nothing more than jacked up family hatchbacks. Show most of them a muddy field and they would sh1t themselves.

What's the story with 'multiple' being used in posts? I have never heard an Irish person using this word in general conversation. Fcuking Americanisms!:mad:

Multiple orgasms??:D

Banjoxed

In the dim and distant past (1980s), our Police Service's finest were referred to as either "Guards" or "Gardaí".

Now, our fine young hipsters refer to something called "gards".

*shakes stick*

Buona Fortuna

eet fuk wrote: »

You've never heard anyone say 'multiple'?

Only for orgasms

Gbear

sugarman wrote: »

Eh it was always "Eason & Son"

The Irish ****ing love to 's' at the end of every shop for some reason.

Aldi's, lidl's, Eason's, Tesco's... NOW THAT is what really annoys me

I find it incredibly endearing.:)

One eyed Jack

Colser wrote: »

Multiple orgasms??:D

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

Only for orgasms

Trust you two... :pac:


Anyhow, buns are now called "cupcakes".

The jacks is now called the bathroom, or the washroom, it's not even an outhouse any more (although in fairness we've thankfully evolved from the straw in a bucket!)

D'telly is now known as the "multimedia and entertainment centre".

A hangover is now called "a problem with alcohol".

Billy86

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Nope they definitely changed it:
Their website is
http://www.easons.com/books

But the logo now drops the "s" in Eason's I now am expecting free books (for life) for this free advertising!

The ads on radio used to have the "s" in the name too. Nearly fell over in shock at the new ad!

This book came out five years ago. Check the background.

Je suis tres mal

Tesco's
Is the most annoying Oirishism of them all.

fancy pigeon

dirkmeister wrote: »

Sports Utility Vehicle.


As far as I'm concerned, they are jeeps no matter what model they are.

Or Crossovers

A fancy term for "monstrosity we couldn't be arsed placing in a proper segment, because they are a misfit"

kneemos

A stiff breeze is now a yellow alert.

Fratton Fred

Joeytheparrot wrote: »

Whats the Irish olympic team called?

Katie?

NachoBusiness

Some of these term changes may seem trivial, fancy and superficial but sometimes it can be for the best. Admin on Boards, for example, used to be known as Super Mods and whenever they gave orders they were all but laughed at and ridiculed (much like HMods are still are today). Boardsies would make SuperTed jokes whenever they attempted to moderate threads and even heckle them. They commanded no respect and their silly title was the reason for it, as it totally undermined them and what's more, they knew it, and so after a lengthy but very much successful campaign (which had it's opposition, it has to be said) Supermods became henceforth known as Admin and in a heartbeat everything changed. Instant respect. The old SMods now bristled with self esteem and began to be heeded, even endeared and, as you can see, have gone on to become the proud men and women that you see before you today. True story.

fleet_admiral

A girl in work asked me have I seen the new season of some show. Its series not feckin season

PandaPoo

Tesco stands for something, T.E Stockwell and jack COhen afaik. So an S on the end doesn't really make sense.

Easons is the only one I put an S on the end of, sounds better I think.

cml387

Apparently we now have a thing called "Transport for Ireland".

Shamelessly copied from Transport For London, TFL is a government body that looks after the transport needs of London, managing buses, Underground and Overground.

TFI is a sticker on the side of a bus.

c_man

pablo128 wrote: »

What's the story with 'multiple' being used in posts? I have never heard an Irish person using this word in general conversation. Fcuking Americanisms!:mad:

Wtf, whatever about the rest of the annoyances listed I can't believe someone is taking umbrage at the proper, well established word.

"Americanisms" ain't what they used to be.

Kev W

fleet_admiral wrote: »

A girl in work asked me have I seen the new season of some show. Its series not feckin season

Ah now that one just makes sense. The whole thing from start to end being called a "series" and a year's worth being called a "season" is just much more sensible than using the same word for both.

Speaking of annoying... I'd love to invent a device that glides over discussions in online fora and drops down to accurately place apostrophes in words, ensuring that a participant is unable to proceed in the discussion until she/he understands how to use those particular things.

rubadub

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Nope they definitely changed it:
Their website is
http://www.easons.com/books

But the logo now drops the "s" in Eason's I now am expecting free books (for life) for this free advertising!

Here is an advert from 1968. The website calls it easons but the advert does not have an s at the end, neither does the old sign in the photo which I think is still there

http://brandnewretro.ie/2013/05/10/advert-for-easons-newsagents-1968/

here is the clock with eason
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7111/7463032750_262a879328_b.jpg

Can you find a picture of this alleged logo you are claiming had the extra s in it?

NachoBusiness

Here's another old pic of Eason & Sons (Middle Abbey St, pre Luas).

selous

Saint Stephensssss day, for St Stephens day,
just to add to the Eason thing, they always advertised themselves as Eason yet the website is Easons.com not Eason, hmmm,

Billy86

selous wrote: »

Saint Stephensssss day, for St Stephens day,
just to add to the Eason thing, they always advertised themselves as Eason yet the website is Easons.com not Eason, hmmm,

I just checked out 'Eason.com' and to be fair, it kind of belongs to the European Space Agency (operating on a 2015 budget of €4.4 billion). I don't think a bookstore in Ireland would be buying them out of that '.com' registration! :pac:

rubadub

selous wrote: »

Saint Stephensssss day, for St Stephens day,
just to add to the Eason thing, they always advertised themselves as Eason yet the website is Easons.com not Eason, hmmm,

This could be either since they know its commonly called easons, which nobody is disputing. Or it could be that the website was snapped up, www.eason.com is another companies site. Even many big companies have weird URLs which I presume is since the orginal was snapped up and used or was cybersquatted on.

Eason have a schoolbook site, with no extra s, though it would look odd if it did
http://www.easonschoolbooks.com/


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eason_%26_Son

Eason & Son (or Eason's as it is more commonly known)

OldMrBrennan83

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cml387

Patww79 wrote: »

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Well we do that to ourselves, there's no "implanting" going on.

We demand access to British television stations (remember the deflector candidate who was elected to that bastion of republicanism, Donegal) , we pay a fortune to Sky (British) to watch the English premier league, we buy in thousand of copies The Sun.

OldMrBrennan83

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selous

How about the word "amn't" which is used in Ireland, and scorned upon, but yet "aint" isn't, amn't IS short for am not, but what is aint short for??