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Ireland ranked #86 in the world alphabetically. What can be done to improve this?

  • 23-05-2018 1:17pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭


    I was quite shocked when I realised we were so far down the list.

    Shouldn't we be contacting our politicians and making our voices heard in this regard? I don't feel comfortable that our European neighbours such as Austria, France and Germany are so much higher than us.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,121 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Correct the spelling to Eireland.

    I blame the Normans.


  • #3
    Rory28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Rory28


    Spell like the Dubs pronounce it. Arrland.


  • #4
    Billy86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,495 ✭✭✭✭Billy86


    1reland


  • #5
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Ahbegrandreland


  • #6
    Jim Bob Scratcher
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,231 ✭✭✭Jim Bob Scratcher




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  • #7
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    We're worth the effort of scrolling down a list.


  • #8
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Your Face wrote: »
    We're worth the effort of scrolling down a list.

    You're lucky I scrolled this far.


  • #9
    super_furry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Aaarrrrland?


  • #10
    wexie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,480 ✭✭✭wexie


    just nuke or take over some of the smaller countries above us. Start with Barbados, Bermuda, Bahamas


  • #11
    Ronaldinho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭Ronaldinho


    Annex Albania and treat it as an open prison to which we could send all the feral children etc.


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  • #12
    jiltloop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭jiltloop


    At least we're now listed as Ireland and not the Republic of Ireland. Those were dark days indeed.....


  • #13
    Working class heroes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    All Ireland.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



  • #14
    kingofclay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭kingofclay


    Rory28 wrote: »
    Spell like the Dubs pronounce it. Arrland.

    I went to school in Ringsend, all the lads pronounce it IRE-LAND. South Dublin middle class kids seem to pronounce it like arrrland and very posh pronounce is like Awhrlund.


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    The way language is degenerating currently it'll probably sort itself out in a few years..


  • #16
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,098 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    @Ireland


  • #17
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    jiltloop wrote: »
    At least we're now listed as Ireland and not the Republic of Ireland. Those were dark days indeed.....


    http://www.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/index.html


  • #18
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Would calling it #Ireland put us at the start or the end of the alphabet?


  • #19
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    Rory28 wrote: »
    Spell like the Dubs pronounce it. Arrland.

    No, that's how pirates pronounce it.


  • #20
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,236 ✭✭✭Dr. Kenneth Noisewater


    Just put it into your phone as AAAIreland, like you did with your girlfriend when you were 16 AAAxXBaBeSXx


  • #21
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Grayson wrote: »
    You're lucky I scrolled this far.


    Im not


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  • #22
    Duckworth_Luas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    The ambassador to the UN would support this initiative seeing as he's stuck between Iran and Israel.


  • #23
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Changing the official English language name to Eire would push Ireland up the list quite a bit.


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