Words no longer used.....

Ish66

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

wooing as well

Doing a line

EmmetSpiceland

Do kids say “ekker” for homework these days.

Ash.J.Williams

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Rig out, as in an entire outfit.


I happy that one died, it always irritated me.

I use that regularly because it’s gone

Ash.J.Williams

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Do kids say “ekker” for homework these days.

No

Beasty

Wherefore (art thou) - barely heard since Frankie Howard's heyday

Ash.J.Williams

Ish66 wrote: »

Doing a line

That’s more of a chemical relationship nowadays

the purple tin

Ammint.

Westernyelp

Ish66 wrote:

Doing a line

Doing a strong line even.

Badly Drunk Boy

the purple tin wrote: »

Ammint.

I amn't a fan of the 'correct' standard version of this. I think "amn't" is another of those words that we clung on to in Ireland from that earlier version of English.

silverharp

perished with the cold

dxhound2005

One which might surprise those not familiar with Ulster idioms, is starved/starving with the cold.

https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/starved-with-the-cold

Marhay70

Bobblehats wrote: »

Huckster is somebody who pushes their wares
Foldoddle is a thingamejig.?
Kipeen is a small stick; although being phased out by bigger sticks nowadays

I would always call a junk shop or a shop that sold bric a brac, a huckster shop and my late father in law always referred to matches as cipeens. It's an Irish word.

odyssey06

Ger Canning commentating on the soccerball described Hungary as 'doughty' opponents...
I think Ger is about the only person still using that word.

Marhay70

Marhay70 wrote: »

I would always call a junk shop or a shop that sold bric a brac, a huckster shop and my late father in law always referred to matches as cipeens. It's an Irish word.

I used to be sent out to get cippeens (small sticks) to light the fire. I always thought it was a word my mother made up.
Along with "bostook"

Potential-Monke

Ye. An amazing word that has no other, but is no longer used and "you" is used instead, but that makes no sense because you is singular but it can also be used to refer to 2 or more people as a group. Whereas ye is just perfect for it.

I had a fight with a team leader in a previous job of using ye instead of you. Because mainly they were a 'Merican company the yanks had mentioned it apparantly, as they don't think it's proper English. I refused to stop using it. There is no alternative to ye that's just as short and precise!

odyssey06

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Ye. An amazing word that has no other, but is no longer used and "you" is used instead, but that makes no sense because you is singular but it can also be used to refer to 2 or more people as a group. Whereas ye is just perfect for it.
I had a fight with a team leader in a previous job of using ye instead of you. Because mainly they were a 'Merican company the yanks had mentioned it apparantly, as they don't think it's proper English. I refused to stop using it. There is no alternative to ye that's just as short and precise!

I use ye also, it is a gap in the language.
'You all' perhaps?

Youse

whisky_galore

Company keeping.

Potential-Monke

odyssey06 wrote: »

I use ye also, it is a gap in the language.
'You all' perhaps?

Oh the yanks love that, ya'll. I refuse to use it when ye is there. Ya'll just sounds so... trailer trash?

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

Youse

And no. Never. Rape of the english language there!

odyssey06

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Oh the yanks love that, ya'll. I refuse to use it when ye is there. Ya'll just sounds so... trailer trash?

No I think it's a general southern thing, not necessarily trailer trash... think I remember hearing it a lot in Friday Night Lights & Nashville from Connie Britton's characters.
Probably you have to have the accent...

Leg End Reject

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

Youse

Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.

branie2

Langer

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.

yis

Leg End Reject

MeepMeep2021 wrote: »

yis

"What are yis/youse doing?"

"Get yizzers coats, yis have pulled."

So many variations, so many examples of poor English skills ...

riclad

Joe cuddy is the name of a singer, I think theres plenty of older people who still use word frock. Zine
Old word for amateur magazines printed use photocopiers
made before the web existed usually black and white
Wireless old word for radio
Cordless phones used before mobile phones existed
Standard home phones with no cable
Webring collections of blogs about a topic
Eg star trek webring

Badly Drunk Boy

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.

I particularly hate 'yizzer' (the word).

riclad wrote: »

Zine
Old word for amateur magazines printed use photocopiers
made before the web existed usually black and white

In my experience, that was more usually called a fanzine (fan magazine) but sometimes shortened to 'zine'.

Hamsterchops

Bamboozled (confused by).

dxhound2005

riclad wrote: »

Wireless old word for radio

Both words came into the language in conjunction. To describe transmission and reception using radio waves, and without the wired connection used by telegraphy. The noun wireless was a contraction of wireless set. Some people may remember the term television set as well.

El_Duderino 09

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Yizzers and yousers (which are abominations) if you're a northsider.

I love those little regional variations in expression. I'm not from Dublin but the lads who I've heard use it tend to use it partially tongue in cheek and ham the North side accent up a bit when they use it. I recognise I do the same with some old culchie expressions too.

It's pretty important to know what's correct and what's performative.

If ye think youse/yis/yisser/yizzer are problematic, just be glad we exported one our worst/most unusual you-plurals to the US a long time ago, where it lives on in the Appalachians. Yinz:

Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or "yous ones", a form of the second person plural commonly heard in parts of Ulster. When standard-English speakers talk in the first person or third person, they use different pronouns to distinguish between singular and plural. In the first person, for example, speakers use the singular I and the plural we. But when speaking in the second person, you performs double duty as both the singular form and the plural form. Crozier (1984) suggests that during the 19th century, when many Irish speakers switched to speaking English, they filled this gap with you ones, primarily because Irish has a singular second-person pronoun, tú, as well as a plural form, sibh. The following, therefore, is the most likely path from you ones to yinz: you ones [juː wʌnz] > you'uns [juːʌnz] > youns [juːnz] > yunz [jʌnz] > yinz [jɪ̈nz]. Because there are still speakers who use each form,[2] there is no stable second-person plural pronoun form in southwest or central Pennsylvania, which is why the pronoun is variably referred to or spelled as you'uns, y'ins, y'uns, yunz, yuns, yinz, yenz, yins or ynz.

In other parts of the U.S., Irish or Scots-Irish speakers encountered the same gap in the second-person plural. For this reason, these speakers are also responsible for coining the yunz used in and around Middletown, Pennsylvania, as well as the youse found mainly in New York City, the Philadelphia dialect and New Jersey, and the ubiquitous y'all of the South