"Up" to Dublin, but "down" to Cork, "Over" to England etc.

You are always in a helicopter.
Yet sometimes people are in a plane. But more often they are on a plane.
'i saw that movie on the plane last year'

pj9999 wrote: »

What other words do yalls use to supplement 'Go' when travelling somewhere?

Down; to go there.
Up; to come back from there.

splinter65 wrote: »

If you live in North Tipp then you would go to visit someone in hospital “below in Clonmel”.
When the psychiatric hospital was there you would regularly hear a harassed mother admonishing a bold child with the barb “ will you stop for Gods sake you’ll have me below in Clonmel !”.

In Nenagh we used to say "Down South"

Where's John these days?

I heard he's gone "down south" again.

It's based on your frame of reference in the 3 dimensional space per the spherical co-ordinate system.

If I'm in Dublin then that is my 'original' point reference O in 3 dimensional space below.



So from my reference frame, I don't give you vector co-ordinates because that would be confusing and weird. So instead I generalise and say I am going DOWN to Cork or UP to Belfast or OVER to London.

Each city, from point O, would get their own spherical co-ordinates i.e the radial distance between Cork and Dublin (O to P) , the polar angle between both on the earth and the azimuthal angle between the two and that would let you know what to say. And given that while the earth rotates at a constant velocity (i.e. it doesn't acclerate) and we know Cork and Dublin don't themselves move and this reference frame is thus inertial.

Are Am Eye wrote: »

So what you're saying is that you are north riding.
And sometimes you would go south riding.

Below in Clonmel south riding to be exact.