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Scrabble to ban the word "culchie" in America.

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    #32
    gourcuff
    Registered Users Posts: 295 ✭✭gourcuff


    if they ban that, then they have to ban 'howiya' for dubs, equally as classist as culchie... scrabble have stirred up a hornets nest here...


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    #33
    [Deleted User]
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    MOH wrote: »
    A lot of the reporting on this has been a bit crap, like most reporting these days.

    Most of the words in question were removed from the official Scrabble dictionary almost 30 years ago

    There was an argument at the time that playing a word in a Scrabble game is divorced from it's meaning, and censoring legitimate words shouldn't be the job of the Scrabble community.

    So as a compromise the "offending" words were removed from the official Scrabble dictionary but listed in an addendum still allowed in tournament play. That's the bit that's changing now - they'll no longer be allowed in tournaments.

    Theres scrabble tournaments??


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    #34
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    endacl wrote: »
    Is ‘woolyback’ still ok?

    Yeah she's grand, she didn't fall far enough to break her neck. I guess old nick doesn't want to hear her moaning and nagging. Oh sorry I though your were asking after the ex-wife my apologises


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    #35
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,185 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    MOH wrote: »
    A lot of the reporting on this has been a bit crap, like most reporting these days.

    So as a compromise the "offending" words were removed from the official Scrabble dictionary but listed in an addendum still allowed in tournament play. That's the bit that's changing now - they'll no longer be allowed in tournaments.

    Amounts to the same thing, really

    Also, seen down the bottom of the list what I presume is 'pissant', I thought this was a valid term for a species of ant?


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    #36
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    Was shocked to see 'gullible' was on the list too.


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    #37
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    "I would rather be a culchie than a Dub.."


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    #38
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,443 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It’s like how the people of Cork seem to think the place is called the Rebel county because they stood up to the British during the war of independence. It isn’t.

    It’s for their support of the House of York during the English civil war.

    Never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.


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    #39
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    siltirocker wrote: »
    If you're playing devil's advocate you could point out that one is true, the other isn't.

    The etymology of a culchie is of people who live in the forest. 'Culchies' have never lived in trees. It's a slight implying they are uncultured or neatherthal. That's the origin.

    'Jackeens' are Irish people, in the Dublin region, loyal to the crown. 'Little Jacks'. This term came from the fact that up until 100 years ago, the majority, the vast majority even, of the region was loyal to the crown.

    It is not true that people from rural Ireland lived in the trees. It is true that people from the Dublin area were loyal to the crown.

    EDIT: Before people crucify me, it's not a partisan view. Born in the Rotunda, typing this in Drumcondra.


    Drumcondra? That's da bleedin' country ya fcukin' culchie.


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    #40
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It’s like how the people of Cork seem to think the place is called the Rebel county because they stood up to the British during the war of independence. It isn’t.

    It’s for their support of the House of York during the English civil war.


    Is that a fact?


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    #41
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    partyguinness wrote: »
    "I would rather be a culchie than a Dub.."

    So your a culchie, but I can't understand why you didn't say I'm proud to be a culchie. You didn't need to put the dub bit in. Its sounds that you're inferior to the dubs with that statement. I'm a true blue because I was born between the canals and I'm proud of it. And I didn't have to mention anything about culchie. Stand up and be proud to be were you're from.


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    #42
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    partyguinness wrote: »
    "I would rather be a culchie than a Dub.."

    What part of the countryside do you hail from?


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    #43
    sligojoek
    Registered Users Posts: 25,420 ✭✭✭✭sligojoek


    A teacher in school years ago told us that "Culchie" came from the word agricultural.


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    #44
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    I'm Triggered.


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    #45
    Ultima Thule
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Ultima Thule


    Dont trigger the leprechauns


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    #46
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I'm a culchie and it doesn't bother me, I'm just glad I'm not a bogger.

    Whats the difference?


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    #47
    Deadmou5e
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 111 ✭✭Deadmou5e


    Kylta wrote: »
    Whats the difference?

    One foots their own turf, the other buys in it.


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    #48
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,386 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Deadmou5e wrote: »
    One foots their own turf, the other buys in it.

    Or another way to put it is that a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin, while a bogger lives in a rural one. Bonus bogger points if you're farming stock.

    It's not really a serious thing though.
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    #49
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    I prefer Mullah/Mullagh myself


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    #50
    Deadmou5e
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 111 ✭✭Deadmou5e


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Or another way to put it is that a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin, while a bogger lives in a rural one. Bonus bogger points if you're farming stock.

    It's not really a serious thing though.

    I was only joking btw! I’m from North Kerry so I’ve been called both most my whole life :D


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    #51
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Or another way to put it is that a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin, while a bogger lives in a rural one. Bonus bogger points if you're farming stock.

    It's not really a serious thing though.

    So what your saying is you lot discriminate against each other. What's worse than a bogger?


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    #52
    Deadmou5e
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 111 ✭✭Deadmou5e


    andekwarhola wrote: »
    I prefer Mullah/Mullagh myself

    Mullah is definitely a Dublin thing, I never here anyone outside the pale say that


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    #53
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,386 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Deadmou5e wrote: »
    I was only joking btw! I’m from North Kerry so I’ve been called both most my whole life :D

    I'm only joking too! :pac:
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    #54
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Deadmou5e wrote: »
    Mullah is definitely a Dublin thing, I never here anyone outside the pale say that

    Seeing as it's a phrase used by Dublin people about people outside Dublin, you can kind of see how that might be the case alright.


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    #55
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    Deadmou5e wrote: »
    Mullah is definitely a Dublin thing, I never here anyone outside the pale say that

    We use that against each other a lot growing up in dublin. I haven't heard it said in donkeys years. I love to know what the origins of the word is?


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    #56
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    I see "mick" is banned too.

    We'll have Christy Moore censored soon. (If "Christy" isn't abusive of course). "To where you're a Paddy, you're a Biddy, you're a M***"

    This could get very confusing tbh.

    I don't play scrabble, so I'll boycott it


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    #57
    Deadmou5e
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 111 ✭✭Deadmou5e


    Kylta wrote: »
    We use that against each other a lot growing up in dublin. I haven't heard it said in donkeys years. I love to know what the origins of the word is?

    Open to correction but I think it was originally to do with ‘moolah’ as in money, describing big farmers with big houses and big land. Remember reading about it once but was a long time ago.


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    #58
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Kylta wrote: »
    We use that against each other a lot growing up in dublin. I haven't heard it said in donkeys years. I love to know what the origins of the word is?

    Only ever heard it used in Dublin to describe country people.


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    #59
    Metric Tensor
    Registered Users Posts: 3,724 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin

    We'd have called that a townie in our youth! The irony of a mile difference being completely lost on us of course!


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    #60
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    That list is gas craic.

    I'm going through it just trying to work out dirty anagrams. It's like the best dictionary ever.

    Other words banned - ****, cumming, cums, (but not "cum"), baldie, fatso, pissant, cocksucker, bat****. Knacker is still ok though.


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    #61
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,185 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Knacker also has a non-offensive meaning, I suppose cum has one too, in Latin at least


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