Eejit or Eegit

budgemook · 30-07-2009 01:22PM #1

I don't really know where to put this so I decided on here. Which word do you use? Eejit or Eegit. I know the papers always say eejit, in fact i don't think i've ever seen eegit in print but I always say eegit. In fact I think eejit sounds stupid. Is this a regional thing?

Tubberadora · 30-07-2009 01:24PM

I am reading them both the same anyway. Eejit is the prononciation anyway.

Biggins · 30-07-2009 01:25PM

I just use the long version of spelling it - see below!

Fianna Fail TD.

AnonoBoy · 30-07-2009 01:28PM

Eejit.

It's a great insult to teach to foreigners too. A norwegian accent calling you an eejit is hilarious!

mink_man · 30-07-2009 01:29PM

^^^^^
fail

how do u pronounce eegit?

[EDIT] it's biggins so it can't be a fail.

BaZmO* · 30-07-2009 01:29PM

It's Idiot ya Dope!

donmeister · 30-07-2009 01:30PM

wudhqwohofqefds

brummytom · 30-07-2009 01:31PM

Aren't they both pronounced the same?

30-07-2009 01:32PM

Neither.

I prefer wánker

Pop's Diner · 30-07-2009 01:38PM

Gobshíte.

budgemook · 30-07-2009 01:38PM

no no no. Eegit is pronounced Ee Git. That's always how i've said it anyways. Eejit (pronounced Ee Jit) is stupid.

rubadub · 30-07-2009 01:42PM

budgemook wrote: »

I always say eegit. In fact I think eejit sounds stupid. Is this a regional thing?

So you pronounce it E-git as in "jammy git"? if you do you're an eejit.

wudangclan · 30-07-2009 01:43PM

it's 'eedgit' surely?

AnonoBoy · 30-07-2009 01:43PM

budgemook wrote: »

no no no. Eegit is pronounced Ee Git. That's always how i've said it anyways. Eejit (pronounced Ee Jit) is stupid.

Eegit is more a country way of saying it, no?

Eejit would be a Dublin pronounciation.

kelle · 30-07-2009 01:45PM

Amadán

Porkpie · 30-07-2009 01:47PM

Egypt

Omnomnom · 30-07-2009 01:48PM

Eejit..perhaps eedgit bit not eegit!!

granturismo · 30-07-2009 01:52PM

budgemook wrote: »

Is this a regional thing?

The only people I know who pronounce it ee-git are from Meath or living close to Meath.

ee-jit is used by the rest the country incl Dubs. Not sure about Ulster.

yerayeah · 30-07-2009 01:54PM

Never heard someone say eegit, sounds funny tbh:p

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 30-07-2009 02:41PM

Eejit FTW... it just sounds more Irish!

budgemook · 30-07-2009 02:42PM

I think Eegit sounds more Irish. I am actually from near Meath (spit), From Westmeath. All ye eejit sayers are eegits.

Deedsie · 30-07-2009 02:48PM

Óinseach or Amadán are better terms Female and male versions of the word.

JerryHandbag · 30-07-2009 06:19PM

rarnes1 wrote: »

wánker

Ah so thats how you spell that word in Irish....sine fada over the letter a
Got ya

Tar.Aldarion · 30-07-2009 06:23PM

e-git just sounds like most people on here :pac:

I would spell it eejit.

ottostreet · 30-07-2009 06:45PM

+1 on the teaching foreigners how to say 'fecking eejit'

the accents always make it funnier!

Keogg · 30-07-2009 06:50PM

its definitely eejit.

Why would it be a G? eegit looks weird when it written, and then it would be pronounced differently

InkSlinger67 · 30-07-2009 06:55PM

Resident of Ballymore-Useless (play on Ballymore Eustace, Co. Kildare)

I picked that up from my 3rd Year teacher in school and used it ever since, never learned anything else from him though! Funny guy!

SV · 30-07-2009 06:58PM

mink_man wrote: »

^^^^^
fail

how do u pronounce eegit?

[EDIT] it's biggins so it can't be a fail.

You're a crap troll.

Sofaspud · 30-07-2009 06:58PM

I was talking to someone in a pub last monday and he said "eegit", I actually stopped the conversation to discuss that word.

Before then I never knew anybody actually pronounced it that way, I thought that any time anyone said eegit, they were saying it in a take-the-piss way.

I think the guy was offalyish

WeeBushy · 30-07-2009 07:00PM

I think eegit sounds like a type of bird...

Jako8 · 30-07-2009 07:05PM

I say eejit.

I wonder where that word comes from.

Eejit or Eegit

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