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Connacht or Connaught?

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  • #32
    mudokon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭mudokon


    Bonito wrote: »
    23 posts in and we have the 1st sly dig.

    The first post had a sly dig too, comparing British people with under educated Irish people.


  • #33
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    West Connaughtshire.


  • #34
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    pithater1 wrote: »
    Connacht is an Irish province containing Counties Galway, Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon and Leitrim.

    Connaught is a hotel in London.

    Now you're talking! (or "your talking!" as the 'Connaught' brigade would say. hehe)


  • #35
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    The first sly dig was actually in the first post.
    Ah yeah but that was a universal dig. His second one was personal, dirty, cheap, unprovoked and underhanded.


  • #36
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Sometimes I pronounce it as Connacht, sometimes as Connaught, depending on whether I'm speaking to an Irish person or an English person.

    I'd hate to confuse anyone.


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  • #37
    epgc3fyqirnbsx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I've always spelt it Connaught, never really thought about it and always assumed 'connacht' was the incorrect spelling for some reason
    Being from connaught I can tell you that it's usually spelled connaught


  • #38
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    Sometimes I pronounce it as Connacht, sometimes as Connaught, depending on whether I'm speaking to an Irish person or an English person.

    I'd hate to confuse anyone.
    Remember to roll your "r".


  • #39
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Connaught
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Ah Dudess, me auld flower ... speaking of undereducated Irish people....
    Being in disagreement with you/not hating the English/enjoying a lot of British culture isn't the same as under-educated.


  • #40
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Ah Dudess, me auld flower ... speaking of undereducated Irish people....

    It's not often such small posts combine sexism, excruciating cod-colloquialism, cheap unwarranted digs and imbecility.

    Quite a feat.


  • #41
    Tom Slick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭Tom Slick


    Connaught
    Connaught sounds like something you'd name your British army regiment after.


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  • #42
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Connaught
    OisinT wrote: »
    I'd hardly call it sly :)
    Yup, it was more blatant than sly, which implies sneaky.


  • #43
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,816 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Connaught
    Never bothered me which way it's spelt.


  • #44
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Connaught
    galwayrush wrote: »
    Never bothered me which way it's spelt.
    Idiot ;)

    Obviously kidding btw. :D Don't want to get banned over nothing again!


  • #45
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Rebelheart infracted.

    Be civil or you'll be taking a break.


  • #46
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    Dudess wrote: »
    Being in disagreement with you/not hating the English/enjoying a lot of British culture isn't the same as under-educated.

    Right on, Dudess, right on. Bud, like. You know.


  • #47
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    stovelid wrote: »
    It's not often such small posts combine sexism, excruciating cod-colloquialism, cheap unwarranted digs and imbecility.

    I unequivocally accept your expertise on the subject, Stovelid.


  • #48
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Connaught
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    I unequivocally accept your expertise on the subject, Stovelid.
    Now THAT was a sly dig!


  • #49
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    OisinT wrote: »
    Now THAT was a sly dig!
    'Cause Stovelid is from England?


  • #50
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    I unequivocally accept your expertise on the subject, Stovelid.

    Your forked baroque words are like those of the oppressor, comrade.

    Have we a fifth-columnist in our midst?


  • #51
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Connaught
    Bonito wrote: »
    'Cause Stovelid is from England?
    I think the implication was that stovelid's posts combine sexism, excruciating cod-colloquialism, cheap unwarranted digs and imbecility.

    lol.. or maybe I'm reading too far into it?


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  • #52
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Connaught
    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Right on, Dudess, right on. Bud, like. You know.
    I'll get back to you in a while, just after I finish writing my letter of admiration to Reg Empey... Sorry, Sir Reg Empey.


  • #53
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    OisinT wrote: »
    I think the implication was that stovelid's posts combine sexism, excruciating cod-colloquialism, cheap unwarranted digs and imbecility.

    lol.. or maybe I'm reading too far into it?

    If you substitute awful puns for imbecility, it's pretty much on the money, one must admit.


  • #54
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    Bonito wrote: »
    'Cause Stovelid is from England?

    Please don't tell me that Stovelid is a Sasanach after all his comments about football being "bogball"? Jesus, this is way too much of a stereotype to be true.


  • #55
    FreudianSlippers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    Connaught
    stovelid wrote: »
    If you substitute awful puns for imbecility, it's pretty much on the money, one must admit.
    Literal lol


  • #56
    Superbus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Superbus


    Connaught
    Is it pronounced Conn-awt?

    No.

    Doesn't matter though. Certainly isn't a matter of intelligence or nationality.


  • #57
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Please don't tell me that Stovelid is a Sasanach after all his comments about football being "bogball"? Jesus, this is way too much of a stereotype to be true.
    I wont tell you, because I don't know. Hence why I used a question mark in my post. Maybe Oisin's theory was closer.


  • #58
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    Please don't tell me that Stovelid is a Sasanach after all his comments about football being "bogball"? Jesus, this is way too much of a stereotype to be true.

    Busted.

    I wanted to call it upstart-yeoman-ball but I feared my cover would be blown.


  • #59
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    Dudess wrote: »
    I'll get back to you in a while, just after I finish writing my letter of admiration to Reg Empey... Sorry, Sir Reg Empey.

    You write letters? Just how old are you?


  • #60
    Bonito
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,399 ✭✭✭Bonito


    Rebelheart wrote: »
    You write letters? Just how old are you?
    People who don't need spell check write letters.


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  • #61
    Rebelheart
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,077 ✭✭✭Rebelheart


    Connaught
    Bonito wrote: »
    People who don't need spell check write letters.

    Yes, and they're all over 90.


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