Pet Hates - Irishisms

DenMan · 02-03-2012 04:15PM

I can't stand it when someone says "well" when saying hello. It sounds like they are responding to something else said to them. It doesn't make any sense.

The King of Moo · 02-03-2012 04:15PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Amn't, Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And the sharp intake of breath some people do when they're listening to you. It sounds like they've been punched in the stomach, or are having a very small orgasm. Most don't even notice they are doing it.

"Am not." I know it can sound funny, but it's pretty clear what it means, and though it's not strictly correct, there is a certain logic behind it.

You are not = You aren't
He is not = He isn't
I am not = I amn't

MrStuffins · 02-03-2012 04:16PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Amn't, Wtf is that supposed to mean?

And the sharp intake of breath some people do when they're listening to you. It sounds like they've been punched in the stomach, or are having a very small orgasm. Most don't even notice they are doing it.

Not as bad as people saying "atter" (or sometimes "after")

"I'm atter droppin' me toast"

No, you dropped your toast!

Fratton Fred · 02-03-2012 04:21PM

The Irishism I find amusing is the use of the word "So" instead of a full stop.

westendgirlie · 02-03-2012 04:22PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

"Am not." I know it can sound funny, but it's pretty clear what it means, and though it's not strictly correct, there is a certain logic behind it.

You are not = You aren't
He is not = He isn't
I am not = I amn't

I am not = I'm not

Paparazzo · 02-03-2012 04:22PM

People in the west doing their bad sean connery impressions.

GAAman · 02-03-2012 04:22PM

DenMan wrote: »

I can't stand it when someone says "well" when saying hello. It sounds like they are responding to something else said to them. It doesn't make any sense.

Right there with you on that one, seems to be people from tyrone who are the biggest culprits for it.

My own one is people from derry say "Yes" as a greeting/saying hello. I didn't ask you a feckin question!!!

Fratton Fred · 02-03-2012 04:27PM

I remember when Vodafone bought Eircell and eyebrows were raised about the high revenue a relatively small network generated.

But it became obvious when I started hearin a typical Irish phone call.

In London a typical call would finish off like this "OK mate, that's great, I,ll see you later then, bye".

In Dublin it would finish " aah reet then bud, that's grand so, I'll see yous later then, bye bye, bye, bye bye, bye".

The extra four or five "byes" must be worth a fortune to the networks.

Squall Leonhart · 02-03-2012 04:28PM

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

Raekwon · 02-03-2012 04:28PM

pmcmahon wrote: »

"yee"-its meant to be "yous or yiz" tut

Ah YOU beat me too it. Everybody from outside the Pale seems to say "Yee" instead of "You", it's like a muck savage impediment or something.

Fratton Fred · 02-03-2012 04:34PM

Raekwon wrote: »

Ah YOU beat me too it. Everybody from outside the Pale seems to say "Yee" instead of "You", it's like a muck savage impediment or something.

Verily square, ye should not mock. They merely rehearse for a performance of Romeo and Juliet

pragmatic1 · 02-03-2012 04:37PM

John Doe1 wrote: »

Donegal dictionary:

A..........I
Aul....... Old
Aul Boy....Father
Aul Doll...Mother
Aye........Yes
Bother.....Hassle
Canny......Cannot
Class.... .Good/Great
Dinny......Don’t
Doll......Girl or woman
Foundered .Extremely cold
Fray......From
Gan.......Going
Gaff......House/flat
Geesa.....Give me a
Gissa.....Girl
Glack........Good luck...........Good bye
Gon.......Please
Hanlin....Trouble or Fight or Argument
Hi........Used at the start and end of every sentence
Hay.......Have
Hey?......Phrased as a question meaning what
Juck......Boy or Man
Ker............ Car
Lock......Small amount of something
Mind......To remember
Mon.......Come on
Naw.......No
Nuance....Unusual
Pure......very
Purdies...Potatoes
Rare......strange or unusual
Staish....Oh wow or Look
Thon......That
Tight.....Cruel
Wan.......One or 1
Wan.......Refering to a person. E.g. "Look at that wan there"
Wee.......Small
Weins.....Babies or children
Well......Hello
Wile......Very or Terrible
Yes.......Hello
Yis Sir...Slang, Hello
Yes Horse........Hello to someone u like
Yock......... different types of ladies

'

Most of that is Ulster Scots.

Raekwon · 02-03-2012 04:38PM

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Verily square, ye should not mock. They merely rehearse for a performance of Romeo and Juliet

Well if Romeo and Juliet was performed in GAA jerseys then I would well believe you

deise go deo · 02-03-2012 04:41PM

cocokay wrote: »

"i do be" instead of i am

They don't mean the same thing. 'I do/does be' is the habitual tense, something that standard English lacks.

lucylu · 02-03-2012 04:45PM

Paul Cosgrave wrote: »

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

blame the Modh coinniollach and the direct translation from Irish for that one

lucylu · 02-03-2012 04:47PM

a few scoops ... in referring to going for a few drinks wrecks my head.

cocokay · 02-03-2012 04:52PM

oh yeah forgot the "i'm after"s - "im after forgettin me phone" - dingbat.
or "d'yeh know that kinda way" - eh no wtf are you on about.
and also "n anyways" on the end of every sentence or yizzer "how much are yizzer cans o dutch gold n all n anyways" arrrrgh drives me insane

luckyfrank · 02-03-2012 04:54PM

She had a fanny on her like a badly packed kebab

or

Ahh Bee Jaysus

Krusader · 02-03-2012 04:59PM

Paul Cosgrave wrote: »

Personal peeve of mine is when people want to say something like

I would have gone
I could have gone
I should have gone

But instead say it this way;

I would of gone
I could of gone
I should of gone

...text messages are the best way to catch out these culprits!

Maybe they are pronouncing it like this

I would've gone
I could've gone
I should've gone

Nothingbetter2d · 02-03-2012 04:59PM

maximoose wrote: »

Culchies pronouncing his like "He's"

Dubs adding O to the end of male names.

DaveO, JackO, DanO,

Dubs adding bleedin before words and inferring danger just to exagerate something.

instead of "it was good" it is "bleedin deadly"

MrStuffins · 02-03-2012 05:01PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

Maybe they are pronouncing it like this

I would've gone
I could've gone
I should've gone

there are definitely people out there who think it's "would OF". I've even heard them say it when breaking down their sentence.

"I............ WOULD............ OF............"

It really makes me cringe!

Fratton Fred · 02-03-2012 05:01PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

Dubs adding O to the end of male names.

DaveO, JackO, DanO,

Dubs adding bleedin before words and inferring danger just to exagerate something.

instead of "it was good" it is "bleedin deadly"

Or "Brutal"

And size "it was bleedin massive"

luckyfrank · 02-03-2012 05:02PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

Dubs adding O to the end of male names.

DaveO, JackO, DanO,

Dubs adding bleedin before words and inferring danger just to exagerate something.

instead of "it was good" it is "bleedin deadly"

no it was f/ucking savage

The King of Moo · 02-03-2012 05:04PM

westendgirlie wrote: »

I am not = I'm not

Obviously.
As I said in my previous post, "I amn't" isn't considered to be strictly correct.

I was pointing out that it's understandable that some people say it as there's a certain logic to it.
If "You are not" becomes either "You aren't" or "You're not" and "He is not" becomes "He isn't" or "He's not," then it's not such a leap for someone to think "I am not" might become "I amn't" or "I'm not."

I never understand when people don't seem to get where it comes from, regardless of whether they find it annoying or not.

MrStuffins · 02-03-2012 05:06PM

Nothingbetter2d wrote: »

Dubs adding O to the end of male names.

DaveO, JackO, DanO,

This one is bad too, but I have to say I prefer it to the British way of putting "Y" at the end of EVERYTHING! Even when it sounds horrible!

"Yeah, me and Wayney were out............."

Krusader · 02-03-2012 05:10PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

there are definitely people out there who think it's "would OF". I've even heard them say it when breaking down their sentence.

"I............ WOULD............ OF............"

It really makes me cringe!

threads hating on "Irishisms" make me cringe, I'm glad we have our own sayings/mannerisms, it adds to the flavour of being Irish

westendgirlie · 02-03-2012 05:13PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Obviously.
As I said in my previous post, "I amn't" isn't considered to be strictly correct.

I was pointing out that it's understandable that some people say it as there's a certain logic to it.
If "You are not" becomes either "You aren't" or "You're not" and "He is not" becomes "He isn't" or "He's not," then it's not such a leap for someone to think "I am not" might become "I amn't" or "I'm not."

I never understand when people don't seem to get where it comes from, regardless of whether they find it annoying or not.

I get the logic of it. It probably sounds weird as it isn't said by a wider population.

I am pie · 02-03-2012 05:17PM

Thailand is not Thighland. The surname Thompson is pronounced with a silent H...etc etc.

MrStuffins · 02-03-2012 05:18PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

threads hating on "Irishisms" make me cringe, I'm glad we have our own sayings/mannerisms, it adds to the flavour of being Irish

I'm glad you celebrate, in a lot of these cases, pig-ignorance!

The King of Moo · 02-03-2012 05:19PM

westendgirlie wrote: »

I get the logic of it. It probably sounds weird as it isn't said by a wider population.

I guess I'm just old enough to remember it being very common then, when I was young.

I actually remember seeing a teacher in a language school teaching "I amn't" to a low-level class learning English as though it were the standard, and that was only a few years ago! :eek:
That took me by surprise. It's one thing to use it informally; another to teach it, and not "I'm not" to foreign students who probably wouldn't be living in Ireland.

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