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It's Hallowe'en, not Hollowe'en

  • 27-10-2012 05:35PM
    #1
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Pet peeve.It's Hallow as in "All Hallows" not feckin' "Hollow"e'en."


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  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    yes


  • #3
    Silverfish
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Silverfish


    And while we're at it, it's marshmallow, not marshmellow.


  • #4
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    I've never heard one person call it Hollowe'en, ever.


  • #5
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Silverfish wrote: »
    And while we're at it, it's marshmallow, not marshmellow.
    That depends if you're smoking or not though doesn't it.

    Who's this Ian ****?


  • #6
    King Of Wishful Thinking
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 179 ✭✭King Of Wishful Thinking


    OP, wake up - you've fallen asleep and started a thread on After Hours, thinking you're in a primary school teaching.

    Damn mid-term break withdrawals.


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  • #7
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    King Of Wishful Thinking wrote: »
    OP, wake up - you've fallen asleep and started a thread on After Hours, thinking you're in a primary school teaching.

    Damn mid-term break withdrawals.
    I think you're going to be a great boardsie :)

    Are you new in here?


  • #8
    Tope
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭Tope


    krudler wrote: »
    I've never heard one person call it Hollowe'en, ever.
    I'm surprised; every second person I hear says Holloween, have to stop myself correcting them all the time! Same with the "marshmellows" thing. I think people actually think "Sure there's no such word as Hallow (or mallow), it must be hollow (or mellow), that's a word I know!".

    And while we're at it, (and I think this just a Dublin thing)- it's not bloody St Stephen's's day! What's with the extra 's? I reckon this has something to do with Stephen's Green being such a familiar place that Dubliners tend to think of 'Stephen's' as a name in itself and have to add an 's to it to make it sound right.

    I have little to be worrying about, I know.


  • #9
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    it's pronounced nucular....


  • #10
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I think you're going to be a great boardsie :)

    Are you new in here?

    I think not ;)


  • #11
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    it's pronounced nucular....


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_neVUmhJ_yo


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  • #12
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,623 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Feck that shite.. it's Oíche Shamhna round these parts!


  • #13
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    krudler wrote: »
    I've never heard one person call it Hollowe'en, ever.
    Marty Whelan on the Tesco ad,for starters.


  • #14
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Helloween


  • #15
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    krudler wrote: »
    I've never heard one person call it Hollowe'en, ever.

    Sounds like something that one of those posh dublin people would say.


  • #16
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Helloween

    Keeper of the Seven Keys.


  • #17
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Pfft, name wrong??? They've even got the date wrong. It's Guy Fawkes, as all right thinking people well know.


  • #18
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Pottler wrote: »
    Pfft, name wrong??? They've even got the date wrong. It's Guy Fawkes, as all right thinking people well know.

    2 different things dear Pottler :p

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night


  • #19
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Chucken wrote: »
    2 different things dear Pottler :p

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
    I'm changing me name and burrowing under the Dail with a handfull of black cats - from thence forth, November the 2nd will be known as "Adam Chagleys night". It will simplify things greatly.


  • #20
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Pottler wrote: »
    I'm changing me name and burrowing under the Dail with a handfull of black cats - from thence forth, November the 2nd will be known as "Adam Chagleys night". It will simplify things greatly.

    No burrowing needed. Just walk in while they're on their mid-term break :D


  • #21
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Chucken wrote: »
    No burrowing needed. Just walk in while they're on their mid-term break :D
    Shyte. This plan might need a little more work.:D


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  • #22
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    ...and Monday is a bank holiday :pac:....bank holiday! Ya have to laugh!!!!!!


  • #23
    flutterflye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,538 ✭✭✭flutterflye


    I don't give a shyte about that.
    But when people say ice cream putting the emphasis on cream instead of ice, my eye starts twitching and I imagine torturing them in all sorts of ways.


  • #24
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Tullamore not Tellamore


  • #25
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056791898
    See?SEE????


  • #26
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056791898
    See?SEE????

    I think its writing with your accent.

    Like calling Gordon D'Arcy Gordon Dorcy!


  • #27
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Pet peeve.It's Hallow as in "All Hallows" not feckin' "Hollow"e'en."


    It's fecking, not feckin'.


  • #28
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056791898
    See?SEE????


    You should have given that poster lines :D



    (Do teachers still give lines...of writing)


  • #29
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    its a load of bollix is what it is


  • #30
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,560 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    Chucken wrote: »
    I think its writing with your accent.

    Like calling Gordon D'Arcy Gordon Dorcy!
    Not in a Cork accent it's not!!Feckin' comes from too much time here in the sunny south east!


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  • #31
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    byhookorbycrook wrote: »
    Not in a Cork accent it's not!!Feckin' comes from too much time here in the sunny south east!

    I should have said "ones" accent ;) as in, the posters accent. Not yours.


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