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Words Irish people don't use. (Not slang)

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  • #62
    The Backwards Man
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    tim3000 wrote: »
    "Wee" as in small

    Aye for yes
    You've never been to Donegal have you?:pac:


  • #63
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Vacation
    Pudding
    Faucet
    Refrigerator
    Automobile


  • #64
    OnTheCouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭OnTheCouch


    Agricola wrote: »
    Half, as in half pint of beer. Got some blank looks in England when asking for a glass of ale.

    Remember this scenario exactly! He just ended up giving me a pint in the end.


  • #65
    miss flutter ups
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76 ✭✭miss flutter ups


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    You've never been to Donegal have you?:pac:

    Or Cavan for that matter


  • #66
    The Backwards Man
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    miss flutter ups wrote: »
    Or Cavan for that matter
    Aye, but they just use short words to save letters.:pac:


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  • #67
    darlett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭darlett


    Shall. I think I'm the first to say this, yes.


    Similarly to posh to say is 'rather'. In the Enid Blyton Famous Five usage of the word where we might say grand.

    "Who wants Ginger Ale?"
    "OH, rather!"
    "And how about you Irish?"
    "Ah, grand yeah."


  • #68
    Ciarabear
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 116 ✭✭Ciarabear


    Awfully.

    As in "Awfully good". We'd say "rale good" instead


  • #69
    gobnaitolunacy
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    What ho, Bertie old thing?


  • #70
    Sunhill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 114 ✭✭Sunhill


    Americans use words we never hear this side of the Atlantic in order to talk about cars:
    Automobile, fender, trunk, windshield, big end, 'tire', hood, gearshift, licence plate, gas. Can anybody think of others?


  • #71
    LEIN
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    Cell phone.


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  • #72
    Archeron
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    Snuffaluffagus.


  • #73
    George Huxley 1983
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    Trunk


  • #74
    I am pie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,652 ✭✭✭I am pie


    splendid


  • #75
    Custardpi
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    As a child I remember reading English books of varying vintages & coming across wonderful words like "bounder", "cad" & "knave" which I had never heard spoken in Ireland. Tried introducing them to the playground vocabulary but with little success.


  • #76
    Colash
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    God damit. , automobile , gasoline ,


  • #77
    Custardpi
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    DD9090 wrote: »
    Cell phone.

    Actually, like any Americanism if you hang around certain parts of South Dublin long enough you probably will hear that quite a bit.


  • #78
    Custardpi
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    Colash wrote: »
    God damit. , automobile , gasoline ,

    Personally I've been using the Cartman method for expressing displeasure for quite a while - extremely satisfying!:D


  • #79
    Vomit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Vomit


    Contrafibularity


  • #80
    gugleguy
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    Pulchritude = feminite beauty of something


  • #81
    LilMrsDahamsta
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    Scold, as in give out to someone.


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  • #82
    trashcan
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    DoctorBoo wrote: »
    Shall

    Shan't
    fatknacker wrote: »
    "I was sat there"

    Thank feck no one here says that.

    That's cos it's just plain bad grammar.


  • #83
    SpaceTime
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Actually, like any Americanism if you hang around certain parts of South Dublin long enough you probably will hear that quite a bit.

    Cellphone is straight out of the, 80s to my ears.
    I immediately think of a huge Motorola brick phone.


  • #84
    SpaceTime
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    trashcan wrote: »
    Shan't



    That's cos it's just plain bad grammar.

    It's Yorkshire / Northern English.

    By eck, I were stood there standing at bus stop!


  • #85
    GhostInTheRuins
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    Cupboard.

    It's a press!


  • #86
    Custardpi
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    SpaceTime wrote: »
    Cellphone is straight out of the, 80s to my ears.
    I immediately think of a huge Motorola brick phone.

    The few times I remember people having such devices in the 80s they were referred to as "portable telephones".


  • #87
    ElvisChrist6
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    Custardpi wrote: »
    Actually, like any Americanism if you hang around certain parts of South Dublin long enough you probably will hear that quite a bit.

    I honestly have never once heard that in Ireland!


  • #88
    wintersolstice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭wintersolstice


    flannel=facecloth
    plimsolls=runners
    felt tip pens=markers
    sweater=jumper
    satchel=schoolbag


  • #89
    SpaceTime
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    wintersolstice wrote: »
    flannel=facecloth
    plimsolls=runners=rubber dollies
    felt tip pens=markers
    sweater=jumper
    satchel=schoolbag = sack
    handbag=sack

    I found it a bit weird to hear women going on about the lovely new sacks they have in Brown Thomas on Pana. Clearly a hangover from French or something.

    I'll translate some of that into Cork for you: (See above in red)

    Kinda hard to generalise about use of slang in Ireland. It varies regionally quite a bit.


  • #90
    will.i.am
    Site Banned Posts: 192 ✭✭will.i.am


    Faucet!


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  • #91
    SpaceTime
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    Anything to do with US car related language:

    Freeway - Motorway
    Highway - Main road.
    Beltway - Ring road.
    Hood - Bonnet
    Fender - Bumper
    Trunk - Boot
    Gas - Petrol

    An American also wondered why we'd big orange vans with flashing lights for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). They knew we drank a lot but...


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