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Words, phrases, contractions and idioms you'd only hear in Ireland

  • 09-07-2013 06:59PM
    #1
    balfe1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭


    Just crossed my mind; while I'm sure it's not technically proper by any stretch, "amn't" is pretty widely used here, yet I've never heard any other nationality utter it.

    Is it a strictly Irish thing? Any others?


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  • #2
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    'Tisnt


  • #3
    balfe1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭balfe1990


    I've also never heard "Tippin' awhay" outside of Kerry


  • #4
    Citycap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 200 ✭✭Citycap


    balfe1990 wrote: »
    Just crossed my mind; while I'm sure it's not technically proper by any stretch, "amn't" is pretty widely used here, yet I've never heard any other nationality utter it.

    Is it a strictly Irish thing? Any others?

    pacific instead of "specific"

    In North West Cork near the Kerry border they substitute a "v" with a "w"
    e.g. He was drinking wodka and he drank so much he started womiting


  • #5
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Tis


  • #6
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,205 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    N'all an n'anyways


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  • #7
    keelanj69
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,089 ✭✭✭keelanj69


    Give you an example? I will, yeah.


  • #8
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    "usen't"


  • #9
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    and to complete the holy trinity...
    Tis so it is


  • #10
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    balfe1990 wrote: »
    I've also never heard "Tippin' awhay" outside of Kerry
    you've never travelled so (to Tipp, genuinely tis used there)


  • #11
    clairefontaine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,390 ✭✭✭clairefontaine


    Yanks


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  • #12
    Iwasfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,250 ✭✭✭✭Iwasfrozen


    balfe1990 wrote: »
    I've also never heard "Tippin' awhay" outside of Kerry
    Common in Monaghan.


  • #13
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,228 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    "Pan" for Bread is an odd one. There is one other country where it means the same thing: Japan. But パン is a foreign loan-word, not a native Japanese word, since historically there was never bread in Japan before they had Western visitors.

    But "give out", meaning to complain, is one I never heard in English before I came here.

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  • #14
    Ihatecuddles-old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I do be sweatin' in this heat.


  • #15
    11Charlie11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 941 ✭✭✭11Charlie11


    "Bye,bye,bye,bye" .. At the end of a call :)


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Foundered and sweltered.


  • #17
    dixiedan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 819 ✭✭✭dixiedan


    Is that youser dog?


  • #18
    Drkitkat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭Drkitkat


    using yoke to describe something that's not a yoke.


  • #19
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    keelanj69 wrote: »
    Give you an example? I will, yeah.

    Will you do it now in a minute?


  • #20
    Clareboy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 536 ✭✭✭Clareboy


    D'oul back is ' at me '. In other words, my back is giving me trouble.


  • #21
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,316 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    December2012 wrote: »
    'Tisnt
    wil wrote: »
    Tis

    These were both very common for centuries in England and they're still used, but to a lesser extent, and usually in more rural areas.


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  • #22
    RandomName2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭RandomName2


    You'll get a lot here:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/SminkyAnimation?feature=watch


  • #23
    December2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,695 ✭✭✭December2012


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    These were both very common for centuries in England and they're still used, but to a lesser extent, and usually in more rural areas.

    Feck off!


  • #24
    Renegade Mechanic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,928 ✭✭✭Renegade Mechanic


    Here in tipp "threw" seems to have been forgotten. The proper response, if hit by another messers projectile is thus:
    WHO THRUN THA!?!


  • #25
    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    ''Words, phrases, contractions and idioms you'd only hear in Ireland'' threads.


  • #26
    balfe1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 507 ✭✭✭balfe1990


    :pac:

    Hew trun dah, forgot about that one.

    Having a good aul lol here about how illogical a lot of the Irish sayings are, and how I never notice until its put to me


  • #27
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    'Anal' used instead of 'and all' seems to be popular among the skanger classes, i.e, 'pool anal in it':D


  • #28
    dan dan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭dan dan


    gwin ,gwout,gwup, gwoff ,gway,

    go in, go out, go up,go off ,go away.

    South Tipp.


  • #29
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Clareboy wrote: »
    D'oul back is ' at me '. In other words, my back is giving me trouble.

    Yerra, what happened ya crather? :D


  • #30
    Fergus_Nash
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 228 ✭✭Fergus_Nash


    Quare


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  • #31
    wil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    These were both very common for centuries in England and they're still used, but to a lesser extent, and usually in more rural areas.
    They are so they are:)


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