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Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

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    #62
    Bepolite
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    Nagan... several years before I got that one.

    After getting transferred over from Scotland and running across a guy I'd briefly worked with there I asked the question (in Blanchardstown) how often do the staff speak Irish to each other? At which point he turned to me and said: "they're speaking English you twat".


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    #63
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    topper for a pencil sharpener
    deise08 wrote: »
    topper- sharpener.

    Surely, we weren't the only ones that called them 'parers' :eek:

    I've never actually heard the word 'topper' before..


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    #64
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    Nimr wrote: »
    Surely, we weren't the only ones that called them 'parers' :eek:

    I've never actually heard the word 'topper' before..

    Parer here too


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    #65
    Batzoo
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭Batzoo


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Never heard of flogs in Ireland, what part are you from?

    I used to get flogs all the time in Dublin back in the 80`s, I havent seen them in years though. I have seen the flumps.

    "After" is a word I don't think they use in the same way in the UK.

    "I am after getting back from the shops"
    "Tell them I was asking after them"
    "I am just after finishing my dinner"

    Banjaxed = Broken

    Wait till I tell you = Listen to me

    Arseways = turned around / mixed up

    Ask me bollocks = Expression of disbelief

    The place was black = The venue was crowded

    leggit ( pronounced Leg It, also used Peg it) = run away

    I will put the mockers on you = basically to jinx somebody

    Aul one / Aul Fella (Its easier for me to say then spell) = Mother / Father or generally an older woman or man

    To be told off = to be verbally chastised

    I could tell yis more, but its enough to be getting on with.


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    #66
    uck51js9zml2yt
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    Piped TV for cable
    Deer - dree for deirdre
    Nase for naas


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    #67
    rachiedee4298
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭rachiedee4298


    Rubber -- eraser

    Oh and peugout - why do the English add the letter R into it?? Sounds like purrjoe


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    #68
    breakfasttime
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Most Irish do, but plenty of English do as well.

    I personally pronounce it 'Aitch', but that's because I teach English and that is technically how it should be pronounced.

    I never understood leaving the 'h' out of the word Haych!
    "Aitch" sems neglectful to the letter itself!


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    #69
    cup of tea
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    'Gas man'

    Ireland: A person with a good sense of humour


    England: A man that works for the gas company


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    #70
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    Do the British call cigarettes fags as well?


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    #71
    Peregrine
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    Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »
    Parer here too

    Ah, good.

    Like countless other things, it's often referred to as 'the yoke' and you would immediately know what the other person is talking about :pac:


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    #72
    deise08
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    Marla. pronounced more la.
    they call plasticine.


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    #73
    [Deleted User]
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    deise08 wrote: »
    Marla. pronounced more la.
    they call plasticine.

    Mála (pronounced maw-la) is what I and everyone I knew when young called modelling clay.


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    #74
    tac foley
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    goz83 wrote: »
    The word "the" almost doesn't exist with the ordinary english person.

    "I'm going down pub"

    "Put bag down"

    "I am best"

    That is a Northern way of speaking, typically Yorkshire/Lancashire people who are not as well educated as they might be. I assure you that in THIS part of England nobody speaks like that. Haven't you heard of regional dialects? :eek:

    tac


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    #75
    Jellybaby1
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    tommy100 wrote: »
    also chatting to someone and you say 'your man or your one'. an english bloke was totally confused when I said "I was talking to yer one (yer man). he said, who is my man.

    When my brother went to live in England over thirty years ago, he was surprised when his English workmates didn't understand him when he said "and your man said to your man" (meaning....the first chap said to the second chap). It was quite clear to us of course, but when you think about it, it really does sound daft.

    My cousin made her English workmates laugh heartily when she used the term 'mammy' when speaking about her mother. They thought she was a bit old at thirty-five to be using such a childish word and should have said 'mum'. We couldn't see any problem with it, sure isn't every Dublin mammy, a mammy? :)

    My English niece looked shocked (she was eleven years old) when I asked her if she would like some apple tart. She only knew one meaning for the word 'tart'. Her mother said she would have understood me if I had said 'apple pie'.

    We seem to be two countries separated by a common language! :D


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    #76
    Jellybaby1
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    gvn wrote: »
    Mála (pronounced maw-la) is what I and everyone I knew when young called modelling clay.

    We used to say 'marla' when we were children in the fifties. We had actually misheard teacher! Years later we discovered our error. :rolleyes:


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    #77
    GrumpyMe
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    All the cops in UK appear to shout "On the floor!"

    We say ground - as in soil level outside!

    A floor is inside not outside...
    How come they don't get confused with "ground floor"?


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    #78
    aunt aggie
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    Someone in England asks how are you?

    I say "Grand now"

    They ask what was wrong earlier...

    Also a topper is actually called a pencil parer and no one in England has ever heard the term topper before.. i had to make the gesture for topping a pencil to be understood!!


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    #79
    mikemac1
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    Ask the English barman for a rock shandy, a red lemonade and two packs of tayto and you will disappointed :(

    Brennans bread has bus stop advertising about fixing yourself a sambo. I was told that's a racist term in England, anyone confirm?


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    #80
    sohsoh
    Registered Users Posts: 23 ✭sohsoh


    My Grandmother asked for a sliced pan in a local corner shop in the UK.

    She was told the hardware shop is down the street.


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    #81
    [Deleted User]
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    Steve wrote: »
    Irish person: What's the craic?

    English person: /looks at ceiling " I think there may have been a leak at some point"

    :)

    'What's the crack?' is extremely common in Northern England.

    I've always found it very interesting how many irish people have no idea the word was taken from English and respelt to appear Irish only 50 years ago or so.


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    #82
    BorneTobyWilde
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    ''WELL''


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    #83
    DorInTheWall
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Ask the English barman for a rock shandy, a red lemonade and two packs of tayto and you will disappointed :(

    Brennans bread has bus stop advertising about fixing yourself a sambo. I was told that's a racist term in England, anyone confirm?

    Yup. It's like golliwogs -Little Black Sambo was a children's book.


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    #84
    Sam Kade
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    aunt aggie wrote: »
    Someone in England asks how are you?

    I say "Grand now"

    They ask what was wrong earlier...

    Also a topper is actually called a pencil parer and no one in England has ever heard the term topper before.. i had to make the gesture for topping a pencil to be understood!!
    I'm Irish and around a long time I've never heard of a pencil parer called a topper.


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    #85
    aunt aggie
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I'm Irish and around a long time I've never heard of a pencil parer called a topper.

    Im from the west if it helps explain things.. whole other language that side of the Shannon ;) I had to stop saying certain phrases when I went to college in another county!!


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    #86
    Mac-Chops
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Living in England, I've noticed things I say that no one in England says. Here are a couple of examples.

    "May I have a hot chicken roll please."

    Enough to make me move home at this stage, seriously England..is a Deli here and there too much to ask?


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    #87
    Frito
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    Ireland "plug it out"
    England "unplug"


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    #88
    porsche959
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    They call Ireland Island, America is Americur. They call the ground the floor, they still can't distinguish between outdoors and indoors :rolleyes:

    Their prime minsiter thinks he is a woman called Clare.

    He starts every speech with "Let me be perfectly CLARE"


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    #89
    pickarooney
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    gvn wrote: »
    Mála (pronounced maw-la) is what I and everyone I knew when young called modelling clay.

    No, it's marla (no fada). Mála means a bag.


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    #90
    [Deleted User]
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    going to the shop to get the messages,

    think this is an irish thing


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    #91
    deise08
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    Their scallops are shellfish.
    our scallops are potato. :)
    although Waterford scallops are sliced potato covered in batter. yum!!


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