Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

In English it's pronounced fu-kin-rye-nairs-fault. At least it seemed to be at the time.

One thing the English don't seem to grasp is the use of the word grand to mean ok or passable - not magnificent or, eh, grand!

Do you like my new t shirt?
Yea, it's grand.
Fúck off back to spud land you sarcastic paddy bastard.

(Note: This conversation most likely has never happened, nor will ever happen!)

SpaceTime wrote: »

"The Icelandic Volcano" ....Eyjafjallajökull ... Not remotely like how it reads in English.

Goteborg in Sweden = pronounced Yerta-bora.

tac, pronounced tac

SpaceTime wrote: »

Or where English gets completely carried away and adds a silent S to the French city of Lyon

Not Englands fault the French can't spell the name of the tea shop properly

SpaceTime wrote: »

Try putting someone from deepest Kerry on the phone with someone from a remote part of East Donegal and you'll see how compatible they are.

I am from deepest south Kerry. I avoid, where possible trying to speak to anyone from Donegal on the phone during work. I may get someone that I can understand but for the vast majority of conversations, they may as well be speaking Cantonese. If I was lucky, I could pick up the odd word but that was it.

I have also spent time in the north east of England. The issue there appears to be that they constantly use local slang without realising that it is not standard English. When dealing with people from there for work, we will modify our language and ensure that we arare not using any colloquiums. Do you think that they return the favour?! Skrat was met by blank looks (means snack) but hilariously they inferred that we could not speak English correctly.

Are u going to the ploughing

'Well wear', a kind of a blessing spoken to somebody somebody getting something new that he or she has been looking forward to getting.

Never heard of here in mainland UK, mind you, I never heard it up North either.

Derivation/etymology of that phrase would be good to know.

tac

Basil3 wrote: »

I know this is a bit OT, but....

Speaking of brand/company names, some companies obviously don't get their advertising execs together and say "right, this is how you pronounce the name of our product".

Couple of examples I can think of from ads on TV:

Pantene shampoo: pronounced pan-ten on ads here, pan-teen on ads in NZ.
Maggi soups: pronounced maggy on ads here, madgy on ads in NZ.

I know what you mean. 'Titleist' had me puzzled for years.... 'Tit-leist? What the he77 does THAT mean?

You get it right down there where Maggi IS pronounced 'madgy' - think of Lake Maggiore.

However, you have it wrong with Pantene - there is a circumflex accent over the first 'e' that makes it into a sort of 'eh' sound - nearest to it IS 'Pan-ten'.

tac, prounounced 'tac'

I'm not American, but I'm pretty old, and although a French-speaker, I also say Nessle, like my French-speaking grandam, who always called it Nessle.

Must be something in the flavouring, I guess.

tac

another I heard today. fella said to an english girl. (it was raining heavily and they were going biking up the mountains). "stand in a there a bit snd stay out of the wet". she didn't understand stay out of the wet

sammyjo90 wrote: »

Irish call a swede a turnip! A turnip is a different vegetable entirely!

Well, WE call it a rutabaga.

tac

"Oh aye", depending on the inflection it can have a variety of meanings.

Puibo wrote: »

The English say "free" and we say three!!

The 'lower orders', particularly around the South East - London and Essex and thereabouts, say 'free', 'fret' for 'threat', fought for 'thought' and so on - they also say Haitch.

However, the majority of English English-speakers do not.

Regional accents are as prevalent and obvious here in UK as they are in Ireland, and need to be studied in far more in detail before such sweeping generalisations can be made.

In MY experience, including that living with my Irish-speaking 'fader', many Irish people don't actually say 'three', but DO say 'tree', and carry it on with most words that begin with 'TH' in English. Here on boards.ie I've noticed that many posters actually write 'taught' instead of 'thought', proof positive that they hear the word in their head as beginning with 'T' and not 'THE'.

tac

Puibo wrote: »

Cheers for the elecution lessons mate but perhaps i should explain to you that this thread or fred as you would say is to be taken with a pinch of salt......

.....if you need me to elaborate just ask.

I don't say 'fred', since I have neither an English nor an Irish accent. And I also appreciate that this thread is to be taken with a pinch of salt, else I wouldn't be posting on it.

I'm certainly not clever enough to be giving anybody elocution lessons, nor do I have any interest in any elaboration that you might offer me, thanks all the same.

tac

mon t fuccccccck


I lived in England until I was 18, but my whole family is Irish and the school I went to was Catholic. So it was full of kids whose parents had emigrated over, the school was a confusing jumble of kids learning correct English and then randomly spouting Irish expressions learned from their parents, a lot of the teachers were Irish too. The one friend of mine who had no Irish heritage at all once announced that she felt segregated because of her lack of 'Irishness' and said she didn't understand teachers and students sometimes. hahaha :-)

Banjaxed gave some great looks from people who thought I had lost my mind. Got some great smirks off the Irish teachers for saying it too. Sense of community using those words in a different country.