Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

degsie · 01-03-2015 12:51pm

Irish people say 'England' when they mean 'Mainland Britain' which is kinda dumb.

Quazzie · 01-03-2015 12:54pm

degsie wrote: »

Irish people say 'England' when they mean 'Mainland Britain' which is kinda dumb.

For a lot of people when they learned about GB it was mostly just England. Don't forget Wales only became a country in 1997.

El_Duderino 09 · 01-03-2015 1:35pm

piuswal wrote: »

Have we had the double positive response meaning a negative, as in;

"yea, right" meaning no?

That's a good one.

Same with 'I will, yeah'. Best do it yourself

LauraKc · 01-03-2015 4:41pm

Here we often use "sick" meaning disgusting but in England they use it meaning great or deadly. I once told my english cousin that I didn't like a dessert I got and that it was sick. He was so confused. 😄

Faith+1 · 03-03-2015 3:54pm

My god we talk weird.....

Magico Gonzalez · 03-03-2015 4:25pm

"that's gas" does not translate well for los ingleses.

Mearings · 03-03-2015 5:48pm

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

"that's gas" does not translate well for los ingleses.

A gas man is not someone who walks around with a handheld computer, noting the moving digits on a meter and who is not necessarilly the life and soul of a party.

piuswal · 04-03-2015 11:47pm

Got a text today saying "I'm in bed with a dose", what's the English version ?

degsie · 05-03-2015 1:41am

piuswal wrote: »

Got a text today saying "I'm in bed with a dose", what's the English version ?

"I'm in bed with an amount of prescribed drug to be taken at any one time"

piuswal · 05-03-2015 1:46am

degsie wrote: »

"I'm in bed with an amount of prescribed drug to be taken at any one time"

He meant he had the flu or other short term illness

degsie · 05-03-2015 1:48am

piuswal wrote: »

He meant he had the flu or other short term illness

Or crabs?

madmaggie · 05-03-2015 2:15am

"Spare the electric", or was that only in my house?

P. Breathnach · 05-03-2015 10:29am

piuswal wrote: »

He meant he had the flu or other short term illness

Are you sure? Dose can also be a derogatory term for a person that you find annoying, as in "Yer wan is a right dose".

miamee · 05-03-2015 10:46am

P. Breathnach wrote: »

Are you sure? Dose can also be a derogatory term for a person that you find annoying, as in "Yer wan is a right dose".

In the context of being in bed with a dose, I'd take that to mean a dose of the flu/a bug of some sort. In England I'm guessing they'd say "I'm in bed, poorly" or I'm unwell in bed" or something similar.

El_Duderino 09 · 06-03-2015 12:57pm

This is something that could only happen in Ireland.

We had a house in the countryside and planted pear trees. Moved to another house nearby so the new owners would drop us up a bag of pears each year and leave it at the door.

This happened as normal last year and a few days later the postman saw my mother and told her "them pears were lovely but jaysus there was fierce roughage in the skins. Felt it on the way out"

The fuffer helped himself and had the cheek to comment on the fiber content.

Polar101 · 20-03-2015 5:45pm

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Pop refers to any fizzy, sweet drink so it includes cola etc. More like Americans say soda.

We say minerals meaning non alcoholic drinks which others don't do

I went to a cinema with a Canadian, I bought a coke and he wanted the same so he said "large pop" - he ended up with lots of popcorn.

tac foley · 20-03-2015 6:19pm

miamee wrote: »

In the context of being in bed with a dose, I'd take that to mean a dose of the flu/a bug of some sort. In England I'm guessing they'd say "I'm in bed, poorly" or I'm unwell in bed" or something similar.

In UK if you say you have a dose, it usually means a 'dose of the clap' - a venereal disease of one kind or the other.

Depending where you are are in England there are many ways that you say that you have been taken to your bed with some kind of illness.

'He's taken to his bed' doesn't mean that somebody has put him there, but that he has been forced to stay there because of some kind of illness. You generally hear 'He took to his bed' which has the same meaning.

tac

Tombo2001 · 20-03-2015 6:23pm

tac foley wrote: »

So how, my Welsh wife asks, would an Irish person pronounce Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant?

Or maybe just Ymddiradolaeth Genadlaethol Cymru?

tac

hmm....is that 'would an Irish person pronounce it' or 'how would an Irish person pronounce it'.......

SMJSF · 20-03-2015 7:12pm

When I was staying up in Donegal, I heard someone say "wha abou cha" (what about you) ..... I was told it was their way of saying how are you/things... how is a Dublin person supposed to know how to answer that!!?

Renegade Mechanic · 20-03-2015 7:16pm

Tiocaigh ár lá..

eternal · 20-03-2015 7:17pm

I'll tear the hole off ya.

FunLover18 · 20-03-2015 7:24pm

Apparently the English don't 'give out' to people

RobbingBandit · 20-03-2015 7:28pm

Whopper, still no idea why loads of Irish say this to indicate something is good.

I'm Irish myself btw.

bodhi085 · 20-03-2015 7:31pm

Being an English fella here for 15 years now and I went to a club the first week of moving over and some girl said "sorry" as she stood there waiting to get past. Had me baffled. Now I've been here that long that I'm always saying Irish sayings like that. My family in the uk would be wondering the stuff I come out with on Skype. Runners (trainers) rashers (bacon) bye bye bye!!!

languagenerd · 20-03-2015 7:54pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Apparently the English don't 'give out' to people

No, they "tell them off" or "scold" them.

And some of them seem to think that "giving out" must be some sort of sex reference :pac:

tac foley · 20-03-2015 8:19pm

SMJSF wrote: »

When I was staying up in Donegal, I heard someone say "wha abou cha" (what about you) ..... I was told it was their way of saying how are you/things... how is a Dublin person supposed to know how to answer that!!?

In certain parts of Norn Iron they say 'Howzaboutcha?'

tac

caitie · 20-03-2015 8:58pm

I did a module on this in college! The study of Hiberno- English.

Their 'bold' is courageous, ours is 'naughty', but we would never actually use the word naughty! When they say 'pants', they mean 'underpants', we mean 'trousers'.

There's so many it's really interesting! We have different grammatical construction on our sentences and use different phrases.... We even, unknowingly, pronounce words differently because the way English people pronounce them isn't natural on an Irish tongue. For example, 'film' becomes 'filum' because the 'lm' sound doesn't exist in Irish!

tac foley · 20-03-2015 11:59pm

caitie wrote: »

I did a module on this in college! The study of Hiberno- English.

Their 'bold' is courageous, ours is 'naughty', but we would never actually use the word naughty! When they say 'pants', they mean 'underpants', we mean 'trousers'.

There's so many it's really interesting! We have different grammatical construction on our sentences and use different phrases.... We even, unknowingly, pronounce words differently because the way English people pronounce them isn't natural on an Irish tongue. For example, 'film' becomes 'filum' because the 'lm' sound doesn't exist in Irish!

Americans and Canadians say 'pants' for trousers, but the English do not, unless, of course, they are speaking so-called 'Mid-Atlantic' English which contains many Americanisms.

My dad, from Cork, had a powerfully thick accent that you could use to sole a boot, and in spite of living in England for many years, lost none of it.

HE used to say 'fillum', but also the Azoo, rather than the zoo.

tac

caitie · 21-03-2015 12:05am

tac foley wrote: »

Americans and Canadians say 'pants' for trousers, but the English do not, unless, of course, they are speaking so-called 'Mid-Atlantic' English which contains many Americanisms.

My dad, from Cork, had a powerfully thick accent that you could use to sole a boot, and in spite of living in England for many years, lost none of it.

HE used to say 'fillum', but also the Azoo, rather than the zoo.

tac

We say 'pants' for trousers here in Ireland too, but the English use the word 'pants' when they're talking about 'underpants'.... that particular word has caused some confusion for me a few times! haha

I must root out my old notes on all this, we did a class on accents as well and they were fair funny!

worded · 21-03-2015 12:09am

Irish mates living in London in the 80s said no one understood the word "gee". If you were overheard and asked what you meant when you said she had a lovely gee, you could say, it means personality in ireland.

Meteorite58 · 21-03-2015 12:10am

England : 'He has a mental health issue'.

Ireland: 'He is wired to the moon'.

Sleveile · 21-03-2015 12:39am

Red Lemonade, unique to Ireland as far as I know.

Seve OB · 21-03-2015 12:41am

when they are here on holidays and are heading home, they say they are heading "back to the mainland"

bodhi085 · 21-03-2015 12:49am

We call our money euros
They call it funny money

P. Breathnach · 21-03-2015 11:30am

tac foley wrote: »

...
'He's taken to his bed' doesn't mean that somebody has put him there, but that he has been forced to stay there because of some kind of illness. You generally hear 'He took to his bed' which has the same meaning....

In Ireland, "he took to the bed" is often used to say that a person is suffering from depression rather than a somatic illness.

P. Breathnach · 21-03-2015 11:34am

tac foley wrote: »

In certain parts of Norn Iron they say 'Howzaboutcha?'

Howzabycha.

High nigh brine Kai?

saralou2011 · 21-03-2015 1:00pm

We say get thick meaning giving out/get mad.
Over there thick means dumb.

P. Breathnach · 21-03-2015 1:21pm

saralou2011 wrote: »

We say get thick meaning giving out/get mad.

It's a while since I heard that one. Do you think it is used less now than in the past?

Over there thick means dumb.

There's another meaning of thick which I haven't heard in recent years - meaning close friendship: "Those two, they're very thick with each other". It's similar to the meaning in the expression "as thick as thieves".

21-03-2015 8:26pm

One thing that has been bugging me since I went back to college is my lecturer talking about columes. I have no idea how I went through my whole life without hearing the word colume....then I realised they were talking about columns...bizarre! Is this a normal Irish thing?

languagenerd · 21-03-2015 8:36pm

Basil3 wrote: »

One thing that has been bugging me since I went back to college is my lecturer talking about columes. I have no idea how I went through my whole life without hearing the word colume....then I realised they were talking about columns...bizarre! Is this a normal Irish thing?

Yep. I'm currently studying in the UK - myself and the other Irish person in my class get slagged mercilessly for pronouncing it "colume"

madmaggie · 22-03-2015 1:15am

bodhi085 wrote: »

Being an English fella here for 15 years now and I went to a club the first week of moving over and some girl said "sorry" as she stood there waiting to get past. Had me baffled. Now I've been here that long that I'm always saying Irish sayings like that. My family in the uk would be wondering the stuff I come out with on Skype. Runners (trainers) rashers (bacon) bye bye bye!!!

Ah you're grand!:D

Seve OB · 22-03-2015 3:25pm

Out with a bunch of English lads this weekend. They do a whip!

It's basically a kitty, but I've never heard of a whip before.... Maybe makes sense though, I presume it comes from whip around

Mysteriouschic · 22-03-2015 5:01pm

Irish - Hair bobbin
English - Hair band

When it's raining
Irish - it's lashing outside
English - It's pissing outside

Irish - Buzzing
I'm not sure what the English equivalent is.

I use more of the English phrases only some of the irish phrases.

FunLover18 · 22-03-2015 5:04pm

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

Irish - Hair bobbin
English - Hair band

Are they not two different things?

A bobbin is used to tie hair back in a ponytail whereas a band is used to pull the hair back away from the forehead

Mysteriouschic · 22-03-2015 5:21pm

FunLover18 wrote: »

Are they not two different things?

A bobbin is used to tie hair back in a ponytail whereas a band is used to pull the hair back away from the forehead

English say hair band for the ones you tie the hair back too I've always said hair band an all my English mates say the same. I used to have no idea what a bobbin was.

nuac · 12-01-2017 3:31pm

McGaggs wrote: »

Never heard it and only ever seen it written on boards.ie

Very common in the West of Ireland

piuswal · 12-01-2017 3:47pm

Seve OB wrote: »

Out with a bunch of English lads this weekend. They do a whip!

It's basically a kitty, but I've never heard of a whip before.... Maybe makes sense though, I presume it comes from whip around

a "whip (a)round"

to generate a fund for various options

set up a kitty

to help/support someone, friend or otherwise

tac foley · 12-01-2017 4:07pm

Another thing my dad used to say, about something that was in a very poor state of repair, that it was 'hanging to pieces'.

tac

Father Hernandez · 12-01-2017 4:17pm

Ireland - Runners
Rest of the World - Trainers/Sneakers

Ireland - Gimme that yoke
England - ???

Ireland - I will in me hole
England - No, I will not do that

lardarse · 01-12-2017 12:23pm

I`m originally from over the Irish sea, and was living down in London with my Irish girlfriend, her teenage sister came over to stay with us for a few weeks. We where walking down the road one day, when she stopped dead in the street and burst out laughing. So i asked her whats up? She pointed at the side of a mini bus, which read "dial-a-ride" which in london at the time was a service to take the old folks to hospital appointments and the like. She was thinking London had some very liberal sex laws.

Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

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