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Scrabble to ban the word "culchie" in America.

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    #62
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    True - though does non-offensive trump offensive?

    I find that offensive tbh.


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    #63
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    joeguevara wrote: »
    Collins Dictionary says it is derived from an incorrect pronunciation of the Mayo town Kiltimagh, when in fact it is derived from the Irish word 'coillte' meaning woods.

    As a culchie from Kiltimagh im going with Collins on this one. Round here it certainly isn't a derogatory word, it's a proud boast to call oneself a culchie. In Brendan Behan’s Confessions of an Irish Rebel, he refers to ‘the Culchiemachs, as we called the Irish-speaking people’


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    #64
    chosen1
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    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Or another way to put it is that a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin, while a bogger lives in a rural one. Bonus bogger points if you're farming stock.

    It's not really a serious thing though.

    Fairly common for lads in towns around the country to refer to countryside people as "culchies" and then they were "townies".

    I grew up in an area a couple of mile from a medium sized town and some of these townies would call us culchies. Half of them could probably see a herd of cows from their back window, but that didn't matter to them.


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    #65
    GetWithIt
    Registered Users Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭GetWithIt


    Coillte_Bhoy wrote: »
    As a culchie from Kiltimagh im going with Collins on this one. Round here it certainly isn't a derogatory word, it's a proud boast to call oneself a culchie. In Brendan Behan’s Confessions of an Irish Rebel, he refers to ‘the Culchiemachs, as we called the Irish-speaking people’
    Given that the Irish for Kiltimagh is Coillte Mach you’re both right.

    But you’re more right.


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    #66
    Ush1
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    It’s like how the people of Cork seem to think the place is called the Rebel county because they stood up to the British during the war of independence. It isn’t.

    It’s for their support of the House of York during the English civil war.

    Queenstown, or should I say Cork is more Jackeen than Dublin ever has been.


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    #67
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Ush1 wrote: »
    Queenstown, or should I say Cork is more Jackeen than Dublin ever has been.


    Anywhere with successful League of Ireland clubs tend to have a history of plantation, garrisons, and a suspicion towards the culture, sports, and traditions of the native Gael.


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    #68
    cdeb
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,144 Mod ✭✭✭✭cdeb


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Anywhere with successful League of Ireland clubs.
    Yeah, but he's talking about Cobh


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    #69
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    cdeb wrote: »
    Yeah, but he's talking about Cobh


    He said Cork in general. Cobh Ramblers, Bray Wanderers, Sligo Rovers are examples of those clubs that formed in port towns. Strong garrison towns.


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    #70
    housetypeb
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    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    He said Cork in general. Cobh Ramblers, Bray Wanderers, Sligo Rovers are examples of those clubs that formed in port towns. Strong garrison towns.

    They haven't banned "tan" have they? :)


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    #71
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Silage muncher is still in effect


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    #72
    Sardonicat
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    chosen1 wrote: »
    Fairly common for lads in towns around the country to refer to countryside people as "culchies" and then they were "townies".

    I grew up in an area a couple of mile from a medium sized town and some of these townies would call us culchies. Half of them could probably see a herd of cows from their back window, but that didn't matter to them.

    I am one such 'townie'.


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    #73
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Townies, and other “urban” dwelling culchies, are boggers.

    The tide is turning…



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    #74
    Sardonicat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,378 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Townies, and other “urban” dwelling culchies, are boggers.

    No, we are townies. Boggers live in the countryside. Culchies are a particular type of bogger.


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    #75
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Townies, and other “urban” dwelling culchies, are boggers.


    MART - Mucksavages Against Racist Townies.


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    #76
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    MART - Mucksavages Against Racist Townies.

    Muckmaggots against rural tossers, sounds better. That way you can fight against yourselves


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    #77
    boardise
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    joeguevara wrote: »
    Collins Dictionary says it is derived from an incorrect pronunciation of the Mayo town Kiltimagh, when in fact it is derived from the Irish word 'coillte' meaning woods.

    I thought it was a humorous abbreviation of 'culture' =a person of culture , culture vulture as it were. :D


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    #78
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I'm a culchie and it doesn't bother me, I'm just glad I'm not a bogger.
    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Or another way to put it is that a culchie lives in an urban area outside Dublin, while a bogger lives in a rural one. Bonus bogger points if you're farming stock.

    It's not really a serious thing though.

    The dictionary definition of culchie is "an unsophisticated country person" and all things considered I think that's probably the most accurate definition I've seen.

    If you want to call yourself a culchie then knock yourself out but if you want to refer to everyone from rural or urban Ireland outside Dublin as culchies then go jump in the lake.


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    #79
    Mysterypunter
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    If a townie uses the word, then it's culchial appropriation, I would demand an apology if I were a culchie, and probably bring the culchie to the ploughing championships,(or the plough match if you are a culchie) to gain better understanding of the life of a culchie, we need to educate people, knowledge is power


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    Bobblehats
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    Vita nova wrote: »
    The dictionary definition of culchie is "an unsophisticated country person" and all things considered I think that's probably the most accurate definition I've seen.

    A mythical creature steeped in lore


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    #81
    Kylta
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    Truthfully can any country person tell me the last time they were called any kind of derogatory word to the face by a dub or a fellow culchie?


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    #82
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Kylta wrote: »
    Muckmaggots against rural tossers, sounds better. That way you can fight against yourselves


    Amongst, surely?


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    #83
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Levathians of the Slurry


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    #84
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    biko wrote: »
    But Jackeen is still allowed

    I am a PROUD jackeen ...to me all it means is that you are a DUB.


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    #85
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Amongst, surely?

    I'm a dub you were lucky to get against


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    #86
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    By the way culchie is short for cultured.


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    #87
    Kylta
    Registered Users Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    By the way culchie is short for cultured.

    Brilliant ring up scrabble and try not to be upset at their laughter


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    #88
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,926 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    By the way culchie is short for cultured.
    I always assumed that it had something to do with the word "agriculture". Not that I ever thought about it too much, that would be weird.


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    #89
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Deadmou5e wrote: »
    One foots their own turf, the other buys in it.
    I'm a pilot.


    The others cut the turf. And I pilot.


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    #90
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,695 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    ILoveYourVibes wrote: »
    By the way culchie is short for cultured.
    Like yoghurt ?


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    #91
    Potential-Monke
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    Let them at it. A few hundred more words and I'll release a 'Cards Against Scrabble', make a killing from it. Only banned Scrabble words allowed.


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