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Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

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    #122
    ZeitgeistGlee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,566 ✭✭✭ZeitgeistGlee


    Jacks as slang for the toilet.

    Actually surprised me a bit given the term is derived from the Ajax (the first modern toilet) which was designed by Englishman John Harrington.

    May just have been a Northern England unfamiliarity though.


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    #123
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    There are just as big regional differences in England though.

    My Yorkshire friend gets the absolute pi$$ taken out of her in London.

    They all say Ay! up! When they meet her and spend hours getting her to say things like "upper".

    She also gets corrected for saying things like " I was stood standing there for an hour" or "I was sat sitting on bus when..." and for her refusal to use "the" or "a".
    Put kettle on!

    The worst bit was when people were asking her to say " They're full of oaty goodness " just to mock her accent.

    Also when she went home to "Wet baby's (h)ead"

    (Go to a christening)


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    #124
    Bepolite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    While we're digressing into other regionalities, the Andrew Marr 3 parter on Scottish lit was amazing. Well worth a watch for anyone into the evolution of language.


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    #125
    mapaca
    Registered Users Posts: 405 ✭✭mapaca


    "We won't feel it till Christmas"

    Said this one day to my English colleagues, puzzled faces all round.


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    #126
    deise08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,330 ✭✭✭deise08


    We go to mass.
    they go to church.


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    #127
    Jumboman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    "Would you cop your self on"

    I dont think they say that in England.


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    #128
    The Adversary
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    "Thank you"

    Irish: sound or sound out.

    English: lovely jubily.


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    #129
    sw33t_r3v3ng3
    Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭sw33t_r3v3ng3


    Whats the story?

    Any sca?

    Arii

    Sound Man


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    #130
    Bepolite
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    Top of the Morning... only ever said in England.


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    #131
    Bigus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,939 ✭✭✭Bigus


    We say; the car needs to be fixed !

    They say;the car needs fixing !

    Are we more grammatically correct or do we need teaching ( or to be taught )


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    #132
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    deise08 wrote: »
    We go to mass.
    they go to church.

    They're feckin heathens ;)


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    #133
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    deise08 wrote: »
    We go to mass.
    they go to church.

    They are probably not going to a Roman Catholic church.

    tac


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    #134
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    The Adversary wrote: »
    "Thank you"

    Irish: sound or sound out.

    English: lovely jubily jubbly.

    Fixed.

    tac


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    #135
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    ZeitgeistGlee wrote: »
    Jacks as slang for the toilet.

    Actually surprised me a bit given the term is derived from the Ajax (the first modern toilet) which was designed by Englishman John Harrington.

    May just have been a Northern England unfamiliarity though.

    The word 'jakes' for lavatory/toilet was common usage in medieval and Tudor England.

    tac


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    #136
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Not2Good wrote: »
    "She had the face of a melted welly … " heard from a Tipp man describing a girl in the disco who in his opinion wasn't as pretty as the other girls. I guess this was a one-off expression which didn't take off (Thank God)

    Slightly OT, but on the same subject - 'she had a face like a bulldog licking pi$$ off a nettle.'

    Not a raving beauty, then, I guess?

    tac


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    #137
    con___manx1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,473 ✭✭✭con___manx1


    mod9maple wrote: »
    See I don't get this. I know lots of people say the latter, have done my whole life. :confused:

    I'm from the south east and I have never heard anyone call st Stevens day Boxing Day . I'd imagine in Northern Ireland it would be called Boxing Day .


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    #138
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    bubblypop wrote: »
    What????!!!!
    Most of my extremely well educated Yorkshire family would disagree.

    Cheek!!

    Yorkshire born yorkshire bred strong in't arm thick in't 'ead., as me old fella use to say :cool:


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    #139
    Builderwoman!
    Registered Users Posts: 578 ✭✭✭Builderwoman!


    Spring Onions in England
    Scallions in Ireland


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    #140
    MoodeRator
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    English - Overtake him/here
    Irish - Pass him/her out

    English - The thing I can think of the name for
    Irish - YOKE!


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    #141
    SpaceTime
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    Builderwoman! wrote: »
    Spring Onions in England
    Scallions in Ireland

    Scallion's actually the technically correct term. Spring onion is a colloquialism in this case. They also call them "Salad onions" which just sounds completely stupid.

    They're scallions in the USA too.


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    #142
    SpaceTime
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    MoodeRator wrote: »
    English - Overtake him/here
    Irish - Pass him/her out

    English - The thing I can think of the name for
    Irish - YOKE!

    That'd be a "thingie", a "whatyamaycallit" or a "thingimebob"

    What's his name in England often = "what's his face" too.
    con___manx1 wrote: »
    I'm from the south east and I have never heard anyone call st Stevens day Boxing Day . I'd imagine in Northern Ireland it would be called Boxing Day .

    I don't usually remember it due to all the food consumption! I do a mixture of French and Irish xmas traditions so I have to eat 13 desserts (Treize desserts pour noel ... allegedly something religious but, I think it's mostly about eating 13 desserts), set a log on fire, eat a turkey, champagne, oysters, brandy, a christmas cake, christmas pudding, wine, beer, spiced beef (a Cork thing), ham the list goes on and on...

    Multiculturalism is sometimes bad for the waistline.


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    #143
    con___manx1
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    your one or your man. the english dont no what your on about when you say your one. ; ) that hot one over there at the other side of the bar : )


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    #144
    tommy100
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭tommy100


    yep we say higher it up. 'bring it upstairs with ya' don't see anything wrong with that???

    and we use to always call it 'mala' (mawla)


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    #145
    tommy100
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭tommy100


    yeah its billy jo-el ( thats its pronunciation)


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    #146
    tommy100
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭tommy100


    also, heard of both pairer and topper, but where we are from it was called a 'pointer'


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    #147
    tommy100
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭tommy100


    pigs trotters ??? cubeen???


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    #148
    tommy100
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭tommy100


    crubeens????


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    #149
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,500 ✭✭✭tac foley


    tommy100 wrote: »
    crubeens????

    Sure - crúibín = Irish for pig's foot.

    My dad would often eat one while my mom was away with relatives somewhere - not kosher, y'know. ;)

    tac


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    #150
    SpaceTime
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    How often do pigs feet come up in conversion. They're hardly something eaten in either Bundy since the 19th century.
    Crubeens sounds much less primitive than calling them trotters.


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    #151
    Stepping Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 370 ✭✭Stepping Stone


    They say 'I was sat' we say 'I sat' or 'I was sitting'.

    We are grammatically correct. That said, I repeatedly hear 'I do be' here and I die a tiny bit every time. 'I would have bought, etc' is another uniquely Irish one. Conditional tense mixed in there must be confusing for anyone from outside Ireland.


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