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  • #152
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,791 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    mehico wrote: »
    Sometimes you see the word "ilk" used on Boards but I don't think I have ever heard anyone use it in a conversation in person.

    There's probably a whole sub-thread in that about words only used in print \ online but not in conversation.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #153
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    I'd use ilk often enough tbh. eg "someone of that ilk".

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #154
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    I'm going to regret this, but get your arm up where exactly?

    Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

    Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.


  • #155
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Parley (meet, discuss).


  • #156
    silliussoddius
    Registered Users Posts: 3,692 ✭✭✭silliussoddius


    Gregor Samsa wrote: »
    Yeah, but BC and AD don't make any sense either, since (as I know you know), neither count time from the year Jesus was born.

    Either way, it's just a convention. And conventions don't necessarily make any sense.

    You could always say that it's pc to base a calendar around the birth of someone important to one religion, and the whole existence question etc.
    But changing the term while still referring to the same time frame is pointless.


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  • #157
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,520 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

    Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.

    I dunno, ATNM, that sounds illegal.

    The tide is turning…



  • #158
    Leg End Reject
    Registered Users Posts: 16,311 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Up the sheath, the house where the penis lives like a sword in a scabbard.

    Your arm goes in very far, you have to reach to the elbow, it's fcuking weird.
    Vile.
    https://forumofgames.com/index.php

    >>> Staying Alive <<<



  • #159
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 13,712 ✭✭✭✭[Deleted User]


    Leg End Reject wrote: »
    Vile.

    *accidentally **** off a horse* "What a bunch of prudes"

    Back to old words for things, a thill is an old word you don't hear much of -- refers to a shaft, as in the shaft of a garden shovel or the beam of a cart. Probably somehow related to 'tiller', they both come from old french words for wooden shafts. (Get your minds out of the gutter.)

    Will o'the wisp: bending the rules, as it's an expression instead of a word, but that's another one most younger people woudln't know: a rare sighting on bogs and moors, it's where a light appears to flicker just above the ground, due to the oxidation of Phosphine. Also called Jacky the Lantern.

    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/folklore-of-ireland/folklore-in-ireland/traditional-storytelling/the-folktale/types-of-folktales/the-smith-and-the-devil-(/


  • #160
    iamstop
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 11,788 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop


    Phonograph
    8-track
    VCR

    https://open.spotify.com/album/69JKwCcZGdLqX4Upj3DwP7



  • #161
    Kewreeuss
    Registered Users Posts: 744 ✭✭✭Kewreeuss


    bocaman wrote: »
    Slacks

    I think American men wear them still. Maybe �� Not jeans, not trousers that are part of a suit or businessy,something in between. I’ve come across them in books. Strange because I always thought slacks were 1950 and 60’s female trousers. Or pants as they are there.

    You don’t hear twinset anymore or mantilla


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  • #162
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,716 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Footpad.
    Cutpurse.
    Vagabond.
    Itinerant.
    Aviatrix.


  • #163
    Rket4000
    Registered Users Posts: 183 ✭✭Rket4000


    Tilden Katz wrote: »
    Cringeworthy. It's mostly been replaced by cringey. I still persevere in using cringeworthy though. It's far more satisfying to say.

    In the same vein, everyone is sooooo judgy nowadays instead of judgemental


  • #164
    riclad
    Registered Users Posts: 8,184 ✭✭✭riclad


    bbs, old forums used before broadband existed.
    dial up bulletin board.
    slacks is still a common word in america.
    jazz mags.
    old word for porn mags.
    reefer old word for hash.
    weblog old word for blog.


  • #165
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,761 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Jackanapes - for a person with the intelligence of horse Smegma.


  • #166
    Scribbler100
    Registered Users Posts: 323 ✭✭Scribbler100


    "Get the messages", meaning "Do the shopping".


  • #167
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,432 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Mimon wrote: »
    Yeh, when did this change and why? Suddenly had this new BCE sh!te forced on us :mad: Don't even know the new AD term.
    I started a Bible-related college course in 1991, and BCE and CE were the terms used then, in that academic situation. Not in the real world, though.
    Doctors room ghost wrote: »
    Ludramaun
    I use that the odd time, but just because it was a word my father used a lot, so I'm just keeping it alive for him. :D
    bocaman wrote: »
    Slacks
    Last weekend, my brother (who's younger than me) asked me if I ever wear slacks. :eek: (I don't.) And he has never been anywhere near America.


  • #168
    SouthWesterly
    Registered Users Posts: 6,438 ✭✭✭SouthWesterly


    Superfluity...


  • #169
    NewbridgeIR
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    "I'll have a mineral" (when offered a drink and you want a soft one)


  • #170
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,791 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    "I'll have a mineral" (when offered a drink and you want a soft one)

    I still see it listed on menus rather than soft drink.
    Must confuse the hell outta furriners.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #171
    johndaman66
    Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    Film (now commonly called a movie).

    Chemist (now commonly called a Pharmacy). It's probably a reflection of where the industry has gone more than the commonly used name shifting from chemist to pharmacy but....to me chemist conjures up an image of an well seasoned old guy in a white coat and glasses knowing exactly whats needed to sort that itchy flaky sack, invariably often saving you a trip to the doctor for anything that is over the counter. Pharmacy on the other hand conjures up an image of a place more interested in shifting Hugo Boss and 500 ml bottles of coke zero.

    Conservatory (now commonly called a sun room).

    Match as in rugby, football, hurling match etc (now more commonly called the game).

    Solicitor (now more commonly called lawyer for some reason - possibly will become attorney in a few years time?)

    Bear with me - so 2002 at this stage!


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  • #172
    The Continental Op
    Registered Users Posts: 6,152 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    johndaman66 wrote: »
    Film (now commonly called a movie).

    ..

    So thats how it was spelt I thought it was "Fillim"

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • #173
    theoneeyedman
    Registered Users Posts: 6,321 ✭✭✭theoneeyedman


    Shop.

    There are no 'shops' any more, only stores. WTF?

    There is probably some marketing psycho babble reason behind it, but everything here now is a furniture store, a hardware store, etc etc... Bullsh1t


  • #174
    Terry..
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭Terry..


    theoneeyedman wrote: »
    Shop.

    There are no 'shops' any more, only stores. WTF?

    There is probably some marketing psycho babble reason behind it, but everything here now is a furniture store, a hardware store, etc etc... Bullsh1t

    Probably an Americanism

    Shop at a store


  • #175
    Sgt Hartman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,437 ✭✭✭Sgt Hartman


    "I' th'" instead of "in the" from Shakespearean English, for Example "How came my man i' th' stocks?" instead of "How come my man is in the stocks?" It was a line I remember from studying King Lear in school.

    "Gout' instead of "Go out" and "Goin" instead of "Go in" was quite common in Limerick but it has completely fallen out of use in recent years..


  • #176
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,064 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    The Continental Op wrote: »
    So thats how it was spelt I thought it was "Fillim"
    Probably something of Hiberno English thing, a holdover from older English. So Shakespeare would have said "Fillum" and that was retained more here. In the original printings of Hamlet IIRC it's spelled "Fillum". Press instead of cupboard another holdover from older English, as is shores instead of drains I mentioned earlier.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #177
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,791 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Hollyspud wrote: »
    Henceforth

    Aha is that what we used to say before 'going forwards'?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • #178
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    H
    Hollyspud wrote: »
    Henceforth

    I say it all the time its like go; henceforth. To wence you came!

    Also end up sayin fillum loads but that's pure coincidental. Just good english.. :rolleyes:


  • #179
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users Posts: 15,716 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Water closet.

    Pantry.

    Garret. (Think property agencies call them "studio apartments" now. :D)


  • #180
    Gwynplaine
    Registered Users Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Gwynplaine


    Hucksters, Kipeens, Foldoddle.

    Who knows their meaning?


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  • #181
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Gwynplaine wrote: »
    Hucksters, Kipeens, Foldoddle.

    Who knows their meaning?

    Huckster is somebody who pushes their wares
    Foldoddle is a thingamejig.?
    Kipeen is a small stick; although being phased out by bigger sticks nowadays


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