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Mala or Marla!!!

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    #62
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Why was it called mala?

    It sounds like mála - meaning bag in Irish.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #63
    Ruu
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    Marla (Irish) is plasticine, many people pronounced it marla.


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    #64
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Worztron


    Ruu wrote: »
    Marla (Irish) is plasticine, many people pronounced it marla.

    Hi Ruu.

    Marla also means 'weakling'.

    I always remember calling it mala - pronounced something like MAW-LA.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #65
    demanufactured
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    Maula


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    #66
    Worztron
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    demanufactured wrote: »
    Maula

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maula

    ;)

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #67
    2ndcoming
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    I always called it mawla. I had cousins from south Dublin who said it like moorla but I just put it down to their usual Billy Barry way of talking! :pac:


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    #68
    thesandeman
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    I love it when a random query on Boards still hasn't been resolved 7 years later.

    Anyways, my contribution. Wiki tells me that plasticine is 'malleable' (which apparently means can be stretched or shaped) so I'm thinking that somehow/somewhere/somewhen that's where the word Mála/Marla originated.

    For the record, I always called it Mála and I used to chew it instead of gum and put it back in the box when I was finished.


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    #69
    Kratose
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Kratose


    Marla....defo...in irish english dictionary. ..my cats name marla


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    #70
    richie231069
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    https://translate.google.ie/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/ga/plasticine

    I used to call it Mala but I was wrong seemingly according to the almighty overlord GOOGLE it's Marla.


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    #71
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,475 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    rainbowtrout wrote: »
    marla. it must have been a department directive for junior infants to play with marla for a certain amount of time per day:pac:

    if we were good we got to choose a lump out of a biscuit tin and maybe got about 15 minutes to play with it. most of it was green and there were a few coveted lumps of red and blue.... the simple pleasures...
    It's great for developing fine motor skills, it's still used today, but now with fancy mats. Still ends up as one brown coloured hard lump though.


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    #72
    byhookorbycrook
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    salamander27 wrote: »
    Was just about to say that. I made that mistake when i was in high infant or first class. Teacher asks me "Taispeain dom an Mála?" I go to the press to get the Marla! Never made that mistake again! Still scarred 26 years later! :D

    Speaking of irish, did anyone else ever do "Buntús" where comic style irish stories were shown on the projector?
    You're only a young wan. I'm of an age where we had cardboard cut outs with sandpaper on the back so it would stick to a black nylon covered board.


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    #73
    EugenesDIYDen
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    I thought "mala" was a bag? Or maybe that was "mála" with a fada? They just discovered recently that mala was invented in the Pleistocene Epoch. That's how it got its name.


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    #74
    Worztron
    Registered Users Posts: 8,666 ✭✭✭Worztron


    EugenesDIYDen wrote: »
    I thought "mala" was a bag? Or maybe that was "mála" with a fada? They just discovered recently that mala was invented in the Pleistocene Epoch. That's how it got its name.

    Yes, 'mala' with a fada is the Irish for bag/satchel. For some odd reason whenever I post Irish words here - not all the letters show up.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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    #75
    MikeRyan87
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    It's flipping Marla



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