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Things said in Ireland that no one says in England

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  • #92
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    pickarooney wrote: »
    No, it's marla (no fada). Mála means a bag.
    Mala is also Mallow town in Irish.


  • #93
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    A lot of things my girlfriend's family says which I don't know whether it is an Irish thing or just them...

    'Higher it up' (the TV)
    'Bring that upstairs with you' (Is there a difference between bring and take in Ireland?)
    'Billy Jo-Well' (I've actually heard radio presenters call Billy Joel this....weird :D)


  • #94
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Thanks a million. Most non-Irish have never heard this expression or what it means.
    I'm gonna guess that comes from 'grazie mille' which means a thousand thanks...but 'mille' sounds like a million.


  • #95
    VirginPrune
    Registered Users Posts: 12 ✭VirginPrune


    The charming expression "I will in me brown" seems to be peculiarly Irish.


  • #96
    flipsat
    Registered Users Posts: 137 ✭✭flipsat


    In England when someone is annoyed or cross with you they "tell you off"
    In Ireland they "give out to you".

    In England: pigs trotters
    In Ireland: crubeens


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  • #97
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Basil3 wrote: »
    A lot of things my girlfriend's family says which I don't know whether it is an Irish thing or just them...

    'Higher it up' (the TV)
    'Bring that upstairs with you' (Is there a difference between bring and take in Ireland?)
    'Billy Jo-Well' (I've actually heard radio presenters call Billy Joel this....weird :D)
    I remember being perplexed , as a young fella, by my older sisters saying "looor it down"...


  • #98
    KungPao
    Registered Users Posts: 4,781 ✭✭✭KungPao


    flipsat wrote: »
    In England when someone is annoyed or cross with you they "tell you off"
    In Ireland they "give out to you".

    In England: pigs trotters
    In Ireland: crubeens
    Both are pretty well-heard to me...(Dubliner).

    Crubeens...no idea what you're on abaaaawt!


  • #99
    LordSutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,078 ✭✭✭✭LordSutch


    Irish person: while you're in Tesco get me a brown pan.
    English person: Why brown? I thought most pans were black?

    Irish person: I slept it out.
    English person: Pray tell, what did you sleep out?

    Irish person: The towels are in the press sine last night.
    English person: ****, I hope its turned off.

    Irish person: I'm after leaving the door open.
    English person: What? before you closed it?

    Irish person: I'll just be a couple of minutes.
    English person: Its been five minutes and they're stil not back :cool:

    Irish person: I really fancy a juicy Sambo tonight.
    English person: Shock, just total & shock disbelief :D


  • #100
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    England : Stoat.
    Ireland : Weasel

    England : Weasel
    Ireland : nothing ( doesn't exist here.)


  • #101
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    England : Gorse
    Scotland : Whins.
    Ireland : Furze.


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  • #102
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    lulu1 wrote: »
    Did anyone ever notice when they go to stay with friends/family in england that they would drink tea all day and nothing to eat with it..

    Much the same as we drink other stuff :D


  • #103
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I'm Irish and around a long time I've never heard of a pencil parer called a topper.

    It was common decades ago. Last time I heard it most of you weren't born.


  • #104
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Runners/takkies for trainers..and pants for trousers

    Pants in USA too. Linguistically we're kind of halfway between England and America.
    I believe takkies is originally South African, and began its Irish life in Limerick about 40 years ago.


  • #105
    Jumboman
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Jumboman


    We say Garda.

    They say Old Bill.


  • #106
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    I remember a colleague of mine in London shouting "Call the Guards!" because someone had just broken into our office.

    My English and American coworkers thought she was doing an impression of Queenie from Black Adder or thought she was a mediaeval monarch of some sort.

    Guards: seize him!!!

    Plenty of English colloquialisms that leave Irish and Americans completely befuddled too though. It works both ways.


  • #107
    Bepolite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    aaronc182 wrote: »
    going to the shop to get the messages,

    think this is an irish thing

    That's a Scottish term, I think I heard it here once or twice in 10 years, in Scotland it would be common parlance, usually amongst older people.


  • #108
    Afroshack
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭Afroshack


    The way we pronounce the letter 'R'


    We say 'urrr'
    They say 'ahhhh'

    They've also never heard of chicken fillet rolls.


  • #109
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    KungPao wrote: »
    I'm gonna guess that comes from 'grazie mille' which means a thousand thanks...but 'mille' sounds like a million.

    Never heard Go raibh mille maith agat then? Infinitely more likely it came from Irish than Italian. ;)


  • #110
    [Deleted User]
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    tac foley wrote: »
    That is a Northern way of speaking, typically Yorkshire/Lancashire people who are not as well educated as they might be.

    tac

    What????!!!!
    Most of my extremely well educated Yorkshire family would disagree.

    Cheek!!


  • #111
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    This is probably more about pronounciation but for the first few weeks when we moved people would say:

    "The midges are out"
    "Look out for the midges"
    "Feckin midges"

    Meaning the horrible little flies that swarm and bite at certain times of the year.

    But what I heard was:

    "The midgets are out"
    "Look out for the midgets"
    "Feckin midgets"

    It caused my wife considerable amusement when I asked what everyone had against dwarves, and how come I hadn't seen any.


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  • #112
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,059 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Mala is also Mallow town in Irish.

    No. Mala, the town, has no fada. Different sound and spelling.


  • #113
    Floody Boreland
    Registered Users Posts: 222 ✭✭Floody Boreland


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    I'm Irish and around a long time I've never heard of a pencil parer called a topper.

    Never heard a pointer called either of these misnomers before:p


  • #114
    Not2Good
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Not2Good


    Now you're suckin' diesel (heard down in Waterford)


  • #115
    Not2Good
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Not2Good


    Don't ask me what it means!!!! But heard lots of people saying it! And I wasn't at a tractor show's exhibition on fuel siphoning ...


  • #116
    Not2Good
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Not2Good


    "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)


  • #117
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Not2Good wrote: »
    Don't ask me what it means!!!! But heard lots of people saying it! And I wasn't at a tractor show's exhibition on fuel siphoning ...

    Sucking diesel means things are going great and better then expected. Like a carpenter started a two day job but everything is flying along and he might get done in half the time :)


  • #118
    Not2Good
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Not2Good


    Excellent, thanks ……. so they were being nice to me ….


  • #119
    AnLonDubh
    Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭AnLonDubh


    pickarooney wrote: »
    No, it's marla (no fada). Mála means a bag.
    Just to say Márla is a perfectly valid spelling and the traditional one. It is pronounced with a fada in most of the dialects, but not in Clare Irish (on which the standard is based), or types of Conamara Irish.


  • #120
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    In Ireland : ya complete looodermawn.

    In England : you moron.


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  • #121
    Bepolite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭Bepolite


    You Langer.


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