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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I’m a dublin man and a very proud one at that.
The other day I was talking and I used the phrase “we do be though don’t’n’t we not”
Some dublin snob, probably a west Brit pulled me up on it and started slagging the way I speak so I gave her a box in the jaw.
Is there any other unique and regional things other fabbers say that only your kind of people say and understand? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would"
That's not dialect as such though, just an inability to be upfront, pretty sure that's a nationwide characteristic  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would
That's not dialect as such though, just an inability to be upfront, pretty sure that's a nationwide characteristic "
It is ya  |
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By *oserMan
over a year ago
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"I'll bleedin reef ya was a popular one where I grew up in Dublin.
It means I'll pull your head clean off  "
Which in turn ment, I'm not amused by your carry on and may have to hit you |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'll bleedin reef ya was a popular one where I grew up in Dublin.
It means I'll pull your head clean off
Which in turn ment, I'm not amused by your carry on and may have to hit you "
Ah the good old days  |
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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago
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"Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would
That's not dialect as such though, just an inability to be upfront, pretty sure that's a nationwide characteristic "
It's particularly prominent with Corkonians though, you get all these 'I might come, I might not' or 'if the weather is good I might have a cup of tea'. Straight conclusive answers are not their strength. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would
That's not dialect as such though, just an inability to be upfront, pretty sure that's a nationwide characteristic
It's particularly prominent with Corkonians though, you get all these 'I might come, I might not' or 'if the weather is good I might have a cup of tea'. Straight conclusive answers are not their strength. "
Again, I'd have to doubt that it's any different elsewhere. Perhaps I need to travel to Cork for some in-depth research on the locals  |
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There is no "yeah" or "no" in Irish, so you repeat the question back to say yes or no. "I will, I do, I am, I can" for yes, and "I wont, I don't, I am not, I can not" for no.
We are the least common people in the world to say "yes" or "no", and that results in a sarcastic "yes" being "I will yeah".
It's like "does be/do be" is a tense in irish but not in English. "He does be going mad", people outside ireland dont really understand that.
Also I think its universal in Ireland but "gives out", as in "I was giving out to the children".. my english friends dont understand that. |
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By *P_80Man
over a year ago
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We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy."
You've just reminded me of something I haven't heard in decades "cat melodeon" - anyone familiar with this? |
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By *j47Man
over a year ago
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"We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy.
You've just reminded me of something I haven't heard in decades "cat melodeon" - anyone familiar with this?"
Oh jayus think i may have used that a few times |
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By *P_80Man
over a year ago
Waterford |
"We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy.
You've just reminded me of something I haven't heard in decades "cat melodeon" - anyone familiar with this?"
Cat is bad, cat malogen is wicked bad altogether |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy.
You've just reminded me of something I haven't heard in decades "cat melodeon" - anyone familiar with this?
Oh jayus think i may have used that a few times "
Ah yeah, but sure you're fabs resident seanchai |
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By *ohng69Man
over a year ago
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"We have a few in Waterford alright
A shellakybooky is a snail, but I've also heard the word used to refer to someone who is scared.
Cant is a word we use if someone looses a football by kicking it too hard (He canted the ball).
If something is bad we say it's cat.
If you stand in front of somebody watching the tele they might ask you, "Were you made in the glass factory?"
And of course we say 'boy' or 'girl' at the end of every sentence boy.
You've just reminded me of something I haven't heard in decades "cat melodeon" - anyone familiar with this?
Cat is bad, cat malogen is wicked bad altogether "
It was cat when the dog died |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Cork is famous for people saying "I will ya" meaning I wont.....
I have taken this to heart and assume the 47 women who told me the would not fuck me yesterday ment yes of course they would
That's not dialect as such though, just an inability to be upfront, pretty sure that's a nationwide characteristic
It's particularly prominent with Corkonians though, you get all these 'I might come, I might not' or 'if the weather is good I might have a cup of tea'. Straight conclusive answers are not their strength. "
How would they not know if they were going to come or not?  |
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I love language, and accents and dialects are wonderfully expressive and varied from one place to the next...
But even I struggle to understand the Wexford town accent! Combine it with an idiosyncratic dialect and you may as well be in another country 
Areet der sahhhn? = Hello chum
Quare deadly = rather good
A hape = An unknown quantity
A haaaaaaape = a larger unknown quantity
Yerwan/yerman = him/her over there
Ate = eat something or rebuke someone
Oh.. And every question ends with 'eh'
Did ya ride yerwan eh?
Do ya want salt on yer chips eh?
Are ya goin to ate that eh?
Did yer ma ate ya for taken dat hape a cans eh?
And let's not forget that everyone is called 'hun'  |
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By *ohng69Man
over a year ago
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"I love language, and accents and dialects are wonderfully expressive and varied from one place to the next...
But even I struggle to understand the Wexford town accent! Combine it with an idiosyncratic dialect and you may as well be in another country
Areet der sahhhn? = Hello chum
Quare deadly = rather good
A hape = An unknown quantity
A haaaaaaape = a larger unknown quantity
Yerwan/yerman = him/her over there
Ate = eat something or rebuke someone
Oh.. And every question ends with 'eh'
Did ya ride yerwan eh?
Do ya want salt on yer chips eh?
Are ya goin to ate that eh?
Did yer ma ate ya for taken dat hape a cans eh?
And let's not forget that everyone is called 'hun' "
I work with someone from wexford and she finishes every sentence with an eh,making it sound like a question |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I work with a lot of lads from up north and will literally spend the day doubled up with the quick one liner sayings
The oul' blade (mother)
The oul' doll (wife/gf)
Talkin' dung (talking shite)
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