(BRIS) How to speak English like the Irish.... Rather than rely on “to have just done” for a recently completed action, we would say “to be after doing”. I’m after finding a euro on the road! You’re after stepping in dog sh*t! Are you coming? I amn’t. A single word for both singular and plural you?? What were yee thinking?? We can say yee, yez, or even yous (depending on the part of the country). Story? or What’s the story? Is a translation of the Irish Aon scéal? / Cad é an scéal? – where “story” means “news”, i.e. What’s going on? / What’s up? Usually used as a greeting. The more rural of us prefer “How’s she cuttin?” (‘she’ being used in Ireland more than in other places for inanimate objects). To give out has nothing to do with distributing leaflets. This is from the Irish tabhairt amach and means to complain. This is another one that Irish people are always surprised to hear isn’t international!! Your (yer) man is a nice avoidance technique for not using someone’s name. It is usually clear from the context who you’re taking about, and the “your” definitely can’t be taken literally, he may have no connection whatsoever to you and even be a complete stranger (although close friend is just as likely). Your (yer) one (wan) is for women. Yoke is a synonym for “thing” and usually refers to something that we may not be too familiar with and not know the actual name of. Think of thingamajig/watchamacallit, although it’s used way more often. There are a host of other words like Deadly, Desperate, Fair Play, Gas, Press, Shift that you may think you know the meaning of, but we would use them for things that are completely different, unrelated and unexpected. Fair play to ya! You shifted your one, that was deadly! – The turnout was desperate last night. – I went to the press and found the yoke I had been looking for! … That’s gas! To us Irish, a film is pronounced fill-um. The Irish name Colm has two syllables. Tuesday is Chooseday, a tube is a choob, and ‘due’ and ‘jew’ are pronounced the same. What else can be added to this list?
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 03:41:26 +0000
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