Most annoying words

Started by seafoid, December 27, 2012, 10:40:12 PM

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Hardy

'Railway Cup'

This is the worst competition in football history, yet the Ulster people still try and romanticise it. Forget it, it is shite.

Hardy

Y'know.
Or the Dublin version: Y'knowarrimeyan.
Or the Donegal/wider Ulster version: And stuff like that there.

ziggysego

"I only think of you as a friend..."
Testing Accessibility

ONeill

I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

illdecide

I can swim a little but i can't fly an inch

illdecide

Tyrone and Derry ones saying "wan"
I can swim a little but i can't fly an inch


muppet

MWWSI 2017

seafoid

Entitlements instead of government spending .
Death tax instead of inheritance tax .
Adjustment programme instead of internal devaluation where wages are driven down.

seafoid

Gah as in do yiz play gah down the country?
Hurley as in do yiz play hurley down the country?
Bluestocking as used in the irish times property section.

NetNitrate

Phat

I can understand Irish people having difficulty with some words and so dat, dem and dere are okay because our ancestors used the Irish way of pronouncing th and we inherited that. But why is 'what' so difficult to pronounce, why is someone always coming late for a match and asking 'phat's de score?' 'Phat's left in it?' Phat's de ref at at all?'

Orior

Quote from: Hardy on January 06, 2013, 01:06:37 PM
Y'know.
Or the Dublin version: Y'knowarrimeyan.
Or the Donegal/wider Ulster version: And stuff like that there.

Donegal wans always say 'and stuff like dat der'
Cover me in chocolate and feed me to the lesbians

Hardy

Quote from: NetNitrate on January 06, 2013, 06:57:03 PM
Phat

I can understand Irish people having difficulty with some words and so dat, dem and dere are okay because our ancestors used the Irish way of pronouncing th and we inherited that. But why is 'what' so difficult to pronounce, why is someone always coming late for a match and asking 'phat's de score?' 'Phat's left in it?' Phat's de ref at at all?'

I'd say it's for the same reason as you pointed out for dat, dem, etc. There is no 'w' in Irish, so Irish people speaking English for the first time rendered 'w' as 'bhu' ('well' = 'bhuel') and 'wh' as 'phu' ('what' = 'phuat'). 

From the Bunker

This probably has been covered, but here goes......

Three cheers for a gallant Mayo team, I sure they will be back next year or in the Future as AI Champions.   ;D


Arthur_Friend

Quote from: Never beat the deeler on January 06, 2013, 05:57:27 AM
Just read the thread and have been nodding in agreement with a lot of them.

Can't believe 'random' hasn't been mentioned.

'OMG, what a random night'
'Soooo  random!'

Major gear grinder

Agreed.

Also, I've heard chicks refer to people they've just met as 'Randomers'. f**k sake.