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Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 7:21 pm on 09/04/2014
Tags: English, , Irish, meanings, phrases, words   

Irish Words

Hello friends. I’ve been living in Ireland a few months now, and since I’ve been here, I’ve learned a few strange words or phrases that might have some weird meaning that English people aren’t used to. So I’m going to list the ones i can think of right now and add any that occur to me later. Here we go:

That’s gas: That’s funny
Deadly: Awesome or cool
Your man/woman: A man or woman that is the subject of a conversation
Runners: Trainers (Sneakers in America)

Press: Cupboard 
Hot press: Airing cupboard. This:

Black: Busy. Example “it’s black on the beach during the summer”
Skanger: Chav
Roar: shout
Giving out: having a go
Lashing: raining
Chipper: chippie (chip shop)
Scarlet: red faced, usually with embarrassment
Lashing: raining
Now in a sec/,ow in a minute: neither now, in a second, or in a minute. Usually in a few minutes, if you’re lucky
Wrecking my head: annoying me
Kip: mess 
That’s all I can think of for now. I’ll add more at a later date as they come to me. I’ll try not to leave it as long between blog posts. It’s just a quick one to show you all I’m not dead.
Unknown's avatar Michael Collins 2:06 pm on 18/11/2012
Tags: English, language,   

Language

Hello my little monkeys. I  don’t know what I’m actually going to blog about, I’m just winging it. I just thought it was time I did one, so hi.
 
Right now I’m at work, as usual it’s quiet. Since I don’t know what I’m blogging about, I haven’t put anything for a title. Obviously by the time you read this, there will be one. Ooh I know what to blog about. Let’s talk about English.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to the talk about the differences hetween “who” and “whom”. Mostly because even I don’t know the difference. What I want to talk about is when people say things like “u r” instead of “you are”. Or worse yet, “yhhuuu areee”. Them are just  a few examples.

There was a time when typing like that was an advantage. When you was limited to 160 characters when texting. But now people usually get a lot or even  unlimited texts, making typing like that obsolete. But it’s still common nowadays, even on chat sites and apps like WhatsApp or whatever, with no character limit. It makes people look retarded. People don’t see that. at least not the people that type like that. It doesn’t even help people type quicker usually. It usually takes me longer to work out how to shorten words than it would be to type them out properly.

Also, Black Country people (the Black Country is an area west of Birmingham), especially Wolverhampton people. They say things like “Where am ya?”. That just annoys me. There’s just no point.

Black Country Map

Anyway, I think that’s all i wanna talk about. Like I said, it was a spur of the moment thing, I just had an urge to do a blog, and I didn’t know what about. So job done. Unil next time, chums!