Blog: acediscovery

Hiberno-English and Irish words

As it was St Patrick's Day last week, many of my recent conversations have been about Ireland and Irish-ness, with accent nearly always the most popular subject. I was reminded of a print out I had with 22 examples of Hiberno-Irish dialect - and while I agree with most of the examples, some are very 'stage leprauchan'. The examples are: 1. Is it Commerce he's studying in College? 2. Peter asked John was he at the match on Sunday and did he see Sheila there. 3. They spoiled her as a child and she's [...]