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In Scotland Wales and Ireland (UK bit)

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 10/09/2016 07:55

Is it more common to have a very scottish Welsh Irish name or a more English easily pronouncible one in a say a class of kids?
Does this depend on areas eg close to borders are more anglicised? Or just those with english connections (family possible moves etc)
There are so many names that are so beautiful that I'd never heard of before reading them on here but theyre almost never pronounced how I expected Grin

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 13/09/2016 07:46

F word and t word?

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Amalfimamma · 12/09/2016 23:56

Themuns is a term of the used to describe catholics by the brightest of the bunch within the Orange Order. But it doesn't take long for the F word to be bandied about. Or worse still the T word 😒

Kr1stina · 12/09/2016 23:46

As opposed to " playing for the other team " which means something totally different Grin

FrancisCrawford · 12/09/2016 23:45

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Stevefromstevenage · 12/09/2016 23:43

Francis, there was I trying to be offensive Grin

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Amalfimamma · 12/09/2016 22:40

Stevefromstevenage

I didn't even notice that mistake........it is late

Stevefromstevenage · 12/09/2016 22:38

Cannot, I cannot get the terminology right Grin jeez its late.

Amalfimamma · 12/09/2016 22:36

Stevefromstevenage

I make a useless bigot I can even get the terminology correct.

You'd be at home in the OO Steve Grin

Stevefromstevenage · 12/09/2016 22:34

Ooops DH just corrected me it is kicks with the other foot. Blush I make a useless bigot I can even get the terminology correct. Soz about that.

Stevefromstevenage · 12/09/2016 22:31

Francis here to kick with the left foot means being a Protestant. I imagine it is whichever is the more unusual where you are like being left footed is less common.

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MrsJayy · 12/09/2016 21:50

Right footer means Protestant (unionist)

MrsJayy · 12/09/2016 21:48

Left footer means Roman Catholic it's. A sectarian term

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 12/09/2016 21:45

What does the foot thing mean?

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 12/09/2016 21:45

I've never heard of any of those things!

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MrsJayy · 12/09/2016 20:33

Tonne of Ranger s pubs in Benidorm doesn't surprise me there is an orange walk my dad goes to the pubs

Amalfimamma · 12/09/2016 20:32

FrancisCrawford

I've been here 20 years and when people ask me where I'm from and I tell them I'm Irish their next question is "Dublin or Belfast?" When I say the 6 counties they hold no qualms in asking "What foot do you kick with" Hmm

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 12/09/2016 17:03

OK going to read more about that!

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squoosh · 12/09/2016 16:56

After their No. 1 pin up boy William of Orange.

treaclesoda · 12/09/2016 16:55

Orange is from William of Orange. Smile

i8E314 · 12/09/2016 16:41

Yeh i had thought black irish meant people who lookedd more spanish than irish.
i hadnt known that the americans actually formalised their discrimination!

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JazzAnnNonMouse · 12/09/2016 16:38

It is a really hard accent to try and do. In general when people 'do' an Irish accent they do the sing song oh to be sure to be sure thing. The NI accent is v different and I don't think many people attempt it as much.

Thank you for telling me about the orange thing. (Any idea as to why it's orange? )
I'm going to Google it tonight when I've got time to read more about it. I also don't know enough about the penal system thing.

I love languages and trends/what influences how a set of people change.

I'd also only heard the term black Irish in passing and assumed that it was a literal description ie someone who was black and Irish...!

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