Irish in the UK - what are the things that it took you ages to realise people don't say here.

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Inspired by the thread about Pancake Tuesday.

That thread has cracked me up because SO many posters are insisting no one EVER calls pancake Tuesday - it's Pancake Day - and sayu it's weird and wanky to call it that. And then all the Irish people on the thread are like ' wait, we've always called it that and never noticed that no one else did.

So what else you got?

For me, and I'm here 20 years, I only found out about a year ago that no one here calls a birth certificate a 'birth cert'. My English husband thought it was proper weird that I kept saying that. I had never picked up that it wasn't a thing! I think Irish people are so used to talking about the Leaving Cert or Junior Cert etc. that the Cert but feels natural. DH says no.

What other ways have I been unknowingly embarrassing myself for 20 years?

@Mamette if you ever went to the Zoo Bar (later Renards) then I'm fairly sure we would have met each other 😂😂

Concise Ulster Dictionary seems to be available as a PDF through NI Museums here:

https://cms.nationalmuseumsni.org/sites/default/files/2022-10/Concise-Ulster-Dictionary-Letters-A-Z.pdf

GEE 😂😂😂 this wins

Gee bag = a person you don't like.

@mikado1 reminds me of one of my favourite jokes

Did ya hear Daniel O'Donnell got a girl in trouble?

Told her ma she was smoking

Reminds me of Eileen Ore Ulick Magee 😉

@Westfacing thats interesting because geansaí (pronounced gansy as you spelled) is the Irish word for jumper.

The Mikado biscuits!

I only know those as the partially chocolate covered sticks.

What were they elsewhere?

Mallows?

Kimberley, Mikado and Cooconut Creams, someone you love would love some mum!

Yes I think they've changed the name to jam mallows now

I've googled and they're still Mikado

Kimberleys and Coconut Creams

Happy Lent

I don't think I'll ever eat a Mikado again after hearing it called a fanny biscuit...because now that I think on it...anyway...happy Lent indeed.

They were a bit sickly sweet anyway. Although nicer than custard creams.

Can't beat a chocolate Kimberly 😋

I remember having these at birthday parties when I was little in the eighties in England. I don't think they were ever called Mikados here though and I haven't seen them in years.

Oh God, I must have eaten my own body weight in Mikado's as a child. We used to say Mick-a-doos in our house, because my dad seemed to find deliberately changing the pronunciation of things hilarious!

Fanny biscuits though😬🤣🤣

One of my SIL's grannies used to call them fancy fannies, if that is any more appetising.

No!!! 😂😱

my hubs English family wondering why I needed their pajama sizes for them to watch a tv show last visit … (Late late toy show night )
..one for everybody in the audience and roll it there Colette/Roisin were another source of confusion for visiting relatives
now your sucking diesel ( now your thinking acting getting something done )
he/she/ they would eat their dinner in the drawer ( mean person)
a ludder a flute, a header/head the ball, for idiot
all phone calls from an older relative starting with you’ll never guess whose dead .. followed by a description… ya do know them … married to yer one /yer man with the back …lives beside him/her with the head .. 2 doors down from the house with the gate … went to school with xyz drove the car with the scratch on the boot .., and yes I usually did understand the description 😂😂

And spent the week on the bog has a completely different meaning to my English co workers …. ( cutting turf for the fire or footing the cut turf )

I never heard of pencilled as a compliment, but I have heard the opposite, as in she looks a right sketch.

All this talk of Mikados, my ears are burning 😆

Fancy fannies has put me right off!

😂 🤯 😂

Mikados a very nice synonym for the gee I think. Brilliant biscuits too.