Following on from the scallions thread . . . . .

[SrSteveOskowski]

Isn't the 'language' difference between Ireland and the UK amazing all the same? And I don't mean the literal language, ie: speaking Irish instead of Welsh, English etc.
More that although we're all speaking English, it can be so different.

For example (I'm Irish) would I confuse people in the UK if I started talking about buggies, minerals, rashers, taytos, the messages and the hot press to name but a few?

How many of you would know what all these things are, or would you just think "What on earth is she on about?"

@Minkies11

My Irish mum calls potatoes 'praties' but I have no idea where that comes from .

The Irish for potatoes is prataí (pronounced prawth-ee) so I imagine it comes from that. Where I'm from, potatoes were called poppies or pops.

Off-licences have been referred to as Wine Lodge ... (like that's all they sell...)

I hate 'wee' in front of everything. Grr.

I love the description of someone having a face like a lurgan spade (long)

Did anyone ever hear "Lend us your face 'til I haunt a house...?"

I thought wine lodge was the actual name of chain of off licenses? Was it not?

Sorry should have explained. Getting a carry out would be going to the off licence and getting some booze with the aim of taking back to a friend’s house to drink. (Did I just do the take/being thing?).

Carry out can also mean a food takeaway. Often pronounced like ‘kerry-oot’.

Piece box is lunch box/packed lunch. A piece is a sandwich.

Sorry, typo. Take/bring thing.

Getting a poke from the poke man. Ice cream.

Our blade. Little brother/sister

Round the very Scottish influenced parts of N Ireland I don't think you hear scundered but you do hear scunnered.

I think in Belfast scundered means embarrassed? But scunnered is totally different, it's fed up. Like 'Away out of my sight, I'm scunnered lookin' at ye' when you've had an argument with someone.

Oh yes. I’ve had plenty a carry out in my time. To be consumed on the swings while your mammy thinks your at Gemma’s and Gemma’s mammy thinks she’s at yours. But you’ll both make it to mass in the morning to see if we look as bad as everyone else that was swallin’ the night before too

Might be ... never thought of that!

I say off-licence to get a carry out... used to have friends round for a carry out before heading to the Bot or Limelight...

Pre-drinks I think it's called now. Am ancient.

Where I am it was scundered for both meanings- bored and embarrassed. Embarrassed also known as taking a redner.

ilove got caught using that story more than once!!!

Yep. Didn’t stop us trying it again the next week though

I'm from west of Ireland and we ' get the messages' and put them in the press, have a couch in the sitting room, we do our lessons after school, if something is awful it's ' cat malojen', she's mighty craic so she is.,...we put on the big light in the sitting room, put the clothes on the line out the back then into the hot press to air....

I call these daps (I'm from SW England) .

They’re PE shoes for me.

Gutties are just normal trainers.

They’re PE shoes for me.

Gutties are just normal trainers

Weirdly I'm the opposite. Those are gutties to me and trainers are trainers. It was always white gutties and black gutties, nothing else. Synonymous with GB and BB uniforms!

Does anyone else use "you driv past the post office and it's the next turning" instead of drive past?

I'm English but mad Irish family, so know all the rashers/messages/hot press etc👍🏻

We would call someone a “dirty clart” or “lazy clart” if they left stuff at their arse.

Have also “driv” past things too

There's a lot of these I'm familiar with - not sure if it's a NW thing or particular to my family? My great granny was Irish.

Oh my, I’d forgotten about the scaffies and the scaffy cart.

Writing forgotten makes me think of gotten and I use that a lot. I get so cross when someone posts that it’s an Americanism. Oh, hasn’t wee Jeanie gotten big!

I had no idea what everyone was talking about with "scundered", scunnered where I'm from for fed up. And embarrassed would be taking a beamer.

Everything is juice, no matter what kind it is, my dad still says ginger.

"ken" for "I know", always wondered how wide spread that one is.