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?"

I know one my Irish inLaws use all the time that had me baffled.

‘Lads’ to mean a group of young people male and female. Whereas, lads was always a male term for me.

A buggy is a pushchair. Lads is a catch all term for young people. I also never realised our seasons are different times to the UK .

I'm from SE and have used buggy all my adult life, it used to be a pushchair when I was a child myself.

I know hot press, taytos and messages.
I had a lot of Irish friends though and learnt a lot from them.)

What about the chipper, for chippy/chip shop? and sweeping brush instead of broom.

Oh and saying ye's for plural you.

Ey lads, how's she cuttin'? Tis quare mild out. Anyone for a few scoops?

Ye's/Yous is more of a Dublin/east coast thing. The rest of Ireland just uses ye as plural for you.

Quare is a great term. Only ever heard it in Wexford. Forgot about brush instead of broom.
I do find the Irish/Scottish/Welsh are more sweary than English people.

I think chipper is Dublin as well. We say chippy in the West.

Quare is used in Co Antrim. Like when your
teenager decides that they desperately need a pair of £150 trainers. 'You're a quare geg, who's going to pay for those?'.

Or alternatively 'it was quare an' cold last night, the car was all iced up this morning!'

Most of these 'Irish' terms are also known in Scotland. Words that Irish people think are Irish are often, when not shared with Scotland, from northern England or other English regions that have no cultural profile because England's media and cultural profile is projected from a narrow and unrepresentative centre in London. 'Craic', for instance, is an regional dialect word from England. Whenever you look at maps of word distributions in Britain and Ireland they never have 'Ireland' only or 'Britain' only patterns. The OP's belief that there are systematic differences and unities that contrast 'UK English' with 'Irish English' is based on nationalism and lack of knowledge of the UK, & misguided in linguistic terms.

@ronatheseal, there's always one. Lighten up and have a bit of craic a stor

"Quare" in the SE (not just Wexford) means "very", as does "fierce" so we'd say "twas quare cault this mornin', but tis fierce mild now".

I don't mind being the one

@ronatheseal I think considering the amount of threads explaining NI to English people on here (especially with the DUP) lack of knowledge of the UK is a problem for UK residents too.
But sure we won't open up that can of worms of linguistics, the haims yer ancestors made of Irish. Scarleh for yer mas ma.

I thought quare was a version of queer.

Peculiar, unexpected, out of the ordinary.

'The quare fella'.

Can be used for strange or very.
Hooer is another great word. He's a hooer for the drink.

"Massive" in Dublin doesn't mean very large, it means really good. "That's bleedin' massive so it is"

Another one which always confuses my poor English co worker - cute hoor/hoar. Nothing to do with being a whore but it means a crafty conniving person who is always on the make.

Jimmy is a feckin cute hoor

@ShiveringCoyote Yes, knowledge levels all around need to improve. BTW, if I am not Irish as you believe, explain to me how people moving to Ireland are my ancestors? That's confusing. Aren't they the ancestors of modern Irish people?

The best one though is Mickey. Primark/penny’s were selling I love Mickey t-shirts a while ago with some Mickey Mouse ears on them. Mickey is penis in slang Irish so every time I see some with Mickey friends or Mickey fun it cracks me up. Mickey for ever!!!!

I assumed you were not Irish sorry if I got that wrong. No people being given land that was taken from native people are not necessarily the ancestors of modern Irish people.
Relax yer kacks will ya.

Love all the Mickey love in Penney's. If someone compliments you it's customary to say Thanks, Penney's Hun.

@ShiveringCoyote, who doesn't love a bit of Mickey?! Mouse ;)

I have knickers with I heart Mickey on them. I save them for when I'll get the shift or a ride.

I want those knickers.