Comhrá - the general chat thread

[JaneJeffer]

Hi Craicnetters!

I was looking for the other thread and see it's fallen way down the list so I decided to make a new one for all our daily musings ☘️

I have heard that - I'm not sure whether it represents a grammatical nuance absent in Anglo-English but that seems possible.

I have a friend from Longford who bath-ed her kids. She likes to wear a pants. The plural is pantses.
She is a primary teacher. I imagine it is some hiberno English thing?

I'd say bless-ed and belov-ed but I can't think of any others.

I'm not a Peig fan, don't know where that came from!

I think it may be a feature of speech in Dublin drspouse! To me, it suggests a Dublin accent. I might say 'bless-ed' or 'belove-ed'.

Just leaving a sorrowful picture of Peig for Jane :)* *

Blessed and beloved sound like King James bible words withe the ed pronunciation. Learned asin learned gentleman. But they are adjective type words.hmmmm.

That's cheered me right up Fuzzy

Yes. Is it a liturgical matter?

Lol Jane. Either Peig is sad that you do not like her or she has run out of tobacco.

She'll be grand in a minute when she remembers that anything bad that happens is the will of God so therefore it's all A-okay

Blessed are the meek.

Brian Blessed.

Well this has made me 😂😂

In England I'd expect bless-ed, belov-ed or learn-ed but not breath-ed or anything like that. It was verbs (he breath-ed softly) not adjectives (it was a paint-ed chair) that I noticed.

I think Marian hams it up a bit sometimes!

I forgot about learn-ed, so belov-ed of bless-ed school debates

Us Dubs like two syllables instead of one - fow-ind for found, wow-ind for wound [as in wound up] so I supposed bless-ed instead of blessed ticks that box
It's also true that Hiberno-English still uses forms and pronunciations of words that have gone out of date in English-English - e.g.'press' for cupboard used to be standard in E-E, and they still have hot presses over there.

Da Floo-ez-y in da jacoo-ez-y being an example. And that fine scientific institution, the azoo.

Defin I tlee as some Irish people pronounce definitely - 🙄

Where do we stand on the Catholic press and Protestant cupboard debate?
My toaster...it is a Protestant toaster...doesn't get put away. My friend keeps her toaster in a cupboard in the utility room.

My toaster gets put away - I hate crumbs but my Mum's is on the countertop.
We're both Catholics.

My catholic toaster doesn't get put away because there's nowhere to put it.

I have to put my blender away because I hate my blender.
My microwave lives in a little lift up flap place. My kids and their mates reckon the kitchen people knew it was protestant microwave. The kitchen was made in Portadown which is very loyalist.
I spent last week in the North eating wee traybakes. I love wee traybakes. Especially the peppermint aero one.

oooh yes you can't beat a good traybake - and the protestant ones are next-level 😁

My OH is a Southerner and he detests most of our Northern traybakes; neither does he like potato farls, soda bread, wheaten bread or (the ever present in NI cafes) coleslaw - he’s a lost cause that man 😂 He doesn’t even like Fifteens - I despise coconut but even I love Fifteens 🤷‍♀️

"Press" is a cupboard in Scotland too. I owned a flat in Scotland for a while and it had several presses (described as such in the EA brochure) and an amazing contraption for washing the outside of windows where the sash window reconfigurated and swung into the room.