I'm not from Ireland so have no idea if this is a common thing or not. I recently became friends with an older Irish man and he has started referring to me as his "girlfriend" to other people, which naturally being English has freaked me out, as we wouldn't say that at all here would we?
He hasn't been living in the States, as I know it's very common over there.
Is it common parlance over in Ireland? From what I know, albeit vaguely, it isn't, but I could be wrong.
I'm feeling really creeped out as he's much, much older than me and there's been other stuff, but I shan't go into it all on here, for now.
Anyone Irish on here able to help me out|?