The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #77536   Message #1383245
Posted By: Den
20-Jan-05 - 11:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Spake Norn Iron
Subject: BS: Spake Norn Iron
I was listening to the Gerry Anderson show on Radio Ulster and if you haven't tuned into this show its worth a listen. They discuss everything from music to the breading potential of buck goats. Anyway there was a guy on from the Beeb talkin' about a new survey they are currently conducting where you would log in here and list words or coloquialisms that are mostly unique to your part of the Islands. There are quite a few that I have heard and used growing up in Norn Iron that seem to be unique but maybe aren't. It would be nice to know some of the origins, if any. Here are some to get us going.
Glipe    usually used as an insult
Clipe    as in pieces of meat or slices
Gulpin   ignoramous
Quare    Queer but usually used as a positive as in quare craic
Slabber slobber? used as insult
Ganzee   not sure of the spelling but I think it may mean sweater in
         Irish

Red      As in tidy or clean
While on holiday from Uni. I worked on a building site and I remember this guy asking the foreman how he would spell redin'. The foreman said, "what do you mean," and the guy said, "I was fillin' out me time sheet and I speant an hour redin' up so I wanted to know how you spelt it".

There are many many more but I'll throw it open. Bring em on.