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Thread #95549 Message #1860325
Posted By: MartinRyan
16-Oct-06 - 10:32 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
Subject: RE: BS: Is Scots a Language or a Dialect?
There was a letter in yesterday's Irish Times from a puzzled Pole about Dubliners' use of the phrase "dig out", which has nothing to do with potatoes.
In the wake of Ireland's soccer defeat (5-2) by Cyprus a few days earlier, a taxi-driver remarked to the Pole that "The lads in the Irish dugout would need a digout before the fans were dug out of them!"