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Thread #6457   Message #37723
Posted By: alison
10-Sep-98 - 12:26 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: I Am a Youth That's Inclined to Ramble
Subject: RE: Words to song sung by Paul Brady
Hi,

Speaking as someone who has the Ulster accent I've never said "cliddery ba' in my life! But having worked with people from Ballymena (and further North)it's perfectly believable. They have a lot of strange words up there. Many of them wonderfully descriptive.

I looked it up in my "dialect Heritage of North Ulster book" a wonderful little book put together by school kids the nearest it came to "clidder" was "clod" meaning to throw,

Slainte

alison