Norn Ironisms

not-so-civil

A-B

I'm just glad yer not "starvin".

Thriftylady

not-so-civil wrote:

A-B

I'm just glad yer not "starvin".

well, ye'd need tae get yer gansie on if ye were .....

bingo_bango

AB....just as a wee addon to this thread....any idea how many Norn Iron users there are? There seem to be quite few, but it'd be nice to know just how many active users there are?

sunshine

jellynose wrote:

Dictionary of Norn Iron sayings:

Ration -you'd be doing this if you were trying to get to somewhere in a hurry, in Ballymena

ROFL - years ago my gran asked her nephew in Ballymena if he had been fishing. He hadn't a clue what she was talking about - his mother had to interpret - "fashin son, have you been fashin."

This thread is class. I remember getting white gutties for school too. Girls got white ones, boys got black.

wishiwasarichgirl

what about "ye big gorb"

no one in suffolk has a baldie what i'm talkin about when i say that!

and joecool, i'm from dungannon and never heard of brose

arwen_2

Thriftylady wrote:

"I'm scunnered lookin' at ye ..."

scunnered seems to have a different meaning in Belfast. To me it means i'm fed up (nicest way of putting it!) but when i moved from Coleraine to Belfast most of my partners family think scunnered is being embarrassed lol. Clearly they have no idea!

Thriftylady

arwen wrote:

scunnered seems to have a different meaning in Belfast. To me it means i'm fed up (nicest way of putting it!) but when i moved from Coleraine to Belfast most of my partners family think scunnered is being embarrassed lol. Clearly they have no idea!

yeah, I noticed that in Jellynose's dictionary thing-y. I didn't know that!

When I lived in Belfast and said I was scunnered, people would have said ' don't you mean scundered?'. But I'm proud to be a culchie, so I stuck to my guns and told them that no, I knew perfectly well what I meant. It would certainly explain why people couldn't understand why I would be 'scunnered' with something which couldn't have been remotely embarassing.....and why I couldn't understand why they couldn't understand !

I find that at work its like the office sport, laughing at how I talk !! Theres not a day goes by when someone doesn't mention it, so of couse I exaggerate it all the more, using terms that my granny used to use, just to confuse them !

declanmcc

After makin a piece for me lunch I went a dander and fell inte a shoch and got covered in clabber and got scrabbed by briars --- a wile handling altogether -- left me in wile crabbit form all evening.

Turn to Ceefax P888 if yer lost

saraiain

Anybody know 'thran'. Magic Ballymena word meaning awkward .

Thriftylady

saraiain wrote:

Anybody know 'thran'. Magic Ballymena word meaning awkward .

oh yes, I love 'thran' , its so descriptive.

what about a 'schaghey' ? as in ' what did I have for dinner? I just threw in whatever was in the fridge and made a schaghey'

its un-spellable though - when I look at it written down, it doesn't look right. Maybe its styaghey.....