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Norn Ironisms
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this post has me totally scundered, its a tarragh.:TMo Money Mo Problems0
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Ahhh I wish I was home now, see what the big bad web does...Makes you hanker for the good old days. Going to the wee sweet shop and getting a quarter of COLA CUBES or maybe SHERBERT LEMONS...
What about a wee bag of GOLD DUST. What about WHOPPERS!!!
HIGHLAND TOFFEE ...wish me teeth could withstand a good old chew.
Missin you all whatever your creed.....ME mates ....ME brothers and sisters..Me countrymen....oh and women of course
Wat about yeeeeee
I have nothing better to do!!!!0 -
Another one for the dictionary:
Sham - person from Ballymoney0 -
aul rite mucker!!It's a great day for singing a song / It's a great day for moving along / It's a great day for morning to night / It's a great day for everybody's plight.
Your father pedals car telephones at a 300 percent markup. Your mother works on heavy commission at a camera store. Graduated to it from espresso machines. Hah!0 -
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!
Like jm_sam I've heard and used the variation, scundered. Like arwen though it means fed up as well.0 -
startrekker wrote:Ahhh I wish I was home now, see what the big bad web does...Makes you hanker for the good old days. Going to the wee sweet shop and getting a quarter of COLA CUBES or maybe SHERBERT LEMONS...
What about a wee bag of GOLD DUST. What about WHOPPERS!!!
HIGHLAND TOFFEE ...wish me teeth could withstand a good old chew.
Missin you all whatever your creed.....ME mates ....ME brothers and sisters..Me countrymen....oh and women of course
Wat about yeeeeee
You do know about http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/ , don't you?
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Anyone ever had "Gum-joo-acky"? Me ma used to come off with this one occasionally over the years and mentioned it to relatives from broughshane on Sunday who'd never heard of it. Don't know if it's a Norn Iron term or just a word someone's made up?0
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When Derry people get embarrassed they "take a reddener"0
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Wud ya quit cloddin stones!!It's a great day for singing a song / It's a great day for moving along / It's a great day for morning to night / It's a great day for everybody's plight.
Your father pedals car telephones at a 300 percent markup. Your mother works on heavy commission at a camera store. Graduated to it from espresso machines. Hah!0 -
Jellynose, that was the funniest thing I ever read!! Am laughing out loud while my poor husband is trying to watch mission impossible 3 beside me!Total debt £20,000 Northern Rock loan:eek:
Debt free date April 2016!!!!:eek:0
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