Irishisms

Irishisms Blather, Blarney, Blessings and Everything Else We Say in Ireland

Hardback (20 Oct 2017)

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Publisher's Synopsis

While officially in Ireland we may have only two languages, in truth is it is probably closer to three: English, Irish and Irish-English. And it is this third language, Irish-English, that most of us on our fair island now speak.

Irishisms examines many of the words and phrases that colour this unique language and in doing so attempts to shed light on all the wonderful ways we have for saying how average we are, what we really mean when we say sorry, how to describe your level of insobriety, the difference between a wagon and a weapon and when awful is better than savage.

Book information

ISBN: 9780717175512
Publisher: Gill
Imprint: Gill Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 427.9415
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 343
Weight: 470g
Height: 134mm
Width: 176mm
Spine width: 29mm