Sitting in the Well (the Franciscan Well, for those not familiar with Cork) last weekend I learned a whole bunch of new sayings and I thought it might be fun to share with y'all back home some of them! They are approximately as follows:
"stall the ball now" or "stall the ball now, boss" = hold up there, son
"c'mere to me and I'll show ye"
some even have specific and expected responses...
"Down wit' that sort of thing"--"careful now"
"Christ on a bike with bells on it" (although 'christ' sounds more like 'chrisht')
Jesus H. tap-dancing Christ
"c'mere t'il I bait-cha boi" = mothers from North Cork yelling at misbehaving children. ('bait-cha' = beat you)
if a team won a match you might say "We bet them last week" 'bet' meaning 'beat'
math is said as "maths" but nobody here ever pronounces a "th" sound so it ends up sounding as "mats"
film sounds like "fill-um" ???
fair = very
dear = expensive
queer = strange, though it is pronounced more like "kw-are"
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