Are the terms in Britain ( such as lorrie for truck, wireless for radio,etc.) the same in IRELAND?

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lyndsayc1984

Yes, as far as I'm aware every term is the same in Britain and Ireland. I don't think there's any variation in any parts of the country either. The only differences I think you'd find is in any slang, but even then that shouldn't be much of a problem.

murnip

Yes, in Ireland we use pretty much all the same terms as in Britain. Slang words are of course different in different regions of both countries. And neither British nor Irish people call a radio a wireless.
Here's some information about the type of English that's spoken in Ireland: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiberno-english

Christine

I sometimes think the Irish nearly speak a different language to the English at times, someone has even named it 'Hibernian English'

some minor examples I can think off are
eejit is an idiot
'glass of beer' is a 'half pint of beer'
'its grand' means its OK
'your gas' means 'thats funny' etc

As already mentioned Dublin city and Cork city accents have whole dictionary's to themselves, I've attached the Dublin one, (as I'm a Dubliner) As for the Cork accent, now that's nearly foreign to me, LOL

PS we call lorries lorries, and the radio the radio

rustynail

We say 'press' for cupboard. Go for the messages means go for the shopping. Wet the tea means make a pot of tea. Make the bed means dress the bed. A 'cake' of bread would be a home made loaf of soda bread. We did call the radio a wireless but not in modern Ireland.

Viva La Eire!

yep, e say all those things, although we tend to say truck instead of lorry but people still know what your saying!

oh, actually we don't really say wireless, you might find that old people do but the majority don't!

we have a much different slag, we don't say things that the English say in that regard! we wouldn't use the cockney slang like Rosie lea for tea and all that!

we say craic (fun), gaf (house, i think the English say that too!)

Rossie

we call it a radio here not a wireless, lol

what you would call a violin, most older irish people would call a fiddle

many different areas of ireland will have different pronunciation of words and names, e.g. the name cathal will be pronounced differently in the north of ireland compared to the south. Working class dubliners and those from cork city have numerous words and phrases not heard in the rest of the country

*golden*delicious*

People here say "sorry" a LOT, when they aren't apologising, it actually means "excuse me". As in "sorry, have you got the time?"
Jaysus!! = Jesus!!
Feck = F*ck

The best thing to do is watch Father Ted I'd say :)

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