I always knew it was out there, and a wee bit odd. But until tonight, I never really paid it much mind.

I stumbled across a site with various handy Gaelic phrases. It’s now abundantly clear to me why Irish accents sound the way they do. You can’t help but develop that particular twang when speaking Gaelic.

My friend Erin (go Bragh!), after reviewing the list, decided the Irish just started speaking jibberish one day to confuse the bloody hell out of the Brits.

Although no Wikipediable historical evidence supports this, I think she might be on to something.

I can’t list all my favorites here. They’re all great fun to yell across the room at somebody. I had a real blast kicking my brother out of my room with this one:

PHRASE:		Imeacht gan teacht ort.
PRONOUNCED:	Im/ockt gon chock/th urt.
MEANING:		May you leave without returning.

This one inspired a few lol’s. Replace bean with fear? … Okay?

PHRASE:		An bhfuil bean sa chistin?
PRONOUNCED:	On will ban sa khish-tin?
MEANING:		Is there a woman in the kitchen?
		(replace 'bean' with 'fear' (pronounced 'far') to ask 'is there a man in the kitchen?')



link:

http://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm

I got so inspired, I had to turn on Flogging Molly (the greatest band in the entire universe). And I’m back to obsessively planning my England/Ireland tour next year.

http://www.ireland-information.com/irishphrases.htm