IF YOU’RE LOOKING for a charming and informative Twitter account to follow for 2016, you could do worse than @TheIrishFor.
Delving into the lunguistic wonderland that is the Irish language, curator Darach Ó Seaghda brings humour and a contemporary feel to our native tongue.
A taste…
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… is the Irish for ’jellyfish’. It translates literally as ‘seal snot’.
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… is a word without a direct English equivalent. It’s the Irish for the ‘froth from the mouth of a decaying corpse’.
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… is the Irish for ’a fool’. Specifically, it means someone whose ‘head is empty like an old eggshell’.
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… is the Irish adjective for a ‘a place with an abundance of seagulls’. And we know plenty of those.
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… is the Irish for a ‘purring cat’. It may also mean ‘a person inclined to tell tall tales and instigate low-risk hoaxes’.
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… is an old Irish name for Satan. Translates to something along the lines of ‘prince of death’. So now.
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… is an Irish word without a direct English equivalent. It means ‘ruined by bad weather’.
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… is the Irish for an old sock. Specifically an old sock with a hole where the sole should be.
More at the wonderful @TheIrishFor on Twitter.
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