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I'm putting this in 2 topics as I want as much help as possible...
Could you irish abers please give me typical day to day conversations about the weather, with your expressions. TIA

butterflies Tue 20/05/08 18:02

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delboy3
Wed 21/05/08
00:05

My uncle, when talking about a light rain shower, would say the weather was 'soft'. Also my dad would say if it was a particularly chilly day that it was "as cold as a *****'s heart".

delboy3
Wed 21/05/08
00:07

^^^ missing word rhymes with floors, or in my dad's accent, a 'hoower'

derrynoose
Thurs 22/05/08
19:37

You need to know the Ballymena accent to appreciate that in that part of Northern Ireland the word "passion" means "raining very heavily"!

Whickerman
Thurs 22/05/08
19:42

more pishin than passion...

Brightening up - said whenever it stops raining.

Also - there's an old saying about the Kerry mountains - If you can see the mountains it's about to rain; if you can't, it already is.

beejay1124
Thurs 22/05/08
20:01

or...sex and passion--heavy rain at tea time in ballymena

butterflies
Fri 23/05/08
12:11

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derrynoose and beejay; are you 2 having me on?

derrynoose
Fri 23/05/08
17:53

Ian Paisley is MP for the Ballymena (North Antrim) area.If you listen to him speak you will notice the"broad" accent which people from that part of NI use. You may even hear him use the word "passion" but it will be in the ordinary sense of the word. If an ordinary Ballymena person, if such exists, is describing rain as "pishing down", the broad pronunciation comes across as "passion". I kid you not . It is a well recognised pronunciation in Northern Ireland.

annemollie
Fri 23/05/08
17:58

What about when the coalman comes and says 'A''m lookin' for me sex'?

beejay1124
Sat 24/05/08
08:33

butterflies-not having you on-could give you lots of similar expressions from this area-i should know because i..........

butterflies
Sun 25/05/08
10:40

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yes, please go on beejay....

derrynoose
Wed 28/05/08
19:33

I don't know if you have read any books by John Pepper. He details language peculiar to Northern Ireland. You may find some weather conversations in them.

annemollie
Wed 28/05/08
20:15

Not related to weather but cited by John Pepper - a new (foreign) doctor in Ballymena was at a loss when a patient complained - 'I fell in a sheugh and dunted ma hinch'.
Quite plain to us what she meant.

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