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I'm on page eleven, and if this had been on my kindle I'd have the whole lot so far highlighted, and if it had been my own personal physical copy, I might have broken my lifetime rule of 'not ruining a book' by using highlighter OMG IT'S SO GOOD AND SO CLEVER AND SO FUNNY AND SO INSIDER

Like Colm, side plates were known as skin plates at my Nana’s big farmhouse table in Ballinran 🤣

Every day is a school day! Did you know that in Waterford, a 🐌 is often referred to as a "shellakybooky"? It comes from the common Irish word for snail—seilide, pronounced "shelliduh." The Irish language has some other hilarious names for sea creatures too. For example, a 🪼 is a smugairle róin (seal snot), and a sea anemone is a cíoch farraige (sea breast).

What’s a Schwa? Is an unstressed central vowel; a smell of a letter …..Irish is a language that values melody and flow, and having consonant clusters like an L and M close together do not feel right. Gorm (blue) is pronounced ‘forum’ and garbh (rough) is ‘garuv’.
So Colm and film are CULluM and FILLUM.
Now I understand why my English friends smile when I talk about the cinema or TV 🤣

Ulster words: scundered, boke, cowpe, foundered, wile, themmuns/ ussuns, hallion.’Ussuns up North are wile witty’