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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’