Good lord!
How marvellously unsettling...
My inlaws in Dublin had a cat called Gobshite...
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Wed 7 May 2008, 12:35,
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My inlaws in Dublin had a cat called Gobshite...
Gobshite is an excellent Irish word
like Skummle and Guinness and Craic
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Wed 7 May 2008, 12:39,
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No, no, no.
"Crack" is an english word, and also features in Hiberno-English.
"Craic" is pseudo-Irish nonsense made up in the early twentieth century by gobshites who really should have known better.
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Wed 7 May 2008, 12:41,
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"Craic" is pseudo-Irish nonsense made up in the early twentieth century by gobshites who really should have known better.
There are even fools who have tried to relate the term back to the cattle stealing japes of the pre-Norman days.
They claim that "the craic was ninety" means "I stole ninety cows last night.
Wrong headed hoors.
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Wed 7 May 2008, 12:44,
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Wrong headed hoors.