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Written by John McCullagh
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Monday, 30 May 2005 |
This is the penultimate in our long-running series of an alphabet of words peculiar to, or used in a specific meaning in South Armagh. We have had few reactions, hostile or supportive, and few additions or corrections. Please correct this!
Dialect ‘U’
Unbeknownst : unknown
to
Unchancy : unlucky,
‘an unchancy one, that boyo’
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Written by John McCullagh
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Sunday, 29 May 2005 |
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latest Government initiative to curtail yobbish behaviour is the imposition of
ASBO’s, or anti-social behaviour orders.
One had already been served upon solicitor Roger Maxwell’s client,
Stephen Winestoned when he was re-arrested. |
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Written by John McCullagh
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Sunday, 29 May 2005 |
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Trig : neat,
‘a trig wee farm’
Trinkle : trickle,
‘there’s a wee trinkle left in the river still’
Trinnel : trundle; 'trinnel it up to the cart for me, please'
Trollop : an
untidy person; 'don't be walking out with that trollop!' |
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