Ireland


I got accused of being from Dublin yesterday for pronouncing RPG as “or pee gee” rather than “ar pee gee” 😭

I blame my parents sending me to elocution lessons as a child to get the culchie out of me







the thing about Ireland is it might only be 16°C but it’s also 100% humidity so walking up hill to the train station with a backpack on I am drenched in sweat and it just doesn’t evaporate because the air is made of water




Everyone in Ireland in the eighteenth century seeing a rat for the first time: That cunt is French!

Context

Rats were introduced to Ireland around the 1720s and the word for rat and French are the same, a clipping from luch Fhrancach which literally means French mouse.