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Dirty Irish Gaelic words litter New York City slang

 
Anonymous Coward
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01/01/2011 06:18 PM
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Dirty Irish Gaelic words litter New York City slang
Just before he died, Daniel Cassidy released a pioneering book that begins to prove how American slang has a root in the Irish American urban experience. As usual, snoots would rather fall on the side of error than to end the kibosh on ascribing Irish origins to any aspect of Anglo-American society. Ireland has a native civilization older than England or France, and it has out-proportioned contributions to modernist culture, but it is more usually described as derivative rather than an originator of trends

[link to www.irishcentral.com]
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01/01/2011 06:29 PM
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Re: Dirty Irish Gaelic words litter New York City slang
I can dig it...
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06/25/2013 01:58 AM
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Some people didn't like that ook. I guess that want cassidy to P'tann.
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if you wanna the irish as it is spoken today

www.TG4.ie

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10/23/2017 11:26 PM
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From the article:

"We don't normally exclaim "Gee whiz" or "Gee whilikers" anymore. We associate such talk with a classic time in New York, when Irish Gaelic was the secret language of the slums, an Irish Gaelic word which means 's slom é, or "it's bleak." In the slums it was common to hear Irish people say Dia Thoilleachas, Gee Hillukus, which became Gee Whilikers, and means the "will of God." "Gee" is the approximate pronunciation of Dia, or the Irish word for God. "Holy cow" means Holy Cathú or Holy Cahoo or Holy Grief. "Darn" is another Gaelic exclamation. In Irish you say daithairne ort, which means, "darn on you" or "misfortune on you." Gee whiz comes from Dia Uas or Geeuh Woous which means "noble god.""
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10/24/2017 12:16 AM
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bump and 5 stars, OP.
Very informative and interesting article, nice website altogether.





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