If I said, 'I have a goo on me.' or 'Giz a Goo.'
Would you know what I mean?
#speirgorm #hibernoenglish
Would you know what I mean?
#speirgorm #hibernoenglish
February 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If I said, 'I have a goo on me.' or 'Giz a Goo.'
Would you know what I mean?
#speirgorm #hibernoenglish
Would you know what I mean?
#speirgorm #hibernoenglish
Listen!
(in the HibernoEnglish sense)
(in the HibernoEnglish sense)
If you were asked to translate Beowulf into modern English, how would you translate ‘Hwæt’?
April 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Listen!
(in the HibernoEnglish sense)
(in the HibernoEnglish sense)
Yup. When you have ignored all the “Careful now, lads” warnings because you don’t understand HibernoEnglish :)
August 9, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Yup. When you have ignored all the “Careful now, lads” warnings because you don’t understand HibernoEnglish :)
Nothing annoys me as much as 'folx' from people on this side of the Atlantic, but Irish people using 'y'all' instead of a perfectly respectable 'ye' or 'yous' (standard Hibernoenglish) is up there.
Minor point but I really hate this performative “y’all” people do to try and appear more folksy. I don’t type in a Yorkshire accent and I did people would rightly tell me to shut up.
August 28, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Nothing annoys me as much as 'folx' from people on this side of the Atlantic, but Irish people using 'y'all' instead of a perfectly respectable 'ye' or 'yous' (standard Hibernoenglish) is up there.
Ní fhéidir é a shéanadh… #HibernoEnglish
November 26, 2024 at 2:45 PM
Ní fhéidir é a shéanadh… #HibernoEnglish
Piggybacking off a different thread, this is my first line of Beowulf (even more HibernoEnglish than Heaney).
Lads! The Spear-Danes from ages back
were great fellas altogether, and so were their kings.
Sure haven't we all got a story about them.
Lads! The Spear-Danes from ages back
were great fellas altogether, and so were their kings.
Sure haven't we all got a story about them.
Lads! The Spear-Danes ages ago were great fellas altogether, and so were their kings.
June 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Piggybacking off a different thread, this is my first line of Beowulf (even more HibernoEnglish than Heaney).
Lads! The Spear-Danes from ages back
were great fellas altogether, and so were their kings.
Sure haven't we all got a story about them.
Lads! The Spear-Danes from ages back
were great fellas altogether, and so were their kings.
Sure haven't we all got a story about them.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 AM
April 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Encountered an authentic use of "do be always" in casual conversation. Day made. #HibernoEnglish #Speirgorm
December 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Encountered an authentic use of "do be always" in casual conversation. Day made. #HibernoEnglish #Speirgorm
In HibernoEnglish, the only true form, we would say he's an absolute dote.
February 26, 2026 at 5:24 PM
In HibernoEnglish, the only true form, we would say he's an absolute dote.
Alt-text #spéirghorm means everyone can delight in our
charming/disarmingly evasive, communication peccadillos/virtues.
#Irish #HibernoEnglish #Grand
charming/disarmingly evasive, communication peccadillos/virtues.
#Irish #HibernoEnglish #Grand
June 21, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Alt-text #spéirghorm means everyone can delight in our
charming/disarmingly evasive, communication peccadillos/virtues.
#Irish #HibernoEnglish #Grand
charming/disarmingly evasive, communication peccadillos/virtues.
#Irish #HibernoEnglish #Grand
Dear #irishbluesky and #blueskyireland and #ireland folk:
We have an absolutely fabulous and hilarious take on the English language and some of our expressions are purest poetry.
Let's get a thread up and running of some of the best hiberno english expressions.
#hibernoenglish
We have an absolutely fabulous and hilarious take on the English language and some of our expressions are purest poetry.
Let's get a thread up and running of some of the best hiberno english expressions.
#hibernoenglish
February 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dear #irishbluesky and #blueskyireland and #ireland folk:
We have an absolutely fabulous and hilarious take on the English language and some of our expressions are purest poetry.
Let's get a thread up and running of some of the best hiberno english expressions.
#hibernoenglish
We have an absolutely fabulous and hilarious take on the English language and some of our expressions are purest poetry.
Let's get a thread up and running of some of the best hiberno english expressions.
#hibernoenglish
Jaundiced?
Skeways?
"well lookit..."
We owe it to @davidmccullough.bsky.social , FloridaDave, to show the infinite gradations of subtle weariness in HibernoEnglish as applied to gubbimint
Skeways?
"well lookit..."
We owe it to @davidmccullough.bsky.social , FloridaDave, to show the infinite gradations of subtle weariness in HibernoEnglish as applied to gubbimint
January 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Jaundiced?
Skeways?
"well lookit..."
We owe it to @davidmccullough.bsky.social , FloridaDave, to show the infinite gradations of subtle weariness in HibernoEnglish as applied to gubbimint
Skeways?
"well lookit..."
We owe it to @davidmccullough.bsky.social , FloridaDave, to show the infinite gradations of subtle weariness in HibernoEnglish as applied to gubbimint
This was a question my father Fred frequently asked of my mother Anne
#Gaeilge or Irish often frames a question in the negative so the respondent can feel more at ease.
Nach bhfuil an dinnéar réidh fós - sounds quite normal to me but outside Ireland it sounds odd
#HibernoEnglish #SpéirGhorm
#Gaeilge or Irish often frames a question in the negative so the respondent can feel more at ease.
Nach bhfuil an dinnéar réidh fós - sounds quite normal to me but outside Ireland it sounds odd
#HibernoEnglish #SpéirGhorm
4)"Is the dinner not ready yet?"
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
March 10, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This was a question my father Fred frequently asked of my mother Anne
#Gaeilge or Irish often frames a question in the negative so the respondent can feel more at ease.
Nach bhfuil an dinnéar réidh fós - sounds quite normal to me but outside Ireland it sounds odd
#HibernoEnglish #SpéirGhorm
#Gaeilge or Irish often frames a question in the negative so the respondent can feel more at ease.
Nach bhfuil an dinnéar réidh fós - sounds quite normal to me but outside Ireland it sounds odd
#HibernoEnglish #SpéirGhorm
I’m a big that fan (Yaaay, that fans)
It’s a load bearing word :)
It also feels more natural to me but then again hibernoenglish is a strange haunted language :)
It’s a load bearing word :)
It also feels more natural to me but then again hibernoenglish is a strange haunted language :)
August 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM
I’m a big that fan (Yaaay, that fans)
It’s a load bearing word :)
It also feels more natural to me but then again hibernoenglish is a strange haunted language :)
It’s a load bearing word :)
It also feels more natural to me but then again hibernoenglish is a strange haunted language :)
I finally got round to framing this tea towel I bought at the Irish in Britain exhibit last year. Hilariously, my daughter read it and was like Oh yeah I know most of these between you (Mayo) and daddy (Down) 😂 that made me very happy!
#irishinbritain #hibernoenglish #feelslikehometome
#irishinbritain #hibernoenglish #feelslikehometome
January 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I finally got round to framing this tea towel I bought at the Irish in Britain exhibit last year. Hilariously, my daughter read it and was like Oh yeah I know most of these between you (Mayo) and daddy (Down) 😂 that made me very happy!
#irishinbritain #hibernoenglish #feelslikehometome
#irishinbritain #hibernoenglish #feelslikehometome
I’m looking for speakers of niche / traditional dialects to help test out an etymological spelling system.
#yola #scots #englishdialects #Geordie #Scouse #Mancunian #Tyke #Brummie #Cockney #WestCountry #BlackCountry #Glaswegian #Doric #HibernoEnglish #EstuaryEnglish #neography #conorthography
#yola #scots #englishdialects #Geordie #Scouse #Mancunian #Tyke #Brummie #Cockney #WestCountry #BlackCountry #Glaswegian #Doric #HibernoEnglish #EstuaryEnglish #neography #conorthography
April 10, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I’m looking for speakers of niche / traditional dialects to help test out an etymological spelling system.
#yola #scots #englishdialects #Geordie #Scouse #Mancunian #Tyke #Brummie #Cockney #WestCountry #BlackCountry #Glaswegian #Doric #HibernoEnglish #EstuaryEnglish #neography #conorthography
#yola #scots #englishdialects #Geordie #Scouse #Mancunian #Tyke #Brummie #Cockney #WestCountry #BlackCountry #Glaswegian #Doric #HibernoEnglish #EstuaryEnglish #neography #conorthography
I have once more to respond to the HibernoEnglish word “a hames” to describe the fractal and constantly growing mess we are now faced with.
A mess is, well, messy but resolvable. A hames is “let us never speak of this again” territory.
A mess is, well, messy but resolvable. A hames is “let us never speak of this again” territory.
February 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I have once more to respond to the HibernoEnglish word “a hames” to describe the fractal and constantly growing mess we are now faced with.
A mess is, well, messy but resolvable. A hames is “let us never speak of this again” territory.
A mess is, well, messy but resolvable. A hames is “let us never speak of this again” territory.
4)"Is the dinner not ready yet?"
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
March 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
4)"Is the dinner not ready yet?"
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
You've heard it. Maybe you've said it. It's not bad English. It's Irish.
Mollie Guidera explains why on this week's Irish Stew.
🎙️ Link in thread ⬆️
#HibernoEnglish #Gaeilge #IrishLanguage #Spéirghorm
Vibing with this absolute turbo nerd finding commonalities and connections between Gaelic and Arabic
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#hibernoenglish #gaeilge #irishlanguage
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