Where did you have the dodgiest coffee?

Postby **Andrew MacLean** » Sat 01 Apr 2006 9:32 pm

I have ehard some. In Belfast one day a friend said something gruff that sounded like "'boot ye". The other man whom we were passing said what sounded like "stikin oot"

I asked my friend what he had said and he told me "hello"

I guess the Clinton thing will give you years of stories. Especiallyif Hilary Rodham follows her husband into the White House.

Was she there

Andrew

Lynn White · Postby **Lynn White** » Sat 01 Apr 2006 9:48 pm

Hahah.. yeah I don't think you can beat Belfast for incomprehensibility...

Though I am struggling with what Jay said.. "Iry Iry"? Is that phonetic Jay? Many rastas round off sentences with "I an' I" which is the closest I can think of? Well its more of a rumble than a round off...

Or a "Yesss Iaiah!"

Just as a passing thought... the Trinis play with words and ehance their meaning...thus crisp becomes "cripss" as in if the house has been tidied up "I got de place lookin' cripss and nice!"

Films are "Flims" and so on...

Hmmm I don't think any of us can compete with MIB to guard the coffee !

Lynn

Emma_Marie · Postby **Emma_Marie** » Sat 01 Apr 2006 9:50 pm

jayuk

lol i assure you that the people in NI are completely safe drinking my coffee - except when i'm having a bad eye day, or a calamity day which happens alot! perhaps an ambulance on standby - but the bomb squad - now thats extreme!

Emma_Marie · Postby **Emma_Marie** » Sat 01 Apr 2006 9:51 pm

Andrew - yup Hilary was there as was their Chelsea! I even got my picture in the paper!

Lynn White · Postby **Lynn White** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 9:56 am

Oh ho! Jay... I found out about the Iry Iry. Its seems its a corruption of "Ah' righ'", as in "coool, mon..." or "cool runnin', ever't'ing fine an' nice, mon..."

With typical caribbean twisting it became an " Irry Irry" pronunciation! In the same conversation, he (husband I mean) came out with "Idem trodding" I went WHAT? I laughed when he told me...

So Jay... put your brains round that one and see if you can sort it out!

Lynn

jayuk · Postby **jayuk** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 3:02 pm

Hmm can you tell me the sentence that he used where that came into it

GarethB · Postby **GarethB** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 4:26 pm

Jay,

I went to uni at the bit on Romford Road, just down from Stratford Fire station and the rest was the new bit at the back, can not remember what road that was on.

Go through Romford Road main entrance, practically tsraight line and out tother side and you see the new part of the Uni, well it was newish when I started in 89

jayuk · Postby **jayuk** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 4:32 pm

Gareth

Small world...you know the road that was adjacent to the main entrace?..That is Water Lane....so if you went down that road you would end up at Maryland Station?.....well on Water Lane we had various property and businesses!..Small world!....Although in 1989 I was in Year 8 of secondary school!! :-)

J

Lynn White · Postby **Lynn White** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 4:37 pm

Ok Jay....

He says: "If dere is a crew chilin' an' two or t'ree people look at their watches, de others can say, , "What 'appen, you idem trodding or wha'??"

Postby **Andrew MacLean** » Sun 02 Apr 2006 4:37 pm

Okay, okay, time out!

As you know, some of us live in the far north, beyond Carlisle in the Kingdom o' Scots. Here we live life at a simpler, slower pace.

In Primary School children progress through seven levels, from P1 to p7. They then progress to Secondary School where they progress again through years 1 - 6.

A very sophisticated reading of the system would betray a two stage progression through the six years of secondary education, through the junior shcool( years 1 to 3) and into the senior school (years 4 to 6)

Nothing in any of this prepares me to understand a sentence like "I was in year 8 of secondary school".

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