Things my parents used to say
mother: go 'up' the street or go 'down' the street
not 'left' or 'right' and if she told me to go down
the street then she would say 'I told you
go up the street but you went down the street.'
Can I just add there was no gradient...
'Raining cats and dogs'
'It's snowing pell mell'
'The sun is splittin the trees'
'It's beltin rain'
'I'll be got dead with the cold'
'The sweat is teemin off me'
'I'll have to work like a black'
Going to the shops for basic groceries
would be 'going for the messages'.
She would also say all the childhood
nursery rhymes to the dogs.
She also said that in life it's
best to blend in with the wallpaper.
father:
Evening meal would be called 'tea.'
One time he said to tourists
'I'm after having a lovely swim' and they
looked at each other puzzled. They were thrown
into total disarray.
It is Hiberno English.
DOGGO he named our dog DOGGO in the eighties
before it was a thing.
TELEVISION he would just call a TV a 'set'.
A drunk would be jarred and a cupboard would be
a press.
'Would' is often used, instead of can or could
for asking things, more courteous.
So that is some of our dialect.
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