Hallo out there
let,s record here our favourite Norniron expressions and herewith preserve them for coming generations.
I,ll start

Sometimes said about a neighbour who couldn,t make a good cup of tea.

"If she was as wake as the tea she makes they would be sittin up wi her! "
Come on , let,s hear them
Donald

IT’S STICKIN’ OUT!
Not quite the same thing, but I remember the headmaster trying to make young Lawrence understand that ‘afalafalafalarry’ may not be understood by everyone as ‘a fellow fell off a lorry’.

Another one
HOUL YIR WISCH ( Be quiet )

Or more sharply, ‘SHUT Y’R BAKE!

Waddayehavin?
Aweehaf’n.
N’y’rself?
Amawrrightfertheminit.

Question = How,s yir Ma?
Answer " Shis in bett wi the Doctor!"
or
"Shi was at death,s dure but the doctor pullt her thru"

Talking about a tight fisted person
" Shis awful near!"
or
About someone who always pleads poverty
" Shis always puttin on a poor mouth!"
or
About someone who,s always angry
" Shis quare an cross!"
or
A person who is without funds
" Shi hasn,t a make!" alternativley = Shi hasn,t two pennies til rub together!"
Come on a that with yiz, hav yiz all forgetton hi till spake Norniron?
Donald

Ach will yis all catch yerselves on!!

No I haven't forgotten Norniron, here's a few lines.

"Wouldya luk at him stannin about wi his two arms the wan length!"

"That wumman gives me the nyrps"

"We're goin' go have wor tea"

"Wordaz on the buroo"

"I'd far rar bar the farr's car"

"That fella's a quare geg"

"Go on ye oul ijit!"

"He's nathin but a big ignorant gaunch!"

"I'm away for a wee dander"

If you need to refresh your memory regarding the Ulster dialect and colloquial speech there are several publications by an Ulsterman, John Pepper.
One is the Ulster-English Dictionary, and it is hilarous! Now my husband knows that I'm not making these words up! He has been accusing me for years that I was inventing some new language!

Yup-yet. Are you up yet. Boys a Boys. Amazement or I dont believe it.

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Replying to:

Hallo out there
let,s record here our favourite Norniron expressions and herewith preserve them for coming generations.
I,ll start

Sometimes said about a neighbour who couldn,t make a good cup of tea.

"If she was as wake as the tea she makes they would be sittin up wi her! "
Come on , let,s hear them
Donald

Dabbler,

What about: A slap in the gub! Or, I'll slap yer jollars for ye!

Donald,

Regarding tea, I've heard it said that "The tay was like scarred wather!"

Person searching for his brother

"Hav yi saw ir Rabbie, he,s away out in the huff, wudnit take his tea because it was coffee!"

Farmer talking about his livestock = The Bastes

ps Lady D ,speaking about bands and Kilwarin, did you per chance ever hear of Cathal McCann the singing breadman from that area?
Donald

just howl on a mint

he,d a face like a lurgan spade

a quirk of norn iron which i,m trying to get over is to walk into a strange house or party or gathering and point to a chair and ask is anybody sitting there? only to be told slowly no you can have it and strange looks??

Donald,

No, I never heard of McCann the singing breadman. I've been away from Norniron since 1960 so maybe he was around some time after that. I did go to school with McCann children, but none by that first name.

hows she cutten bye, i remember Cathel McCann singing in a talent show on tea time with Tommy.back when Roger Whittaker was his studio guitarist,Roger has come a long way since then.I hear Cathel McCann sometimes here in Canada on the irish radio programs.L/D. mentioned jimmy Johnston showband,I remember seeing his posters in Glasgow and parts of england years ago,A guy from Young street( Ken McNeill) played in that band .The Showband era was the greatest!. Are you reading that paper your sitting on?

If you don't quit coddin aroun youll get a quare cuff on the lug.

Beano

YIN..... Are you in

Beano

Cathel sill has a bread run around the Kilwarin / Moira / Magheralin area, my wife pointed him out to me in Kilwarin when we visited her parents grave there in February.
Donald

Another Norniron expression
Bob,s yir uncle = everything is in order.

Houl on a mint and shut you bake its him was cloddin the stones, I was ony stanin fornenst him.

Beano

Bravo Beano! Yer dead on wi that one!

Now you're really rollin' with the Noriron lingo!

Cathel the breadman must be brave and oul by now?

Lady D
aye as aul as the hills.


Are yiz all done the noo?, or , is that you?
both meaming are you finshed.


A saw her up the town ,dressed like a sore finger wi neither chick nor chile wi her.
meaning A well dressed unaccompanied Lady was seen in the town centre
Donald

My step mother said to me once, "Ach, ni Beddy, sure I had a man in and he took a han out of me. Sure, he had his han right in up to the elbow!" She mean she had been 'done', or to put it another way, her eye wiped! (overcharged for work)! But she said she was feelin' her self again the next day.

Liz

Liz
I thought you ‘d be goood f'r the crack, ‘n’so y’are.
A' think y’d give the boys a run f’r their money when it comes t’ taln a yarn.

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Jim

A hafa pound of bistiks
A windiestool
A kalisucker
A gobstopper

Donald

"If ye don't quit that girnin, I'll give ye something to girn about!"

"Quit yer whinjin"

"He's nachin but a wee blirt!"

"Aye, I see her brave an offen"

"I toul the wee lad nat till scringe his teeth but ye might as well talk till the wall!"

Do yiz mind the purta hokers?