Comments on: A few more thoughts on Irish-English … http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/irish-english-borrowing Global English and language change Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Stan http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/irish-english-borrowing/comment-page-1#comment-812 Stan Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:09:12 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=3026#comment-812 I've only ever heard <i>meas</i> used with <i>on</i>, e.g. "She has no meas on him since the day he burnt down the barn." But I think it can also be used with <i>in</i>. I’ve only ever heard meas used with on, e.g. “She has no meas on him since the day he burnt down the barn.” But I think it can also be used with in.

]]> By: Stan http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/irish-english-borrowing/comment-page-1#comment-811 Stan Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:19:51 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=3026#comment-811 P. W. Joyce offers variations on the <i>cockles</i> phrase, e.g. "take the cockles off your heart" and "raise the cockles o' my heart", and suggests (p.194 <a href="http://www.chaptersofdublin.com/books/Joycenglish/joyce12.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>) that "cares and troubles clog the heart as cockles clog a ship". But this seems to be a guess. T. P. Dolan <a href="http://www.hiberno-english.com/body.php?id=3128" rel="nofollow">connects</a> the phrase with the Irish <i>cochall</i>. Bernard Share concurs: in <i>Slanguage</i>, he includes the phrase "i gcochall mo chroí" ("deep down in my heart"), and quotes from a <i>Sunday Tribune</i> <a href="http://www.tribune.ie/archive/article/2002/jun/30/irish-settlers-gave-the-world-the-didgeridoo/" rel="nofollow">article</a> about research carried out by Dymphna Lonergan. The last four lines are about <i>cochall</i> (which, as Pageturners says, means "hood"). P. W. Joyce offers variations on the cockles phrase, e.g. “take the cockles off your heart” and “raise the cockles o’ my heart”, and suggests (p.194 here) that “cares and troubles clog the heart as cockles clog a ship”.

But this seems to be a guess. T. P. Dolan connects the phrase with the Irish cochall. Bernard Share concurs: in Slanguage, he includes the phrase “i gcochall mo chroí” (“deep down in my heart”), and quotes from a Sunday Tribune article about research carried out by Dymphna Lonergan. The last four lines are about cochall (which, as Pageturners says, means “hood”).

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]]> By: Pageturners http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/irish-english-borrowing/comment-page-1#comment-809 Pageturners Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:47:02 +0000 http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/?p=3026#comment-809 Cochall is a hood, and by extension any hood-like thing; I suppose the implication is that to have the cockles of your heart warmed is to be endraped in loving warmth around your heart. Cochall is a hood, and by extension any hood-like thing; I suppose the implication is that to have the cockles of your heart warmed is to be endraped in loving warmth around your heart.

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