Product Details: There are languages and languages, and languages within languages, and in Ireland we have no lack of them. There is English and there is Irish and several variations within such as Sham Talk and Dublin Speak. But there is also a sizeable section of our community who have a language all of their own and this language is variously known as Cant or Gammon.
Even within our Travelling Community there are the Fairground Travellers known as Showpeople of Carnival People and they have a dialect called Parley, which by its very name would suggest a strong European influence. In this fascinating glossary we have a compendium of this with the English and Irish equivalents and it is a delightful incursion into the use of words and terms and how they compare with our everyday speech.
There are many of these terms that have made their way into our "normal" daily speech such as "Clobber" for "Clothes" or "Éadaigh" to "Run is to "Scarper" or "Rith", to "Show" is to "Flash" or "Taispeán". To "make fun of somebody" is "to set him or her up" or "déan magadh faoi duinne eicint" and a "worker" is a "grafter" or a "oibrí".
This particular little book could help rewrite the dictionaries of scrabble.
Category :Ireland - Irish language - Minority groups - Language and reference
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