Quote Originally Posted by John_Carrick View Post
As with Irish, you hear unusual syntax and expressions that seem to flow across from one language to the other. In Ireland people will say things like "my head is AT me" which mirrors sentence structure in Irish, meaning something is hurting or bothering you.
Interesting. Hereabouts people will say, "I have the headache."

Not being from this region, I wonder if there's only one headache and only one person can have it at a time.


Quote Originally Posted by John_Carrick View Post
No one has mentioned whisky names, which are often "The MacBrandname".
Ahh, yes. THE Dalmore. int: