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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2013 »
Here there was wild heat up them there mournes! Like it was mental, sweat was lashing aff me, and I only done the 6 miles.  Like here's me......what! 

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« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2013 »
It was good craic alright - and you're not joking about the heat. Have been givin a dose of the burnt shins!

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Re: Mourne way Marathon
« Reply #17 on: June 10, 2013 »
Nicely done Claire. Anyone else do it?
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« Reply #18 on: June 10, 2013 »
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professor Eileen M. Trauth notes "craic" as an intrinsic part of the culture of sociability that distinguished the Irish workplace from those of other countries

I think the use of the word craic is a positive affirmation of our cultural heritage, as being from the island of Ireland. I also think it universal across Northern Ireland, regardless of political, social and religious viewpoints.

I don't particularly mind whether it's pseudo-Gaelic or English or just something we made up.
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clairebear

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« Reply #19 on: June 10, 2013 »
I love how in our Island there are so many words and sayings associated with different areas.  Saw this on Facebook and it made me laugh.  I remember being called a 'cuddy' by an old work colleague who was from Fermanagh direction, I actually had to ask him what it meant. 

Bit off the original thread about the mourne way.  Spud fair play for walking it, hope you used factor 50!
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Re: Mourne way Marathon
« Reply #20 on: June 10, 2013 »
From a pragmatic perspective the meaning of language comes mainly from how it is used. The word "craic" is used to describe fun / banter throughout Ireland and will do for the foreseeable future, so I'm happy to accept its meaning as such. The whole "psueod-gaelic" thing from Diarmaid Ó Muirithe is an erudite musing from a language specialist, but just as some are pedantic about the word data being plural - it as little bearing on the real life use of language.

I doubt the word craic is going anywhere any time soon.
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« Reply #21 on: June 10, 2013 »
Absolutely Ed. It's like...

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« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2013 »
Quote from: clairebear on June 10, 2013
Spud fair play for walking it, hope you used factor 50!

Cheers claire, had factor 30 and a sun hat! Lol
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« Reply #23 on: June 10, 2013 »
Quote from: KyleL on June 10, 2013
Absolutely Ed. It's like...



Haha that's a "craicer"
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Re: Mourne way Marathon
« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2013 »
Well done clairebear, we were up there on saturday and watched a lot of the runners pass by Hen Mountain, it was a scorcher, like an open oven in the face, lol, karma.
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« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2013 »
Well done ClaireBear. I took the Rambler up to Fofanny, and the professional photographers there for the athletes kindly took my picture.
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Re: Mourne way Marathon
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2013 »
Sigh. I suppose I deserved all that  :-[ (but craicer and craicing ... come off it!!)

I like all our dialect and slang words and phrases as much as the next person .. in fact maybe a bit more, I've quite an interest in Ulster English and Scots dialects. That's why it irritates me to see a word consistently and needlessly Gaelicised when people are writing English.

Won't mention it again, whatever way people spell it! ... But do please check out the History section of that Wikipedia page.

Certainly no offence meant to anybody on here or elsewhere,

... sure it was only a bit a craic so it was.

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Re: Mourne way Marathon
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2013 »
It could be worse, they could have mentioned the SpRinkwee River  >:(

p.s. well done Claire, wish I could have done it, I was a bit jealous of all those runners at the finish, although I still managed to wangle a free beer  ;)  (sjh, are we allowed to use wangle  ??? )
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« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2013 »
Haha sjh, all good crai...er.. Fun :)
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« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2013 »
Quote from: LandyLiam on June 11, 2013
It could be worse, they could have mentioned the SpRinkwee River  >:(

p.s. well done Claire, wish I could have done it, I was a bit jealous of all those runners at the finish, although I still managed to wangle a free beer  ;)  (sjh, are we allowed to use wangle  ??? )

I hope I have never written 'Sprinkwee'!

Wangle is fine! I think people have slightly missed the point I was making here. I stand fully by what I said but I don't want to derail the thread any further so if anybody wants a discussion please PM me or start a new thread and I'll gladly contribute. I should probably have done that in the first place actually ... or just ignored it ...

Again well done to Claire and the others who did the walk/run ... hope you can get your thread back on track now!



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What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

... from 'Inversnaid' by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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