Irish abers

[butterflies]

I'm putting this in 2 topics as I want as much help as possible...
Could you irish abers please give me typical day to day conversations about the weather, with your expressions. TIA

[delboy3]

My uncle, when talking about a light rain shower, would say the weather was 'soft'. Also my dad would say if it was a particularly chilly day that it was "as cold as a *****'s heart".

[delboy3]

^^^ missing word rhymes with floors, or in my dad's accent, a 'hoower'

[derrynoose]

You need to know the Ballymena accent to appreciate that in that part of Northern Ireland the word "passion" means "raining very heavily"!

[Whickerman]

more pishin than passion...

Brightening up - said whenever it stops raining.

Also - there's an old saying about the Kerry mountains - If you can see the mountains it's about to rain; if you can't, it already is.

[beejay1124]

or...sex and passion--heavy rain at tea time in ballymena

[butterflies]

derrynoose and beejay; are you 2 having me on?

[derrynoose]

Ian Paisley is MP for the Ballymena (North Antrim) area.If you listen to him speak you will notice the"broad" accent which people from that part of NI use. You may even hear him use the word "passion" but it will be in the ordinary sense of the word. If an ordinary Ballymena person, if such exists, is describing rain as "pishing down", the broad pronunciation comes across as "passion". I kid you not . It is a well recognised pronunciation in Northern Ireland.

[abstibus]

What about when the coalman comes and says 'A''m lookin' for me sex'?

[beejay1124]

butterflies-not having you on-could give you lots of similar expressions from this area-i should know because i..........

[butterflies]

yes, please go on beejay....

[derrynoose]

I don't know if you have read any books by John Pepper. He details language peculiar to Northern Ireland. You may find some weather conversations in them.

[abstibus]

Not related to weather but cited by John Pepper - a new (foreign) doctor in Ballymena was at a loss when a patient complained - 'I fell in a sheugh and dunted ma hinch'.
Quite plain to us what she meant.