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How til speak Ballymena
« on: Wednesday 11 July 07 23:26 BST (UK) »

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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 23 August 07 15:42 BST (UK) »
Hey Blackadder hey,
Air ye goin til give yin til yin tuition hey ???

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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 23 August 07 23:37 BST (UK) »
I am deeply offended .. that is quite obviously a Larne accent ;D

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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #3 on: Friday 24 August 07 01:06 BST (UK) »
Larne ??? Not on yer nelly, squire. Actually old boy, it's Anglo Irish, public school educated in Dublin, with
a smattering of the lingo of travelling people since I worked several years in a circus, and a sprinkling of Ballynahinch 8)

I'll admit you could be close to the locality. It could possibly be East Antrim as my mother's people came from the Ballyeaston area ;) 

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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #4 on: Friday 24 August 07 11:42 BST (UK) »
Really enjoyed the article.  My husband and I (!!!!) have lived away from Northern Ireland for 40 years and still use a lot of those words.  I'm always telling my granddaughter to gather up her prugh before she goes home.  I have the Concise Ulster Dictionary in my posession if anyone wants me to look up a word from their past.  RosemaryJoan
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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #5 on: Friday 24 August 07 12:15 BST (UK) »
I had a wee skelly at thon list and duked some of tha wairds 8) Where are tha "Fs" ??? There's nae "futterin" shown on thon list :o Tha compiler must be a pauckle ... sorry if that's not tha correct spelling ... yon Google guy must have mitched tha hedge school and not larnt awl tha wairds frae Antrim.

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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #6 on: Friday 24 August 07 17:14 BST (UK) »
Concise Ulster Dictionary:  Futter - see footer.
Footer,foother,fitter,futter - verb
1 work in a clumsy way,
2. potter, fidget, rummage about
3 (of a horse) move the feet restlessly
- noun
1 a useless, awkward person, a clumsy worker.
2 a state of disorganisation confusion
Footering - noun the act of pottering about.

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Fame at last!!
« Reply #7 on: Friday 24 August 07 17:38 BST (UK) »
Reading Blackadder's topic on how to speak Ballymena moved me to look at the Ballymena Times link, given in that topic.
I sent an email, and if you look at the site, under Ballymena Heritage you will find a link to 'our wee website'.  Enjoy.  RosemaryJoan



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Cully, Bannister, McConnell, Wallace (Co. Armagh)  Anderson, Ross (Co. Antrim), Gray, Truesdale (Co. Down)
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Re: How til speak Ballymena
« Reply #8 on: Friday 24 August 07 19:43 BST (UK) »
How did I miss footer!!!!! >:(
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