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do all the 'non nationals' that you know and work with say 'grand' all the time too

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  1. No! None actually!


  2. Feck off comes to mind

  3. lol no but i do

  4. YES!! Its definatly the case. I have worked alongside Polish and Lithanian girls with whom I got on great. They were soon throwing 'grand' and 'like' into all their sentances.!

  5. Cant say ive noticed.....but i definately say it alot

  6. oh yeah...

    "that's grand like"

    "thanks a million"

    "Great craic altogether"

    "Alright boy"

    I've heard it all.

    It's great!

  7. that's hilarious, they do, all the time.  When they start saying 'thanks a million' I'll get seriously worried. LOL

  8. They pick up the phrases used around them, it's normal. I worked with a woman whose first language was Spanish and she had some choice phrases from the west of Ireland; my sister-in-law from New Zealand still has a strong accent but uses phrases like 'yer man', and my husband who is Dutch actually sounds like he's from the west of Ireland, unless he's tired and makes a mistake in grammar or something.

    When I lived in the Netherlands and worked in a factory (for a total of about 10 months) among Dutch locals, I started to pick up the local dialect, no-one around me spoke English, so I had very little choice in the matter.

    I think it would be good for a lot of Irish people to go and live in a country where they don't speak the language for a while, they would be a bit more appreciative of the initial difficulties that migrant workers face when they are starting out with a limited, classroom version of the language of the country they have migrated to.

  9. Yeah, I am a "non national" and I'm not a big fan of the word "grand" but I use it sometimes! It just slips in...

  10. yes all the time its the same as english ppl always say the word mate

  11. ha ha ha ha I don't know I never took any notice

  12. I'm a Scot who after thirty years in Ireland have mastered the usual terms.I draw the line at the one expression that really gets up my nose.MAMMY!
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