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Setanta wrote:

Basically, it's because they don't blow up our **** . . . and yes, Noraid remains big in some areas of the Irish American community.

It is important for outsiders to realize that most "hyphenated Americans" are not very closely linked to the nations of their origin. For most Irish-Americans, being Irish means something akin to all the phoney claptrap that gets trotted out on St. Patrick's Day, and they have little concept of the Fenians, the IRA, Sinn Fein, the Six Counties, the Orangemen--these are largely unknown to them.

Anyway, we have to make nice with Tony, 'cause we couldn't count much on Papua to make up the short-fall in troops if we didn't have Blair on board--but we hafta keep the boys in Boston happy, too. Saddly, we will have to allow you to continue to govern yourselves, and revel in your delusions about "your" language. Ah well, we can be philosophical about it . . .

Ha ha ha! I had a reseller that was hosting 24 domains for political parties in Ireland! Then one day at the beginning of the Iraqi conflict, the crackers found a way into our server and attacked all the political sites with Islamic - Hate America stuff. It happened 2 times before the data center got it figured out. Then in the next week I lost him as a reseller and the 24 sites also.

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Bummer, dude . . . hope this didn't hurt your business.

McT--in my brother's copy of the OED, there were about 15 or 16 pages of citations on the word "hight"--which fell into dessuetude about 500 years ago. I agree that most of the grand vocabulary of the language has been unused for a long time, but we're keepin' score here, and we wanna look better than the frogs and the krauts . . .

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I use "hight" - but then, I'm a bastard...

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She hight her Cunning Coney . . .

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I like 'hicht'

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Merry Andrew wrote:

(But I still think that writing 'cheque' for 'check' is frenchified nonsense.)

Lafayette, thou shouldest be living at this hour!
Freedom fries? Fuggedabadit. Let's rendezvous off-piste. Come by limousine, I'll take the sedan from the garage. Which route shall we take?
Aperitif? Cognac? Cigarette?

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Can someone tell me the difference between 'hight' and 'yclept'?

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yclept is funnier in a job interview...

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You should have asked me some dozen years back, Andrew, when I was high for the last time ... ... I would have explained you this and even more twisted subjects in a monologue lasting for hours ... :wink:

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Hmmm - that would make a damn fine digression thread - what is the difference between hight and yclept.....hmmmmmmmmmmm......

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Walter -- a dozen years ago I would have been too drunk to care about the difference between anything. Smile

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"Wine provoketh the desire, but limiteth the performance."?

Obviously not in Walter's case, Willy. Razz

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i don't think it was WINE, Letty! LOL!

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So is an ycleptomaniac a tall, besotted person with a compulsion for stealing?

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nah - a person who never forgets a name - and then steals it...

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Hmm, well that does make more sense....

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Now as for a Ferklemptomaniac, that's a confused Yiddish-speaker who steals compulsively.

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