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Lost in translation. . . so I was

We were lost – having turned off a brand new and completely empty motorway that cut across the lush green hills of the West coast of Ireland in a quest to visit my Irish mother’s third cousins twice removed. So we finally pulled up next to an old road sign, which confusingly said: ← Knockroe           Knockroe [...]

Posted on: November 25 2011 | Posted by: Joanna Rubery | Comments: 7 | Categories: Varieties of English | Tags: crubeens, dote, Gaelic, Irish English, Sláinte, syntax