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Great fun was had up there years and years ago by a teenage me (hmm, 1994?) when I was visiting a buddy up in Belfast, and we decided to head over to the Giant's Causeway. Had to stop for petrol there where I was sternly told by his dad "Stay in the car and for fyck sake, keep yer mouth shut until we're out of here!"
North coast is great, Ballymena which is inland... not so much but not what i was saying.
It's kinda trying to understand what they're saying.
There should be a good yt vid there with a farmer.
I'm from Belfast and i can't understand it.
 
why wouldn't they use a v?

I guess it would be difficult to pronounce. You idiot.

I imagine that’s how it’s pronounced in New Zealand.

In South Africa, it's feeck.

Scotland has 3 x dungeons all with specific weapon types:
Edinburgh : pickpockets / actors
Glasgow : knives / broken bottles
Everywhere else : pitchforks / shortbread.

Where does the battering come in, or did you omit this because it's everywhere?
 
I've heard this far too often when using tinder.

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Scotland has 3 x dungeons all with specific weapon types:
Edinburgh : pickpockets / actors
Glasgow : knives / broken bottles
Everywhere else : pitchforks / shortbread.

I suffered the misfortune of visiting Edinburgh years ago and found myself on a tour of haunted places.

30 quid to be told by an American student who can't pronounce the city she lived in all the haunted places around the city.

Didn't even see one ghost.
 
North coast is great, Ballymena which is inland... not so much but not what i was saying.
It's kinda trying to understand what they're saying.
There should be a good yt vid there with a farmer.
I'm from Belfast and i can't understand it.
It's the same down in Cork where I'm from. The neighbourhood I GREW UP IN, I can barely understand what some of the lads were saying. (Have a look for "Knocknaheeny Rap Off" and see some of the fine upstanding lads from down the road)
 
I guess it would be difficult to pronounce. You idiot.
it's a written word to circumvent written censors. Not a new word to say aloud. You dont pronounce the place-holder letter as the placeholder exists. You pronounce it the way it's intended and ignore the letter that's written. Like how you deal with (astersisk)'s in place of letters. Or do you go around pronouncing a* * as "ah asterisk asterisk" when reading aloud. Additionally, do you read aloud what you are reading?

Otherwise if you're concerned about saying the new nonsense word, why not just use o, it's closer to the sound of the real word much more than y is. or if you're in the business of making up new words, just use frack - it's already an established thing. Why care about keeping the structure of the rest of the word exactly the same but swapping the vowel for one that doesn't even sound the same?

y for u makes zero sense.

edit: asterisks are annoying forum special characters
 
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it's a written word to circumvent written censors. Not a new word to say aloud. You dont pronounce the place-holder letter as the placeholder exists. You pronounce it the way it's intended and ignore the letter that's written. Like how you deal with 's in place of letters. Or do you go around pronouncing a* as "ah asterisk asterisk" when reading aloud. Additionally, do you read aloud what you are reading?

Otherwise if you're concerned about saying the new nonsense word, why not just use o, it's closer to the sound of the real word much more than y is. or if you're in the business of making up new words, just use frack - it's already an established thing. Why care about keeping the structure of the rest of the word exactly the same but swapping the vowel for one that doesn't even sound the same?

y for u makes zero sense.

I would ask if you are fun at parties but I can't imagine you get invited to any.
 
Scotland has 3 x dungeons all with specific weapon types:
Edinburgh : pickpockets / actors
Glasgow : knives / broken bottles
Everywhere else : pitchforks / shortbread.
When I was in Glasgow (again for work) everyone was very friendly, with one overly effusive taxi-driver eagerly warning me be to be careful with 'that accent'. Never had a jot of trouble. I also quite liked what little I saw and experienced of Aberdeen.
 
I would ask if you are fun at parties but I can't imagine you get invited to any.
well, if your idea is a party with the likes of old people who make up baby words instead of real profanity. Then no, I dont get invited to those. Or parties where everyone is just eating dinner together. no.
 
I suffered the misfortune of visiting Edinburgh years ago and found myself on a tour of haunted places.

30 quid to be told by an American student who can't pronounce the city she lived in all the haunted places around the city.

Didn't even see one ghost.
It sounds much like Windsor.

An American stopped me in Windsor to ask directions - she said something along the lines of "I know you were local as you had British teeth".
 
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