Top ten Irish expressions an American picked up living there

I grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania, here in the U.S. Many people here are descended from the Italian, Irish, and Polish immigrants who came here to work in the coal mines. Here, the plural is youse, colloquially. "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph" I've heard, and we also drop a lot of our last consonants. Dis (this), dat (that), and dose (those) are also common among original inhabitants of this small city. And that's just a small representation!

I am from Pittsburgh pennsylvania and we have our own slang. yunz is a word we all use in pittsburgh. and when I was visiting with some friends from scottland they used the same word yenz. I thought that was great. means all of you. and Pittsburgers also say pop for soda pop because a soda in Pittsburgh is pop with icecream. and for rubberbands we say gumbands. I think its nice to hear other countries and even states use different slang for things. like one day I was at bingo here in Ireland and this one guy won 3 times and when he was going to collect his money someone said your takin the piss now they told him. I laughed and they said it meant they were like taking advantage. and thats another one they use here is the word like.. (you know its like) .. and every other word has the word like . lol and some say before they start to talk they say(comhere) they want your attention..lol and when they are telling you something and are talking about someone they would say his name in the beginning then they would say your man through out the conversation. I used to say what man till I learned he was the one they were talking about. or they would say (your one) meaning the person they are talking about.and knackered means tired and knackers is what Americans call gypseys. (sorry if my spelling is off) and row ( pronounced rowl) is a spat or argument.

I am an American living in Ireland for last 7 years and these are ones I have picked up...what about eejut meaning(idiot)...and one I use is your grand or thats grand meaning (ok or thats alright). omadawn meaning (total fool)I love the way the Irish talk but some would say its lazy because they leave out last letters sometimes.like heart they say har.and better they say be er . and for thyroid they say tyroid and done say the th .. like bat for bath or tankyou for thankyou. and tird for third. got to love em xo

JamieLM - The expression "yous" is used primarily in and around New York. I heard people saying it when I was there two weeks ago. "Ya'll" would be found in the south, of course, and "you guys" is common elsewhere in the USA. I have also heard a unique one in the Smokey Mountains of Tennessee, that I can only attempt to spell as "yoons." I was told it was the concatenation of the grammatical train wreck "you ones."

@Lettrim666 "Bollocks is an anglo-saxon word. Did you forget to do your background research Ivan?" And even when the origin of the expression might be British (e.g. bollocks, which dates back as far as the Wycliffe Bible of 1382), the Irish have a way of making it their own.

Bollocks me hole

What happened to " yer grand". that covers so much ground itself or what about tis herself, or tis himself. and the most powerful of all.. FFSake!

Why does Irish Central insist on regularly regaling us with these corny articles on supposedly picturesque speech. As leitrim points out below, in many cases there's nothing specifically Irish about these phrases. In fact, I remember the last time I was in Ireland some idiot tried to tell me that "Cheers mate" was an Irish expression. It is now--but it was imported in the past few years from London!

The Puritans used Ye, need I say more?

The knackers yard was where horses were sent when they were past their prime and no longer able to work hence the term Knackered. Bollocks is just one the deadliest words you'll hear in Dublin. It's just a massey great adaptable expression with multiple uses: me bollocks!, ye bollcks!, that's bollocks, it's bolloxed!....the list is endless!

Leitrim666...Isn't the whole articl icle about Hiberno-English expression ssions (English) and not Gaeilge.

Ah yes, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!" --how often we heard my mother use that, and knew we were in for it.

The phrases may be Irish but the words bollocks, dead, brilliant and knackered are used much more widely in the English speaking world than just in Ireland. Bollocks is an anglo-saxon word. Did you forget to do your background research Ivan?

I'm from the Midwest and have friends and family in the South and the West and I've never heard anyone say "youse." It would be "you guys." "Grand" is almost never used to describe anything. As an American, I'm on vacation and never "on holiday."

A couple of my favorites are: He's the head off of ye...when someone looks like you. Also, "counting the sleeps" until the big event. So much easier for a child to understand. Then there's also "good man yourself." what a lovely way to applaud someone's efforts.