irish translations

[Nicola McIntosh]

hi folks 😀

need to find out the irish for;

ladies gents toilets

thanks

nik

[Shane Drew]

wee women… wee men?

sorry, I’ll get me coat…. 😕

[Brian Little]

no Shane thats Dundonians……(people from Dundee)….gos back to the days of the jute mills when they had to go in between the machines…stunted there growth 😀 😀 😳 😳

[Shane Drew]

:lol1:

why not just use the universal language…. sheilas and blokes!

[Brian Little]

mmm niks not taking the bate shane …well have to cast out further 😀

[Nicola McIntosh]

ha-ha guys 😀

i have tried google…but got nothing, any help please its for a job today, which ed has just told me about this morning…so major domestic on the horizon 😮

thanks

nik

[Brian Little]

ill get it for you Nik i know a few irish speakers

[Brian Little]

ill know buy 11 Nik ok ?

[Nicola McIntosh]

cheers brian 😀

i need all three

ladies gents & toilets 😀

thanks
nik

[Marcella Ross]

Nik

this may help. I’ve typed in ‘Ladies’ and it’s given me the translation. It will do single word translations. Perhaps this might help.

http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary

[Marcella Ross]

maybe not…. bloody confusing !! 😕

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Marcella:

maybe not…. bloody confusing !! 😕

thats the one i was using marcella….. 😕 lost me too 😀

nik

[Harry Cleary]

Mna – Women
Fir – Gents
Leitreas- Toilets
I cant put the fadas on here, there is one over the i in fir, A fada is a – sloping upwards from left to right if that makes sense.

Hope this is some help

[Harry Cleary]

Sorry Nicola,
The fada is over the ‘a’ in Mna, not the ‘i’ in Fir, if you want to use a sentence with those words the spelling would change, get back to me and I can give an expert a ring and get the proper translation

[Nicola McIntosh]

thanks a million 😀

nik

[Debbie Astle]

Nik

Gents is on this one but not ladies or womens!

http://www.hoganstand.com/general/ident … nary/g.htm

Debbie

[Brian Little]

your sorted then nik ?

[Nicola McIntosh]

yep thanks anyway brian 😀

nik

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Debbie Astle:

http://www.hoganstand.com/general/ident … nary/g.htm

i’ll keep the link anyway debbie cheers 😀

nik

[Jill Marie Welsh]

To get the accented letters, (I’ll use é as an example)
go to START
RUN
Type in charmap
a little screen comes up listing all the characters in any given alphabet
on your system (you may have to scroll font names)
and it tells you the numeric codes for alternate letters.
Such as é = (hold down ALT key while typing 130)
If you can’t find a character map in your system (I have Win98SE)
type it into Google, there are some good free charmaps that are easier to see than the Windows one.
Love…..Jill
PS
I find it funny that you will NEVER see “Toilets” here on a directional sign….
far too “vulgar” for us Yanks.
Ours say Restrooms, the Canadians’ say Washrooms.

[Fran Hollywood]

Nik

using Alt Gr and e gives you a fada é, works on á and í.

As Dimension said fada over the á in Mná. He omitted to tell you that they are also called “the jacks”

What are doing …. planning a pub crawl in Ireland and you want to make sure you get the right jack’s 😳

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote foamcutter:

What are doing …. planning a pub crawl in Ireland and you want to make sure you get the right jack’s 😳

ye i wish it was….. 😀 no it was for a local pub who have made it all irish…so i sent ed (after our major domestic with a brush up his nose) to go and signwrite the lettering the guy wanted in the pub….he never got back until after 9……i wonder why 😉

thanks for the info i got it eventually 😉

nik

[Fran Hollywood]

Nik, what do expect ………… it bound to take longer when his brush is up his nose…… and two pints in each hand. Never mind the fact he had to get his head around a foreign language. 😉

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote foamcutter:

Nik, what do expect ………… it bound to take longer when his brush is up his nose…… and two pints in each hand. Never mind the fact he had to get his head around a foreign language. 😉

yeh thats why the jobs still not finished yet….. :lol1: :lol1:

nik

[David Rowland]

I suspect “Mna” must have taken a while to spell, particuly on a glass door! :lol1:

[Lynn Normington]

quote :

ye i wish it was….. no it was for a local pub who have made it all irish…

in scotland will you be there opening nite (:)

Lynn

[Nicola McIntosh]

quote Lynn:

quote :

ye i wish it was….. no it was for a local pub who have made it all irish…
in scotland will you be there opening nite (:)
Lynn

i wont be lynn tomorrow night…….but ed will be no doubt…with his cauliflower ear as well 😉

nik

[Shane Drew]

quote Jill Marie Welsh:

I find it funny that you will NEVER see “Toilets” here on a directional sign….
far too “vulgar” for us Yanks.
Ours say Restrooms, the Canadians’ say Washrooms.

Never came to terms with ‘restrooms’ when we were in the states. Restroom implies to me that you go to relax, sort of like a ‘parents retreat’ sort of thing. Washroom implies bathroom here.

some pubs here just call it a ‘loo’ although toilets is the norm. Some of our theme parks use restroom for the parents with babies, especially the american owned ones, and you start to see ‘guest room’ appearing in some shopping centers for the changing of nappies.

Funny how different nationalities have different views on things. Australians are acknowledged as crude and vulgar anyway, so I suppose toilet probably figures in our lingo… The japanese are usually the most embarrased when it comes to meeting the average extraverted aussie.

[David Rowland]

a ‘guest room’ is normally a room within a house for friends to sleep.

I thought in Aus, that toilets would be worded “dunnie” and the ‘ladies’ termed “Shelias” or should I set light to the cheap Crocodile Dundee movies now?

[Shane Drew]

quote Dave Rowland:

a ‘guest room’ is normally a room within a house for friends to sleep.

I thought in Aus, that toilets would be worded “dunnie” and the ‘ladies’ termed “Shelias” or should I set light to the cheap Crocodile Dundee movies now?

That is a spare room here mate

Sheilas and fellas are found in the working class pubs Dave, Female and Male in the more upper class pubs, the ones that insist on the blokes wearing a shirt and shoes instead of thongs (for the feet) and blue singlets. Blokes that wear thongs (clothing) drink at a different establishment altogether 😳

Dunny is reserved for football grounds, motor races, or anywhere that blokes meet. You will not find many ‘sheilas’ refering to a ‘loo’ as a ‘dunny’ unless they are truck drivers or farming stock.

For what its worth, a sheila that calls the loo a dunny would not drink at the same establishment as a bloke that wears a thong (clothing) either :lol1: