My mom and dad used folk expressions liberally, my mom being more guilty then my dad but by far the greatest offender was my neighbour who was a wealth of folk expressions. She is now gone and sadly her expressions have not been recorded but I am sure would have filled volumes. These I believe were handed down generation after generation. One of my favorites was used to deflate my budding but inflated educational ego. I would be explaining to her some great scientific break through I had just learned at school and she would look at me with kind but skeptical eyes and say, " how do you know that." and I would say I read it in a text book to which she would simply reply, " Ah well, Paper never refuses ink. Now does it?" On the same vein my father would simply say to me ," Do you know that for a fact Mr. McCoy or did some one just tell you that?" When it was said with that deep and melodic Ottawa Valley accent which was in reality a Northern Ireland lilt one could not be truly offended. I heard these expressions and so many more oft repeated as a child and a young person growing up and sadly I took them for granted but wished in my heart I could hear them all again. They bring back great memories of kind and wise people, I miss them deeply...
Cheers Ron McCoy On 2019-01-13 10:33 p.m., Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList wrote: Hi Listers, As a kid in Belfast, I was intrigued by so many Irish place names starting in Bally... Those who know tell me it's derived from the Gaelic 'Baile na', meaning 'place of'. My mother would recite with a smile, the popular ditty of the time: If you weren't so Ballymena with your old Ballymoney, I'd buy a Ballycastle for my own Ballyholme. My mother was one for such sayings, so much so you'd be forgiven if you thought she'd kissed the Blarney, but I doubt she was ever that far south. There must be lots of these folk expressions which have fallen into disuse and now sadly lost. Gordon -- _________________________________ Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon<http://www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon> Skype id: neredon Emails: gordon.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au<mailto:gordon.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au> nereda.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au<mailto:nereda.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au> _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ (_internal_name)s
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