Love that "Paper never refuses ink …" Very applicable today with revision:
"The internet never refuses a keystroke …" Rick Smoll -----Original
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From: Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList <[email protected]>
To: Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <[email protected]>
Cc: Ron McCoy <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 6:13 am
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Irish Bally---ony
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...
CheersRon 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
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