We are all familiar with the way ‘words’ can be used in a different way by differing nations. We, Irish, will use the word ‘dear’ to mean expensive which puzzles our American friends; or the English will use ‘naughty’ and we will use ‘bold’ to mean the same thing.
Well since moving to North Tipperary we’ve had to adjust our language too! Who would have thought that moving 100 miles could mean learning to use language differently!
Here are some examples…..
‘the finest’…. now that is used an awful lot. It is used in response to ‘how are you’? It can also describe a car, a cow, a garden, a situation…. you name it…. it is ‘the finest’.
‘tasty’….. this took me a while to get used to! To me ‘tasty’ is used to describe food. Not hereabouts! A tractor can be ‘tasty’. A ploughed field can be ‘tasty’. A man’s work can be ‘tasty’ – be that ploughing the field or building a wall! It’s all ‘tasty’.
‘the woman’…. this I found totally insulting the first time I heard it used! But somehow you have to get over it – it’s not meant to be rude or insulting. ‘the woman’ … is the wife!
And the best description I’ve heard in a long time, I heard yesterday.
To describe someone who is mean…. ‘he is so tight, that his a— squeaks’!
A Year In Redwood 
That’s migh’y!