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Laura Grainger

Insults that only make sense if you grew up in Northern Ireland

Here in Northern Ireland, we have our own spake.

English is the primary language spoken here. Yet our day-to-day conversations are littered with a variety of other words and phrases that stem from the Irish language and Ulster Scots.

This means that we linguistically overlap with the Republic of Ireland, England and Scotland. But there's also words and phrases completely unique to us that you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

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