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From: "Candice Ward" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 8:02 PM
Subject: Re: Nomenclature etc
> Across the Sea, "cute hoor" as a term of endearment has always enchanted
me!
and also used as a reprimand for those who exhibit the anti-Irish behaviour
of displaying intelligence.
> When my mother visited Ireland, she went on a guided tour of Dublin that
> took in the Victoria fountain and others, which she called me up to tell
me
> all about upon her return. There was one fountain she said she never
caught
> the "English name" of (probably the Anna Livia, going by her description),
> but she'd made a phonetic note of what she'd understood the guide to be
> speaking as its "Gaelic name": "hoor-fromthe-soor."
>
> Candice
>
Yup, that's her, "the hoor-in-the-sewer" (nb hoor being disyllabic in
Dublin) aka "the floozie in the jacuzzi".
best
Randolph
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