Gallivanting malarkey

Colm O'Regan grew up on a farm but went to school in Cork City where he had to endure slaggin' about wellies and silage from wannabee urban corner-boys. But he was quick on his feet and on the uptake, so didn't let his head get flushed down the t'ilet by the bigger lads. We was always alert to words, how they are spoke and went viral on Twitter with @irishmammies. I've snagged his most recent published e-book: Gallivanting With Words: How the Irish Speak English (2025) although would be grand altogether to absorb it parallel-text as an earbook. But you can hear him innerviewed by Oliver "RTE" Callan on RTE [L]. Heard on the Luas [p158/468] “will wanayiz gerrup and leave the old man sit dow-en”, for example, really needs both the audio and the transcript. At the mo' only his book Climate Worrier is on borrowbox audio.I have to say that I really enjoyed this book: he's not afraid to use tech-linguistic terms and has not been superficial in his research but is laugh-out-loud funny on the…