Article: Not all it's cracked up to be; Famous Irish word might be double Dutch, claims linguist.(News)

Byline: IAN STARRETT

THE word crack - or craic even - could be neither Ulster-Scots nor Irish, according to a language expert.

People who claim it is either could in fact be talking double Dutch, it was claimed yesterday.

Ian Parsley, of UPA Global, a language consultancy firm, suggested that the term crack may well ...

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