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Article: Not all it's cracked up to be; Famous Irish word might be double Dutch, claims linguist.(News)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- August 27, 2003
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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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