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Dave@davebrowne.bsky.social |
Might also be a little class dependent. But "I do be..." was something we said when I was growing up there. Irish has 2 tenses for "to be" - tá and bíonn. Bíonn is the habitual one (it sounds like Be On) so the thought is when Irish was banned we replaced bíonn with be in English.
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Bridget Copley PhD
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Sorry, I didn't realize you were Irish! There I go teaching my grandmother to suck eggs. 😂 That's so interesting. It makes me wonder about other areas of Celtic / English interaction, like how that plays out in Scots and in the west of England.
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