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In Belfast, if you enter a fast food takeaway and ask for a fish supper, the server may well ask "what's ur cawn" in a broad Belfast accent. To which you might reply "fanta". Over the years it has become commonplace to use this phrase as a greeting. So, instead of "what about ye?", you may say "what's ur cawn?".
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Clethorpes
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... It is great to finally see this common expression enter into the records. It is similar but notably different to "Bout ye" and "What's the Craic". This commentator believes that "What's ur cawn?" implies more of an existensial tension rather than the pure inquisition into health and mood of the other options. Well done Mr Flood who is fast becoming Belfast's leading archivist of folk treasure. "Keep er lit!" |
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