Diana from Tucson, Arizona, reports that when she was young, her Irish grandmother would chase her and her misbehaving siblings around the house yelling, “You omadhauns!” Also spelled amadán, this word of Celtic origin means “fool” or “idiot” or...
Here’s the kind of riddle they were telling more than a century ago: “The lazy schoolboy hates my name, yet eats me every day. But those who seek scholastic fame to hunt me never delay.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Boogieman...
Macakeneatit n.— «Scots are known in England as the “Macakeneatits” because they want thie cake while eating England’s.» —“Rangers, Celtic and the question of survival in the English Premiership” by Stephen Gash Sportingo Mar. 5, 2009. (source:...