LAST NIGHT, CARETAKER Taoiseach Enda Kenny got a few laughs in the US during his St Patrick’s day visit when he uttered the following line:
Straight away, some Irish people were lamenting the use of the word ‘Bejaysus’ on the international stage
To some, it comes across as a bit diddly-eye and fake Irish – but there’s a time and a place for “bejaysus” just like any other slang word
What about when we want to say someone has scared the shite out of us?
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What then, bejaysus haters?
Say somebody is annoying you – in comes bejaysus as the best way to describe just how bad it is
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It’s a throwback to an older generation – who include bejaysus in plenty of real sentences that aren’t of the plastic Irish sort
No matter how much the haters try and silence us, there are still people out there that use it on the daily
It’s a way to sound pissed off that’s both poetic and quintessentially Irish
So we’re glad the world knows about it now – and that they’re aware that real Irish people say it
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Keep the bejaysus dream alive.
