The food was very tasty and we all enjoyed the fare.
None of us were adventurous enough to try the Chicken Tights…..
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Last Friday, we went for a meal to Sakura on MacCurtain St. – a Japanese restaurant. The food was very tasty and we all enjoyed the fare. None of us were adventurous enough to try the Chicken Tights…..
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Ten and more years ago, I would have thought that the long held position of the Catholic Chuch was such that it was the norm for children to take the Holy Sacraments of Baptism, Confession, Holy Communion and Confirmation – or probably more accurate to say that their parents decided that this was what should be done. With the anti-Catholic Church sentiment and the rise of non-denominational schools, my impression is that a reduced proportion of children are taking the Sacrament of Confirmation. I would not see taking Confirmation as conforming to the norm. It appears that Leisureplex has a different opinion – or maybe their marketing guru had a typo…. I spotted this sign recently at the Blood Bank at St Finbarr’s Hospital. It didn’t look right to me and my mind was in overdrive about how to structure the blog entry. That was until I went about checking the dictionaries. Despatch is an alternative spelling. I don’t think I have ever used it, until now. Something new learnt.
Last year, Micko submitted a photograph taken at Funderland. He submitted a photograph from their recent visit over Easter. Maybe it was tailor-made by Mr. Taylor……..or maybe not. I am not sure that Niall Horan of OneDirection anticipated such a name change when his marketing gurus suggested the life-size cut-outs.
Maybe those in Smyths need to play with some of their educational games. Or maybe, if the name was actually intended as a verb, the author of the sign was signalling their aspirations Some time ago, I wrote about the Departments of Misery in Ballinascarthy.
Last week, I was west and noted that the script had been completed and the Departments remain. One would generally assume that most people and businesses know how to correct spell their occupation correctly. But both cannot be correct. Chambers Dictionary does give the nod to the spelling spotted in Cork. It doesn’t like the Clare spelling. Recently, I was speaking with a fluent Irish speaker who suggested that the bar, An Bróg, should not be supported as it was grammatically correct. I suspect that she was not totally joking on this matter. As someone who is trying to improve my spoken Irish, the more one learns, the more one realises the different rules for ‘úru’ and ‘séimhu’ and others makes it a difficult task. As I understand a ‘h’ follows the first consonant when:
If I only paid more attention all those decades ago……
What is it about builders and spelling? I suppose as a customer, so long as one gets a room with a floor, a roof and properly finished, one probably does care if people call it an ‘extention’ or an ‘extension’. It shows my very limited understanding of marketing as I would have thought that ‘We can repair what your husband fixed’ might detract, rather than encourage custom, from husbands….. I always assumed that Emmet Place was named after Robert Emmet but I now have doubts as all references have been to ‘Emmet’ not ‘Emmett’.
Or, on the assumption that the sign on the Academy St/Faulkner’s Lane site is the most recent, maybe Cork City Council have realised their error and have correcting the spelling. Or maybe, it is just a further example of streetsigns not being consistent and adding a bit of variety, spice and debate to life. I am more and more convinced that there is enough anomalies and inconsistencies to warrant a separate section on the website. |
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