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Quantities of food:
bosca - box
buidéal - bottle
dosaen - dozen
canna - can
paicéad - packet
mála - bag
próca - jar
punt - pound
slios - slice
All of these are masculine.
Some of these come in halves also. Leath (half) causes lenition, so leathdhosaen (half-dozen), leathphunt (half-pound).
These require the genitive case (if the following noun has one):
an t-im - butter, punt ime - a pound of butter
an cháis - cheese, leathphunt cáise - a half-pound of cheese
an t-uachtar - cream, pota uachtair - a tub of cream
an t-arán - bread, bollóg aráin - a loaf of bread, slios aráin - a slice of bread
an bagún - bacon, slios bagúin - a slice of bacon
There is no change in the plural:
an t-ubh - egg, dosaen ubh - a dozen eggs
Remember that nouns ending in e or a tend not to have a genitive case:
an bainne - milk, pionta bainne - a pint of milk, líotar bainne - a litre of milk
an tae - tea, paicéad tae - a packet of tea
an siúcra - sugar, punt siúcra - a pound of sugar
Okay, this morning's statement of intent before I forget it: finish up the paragraph of PoI that I was in the middle of last night before awakeness left me. Add to/finish up the Arcana, code, post. Check-in, because I haven't managed to do that yet. And then line edits on that and maybe if I'm clever I can take some of my worksheets to work and figure out how to code either both of those. Although dear god I do need to. And probably take my netbook to work, come to that.
Game this weekend. Yaaay. I need to figure out what if anything I'm cooking for it. I wouldn't mind making another bigger shepherd's pie, mostly because dammit I want some more of that for myself. And I wouldn't mind skyline chili because I never mind skyline. But then I also have to clean the house, and, blaaagh. On the plus side, that is clean the house rather than unpack the damn house. And do some more putting stuff away in the craft room, but that's a whole other thing. Cleaning is so much more preferable to unpacking, especially since we're managing mostly to keep it clean. Though there are a couple boxes that need unpacked (the knickknacks) or put back in the garage (books we need to get rid of yesterday). Because that's getting really, really annoying.
Things and stuff. Shorthand for, I still should have more things to blather about and I just don't. So I guess that makes it time to get my butt up off this couch and put some pants on if I want to keep fighting crime today.
