Book 1: ANGEL KISS, Laura Jane Cassidy

[lady_schrapnell]

Nice start!  Am wasting valuable reading time trying to figure out size adjustment and image deletion and various other stupid things I've forgotten, so the cover can be seen (I like it), without taking up everyone's friends' pages.

Comments

[diceytillerman]

cod-Irish

May I ask what that means?

[lady_schrapnell]

Oh -- uh, hmm. Oirish (Actually, this may not even be a real expression - having a totally blank moment about whether it's just our family!) Do you remember the ads that used to be on TV for Irish Spring soap? With lilting music and beautiful red-haired lasses and people saying "Top of the mornin' to ye!". And all the villagers would have to be quaint, or real characters, you know

[diceytillerman]

Thank you! I do know what you mean, now. I didn't know the "cod" term. :)

[lady_schrapnell]

Well, good, so there has been communication, even if nobody else had ever known the cod term before either! :)

[dorianegray]

See this TV Tropes article for a fairly comprehensive discussion of the phenomenon. And no, it's not just you that calls it "Oirish".

[lady_schrapnell]

Oh, thanks! It wasn't Oirish I was unsure about though, it was cod Irish.

[dorianegray]

I've heard that term elsewhere too...cod anything, really. Not to mention "I'm only codding you".

[diceytillerman]

i've never heard of cod anything!

[lady_schrapnell]

I have the worst time knowing where expressions come from - not just the straight Irish vs American, but southern US vs not-southern, and things that are said in Dublin where I grew up vs much older sayings my mother picked up from my dad & therefore also Cork vs Dublin. It's a definite muddle in the brain!

[lady_schrapnell]

Well, of course! You know how it is when you start doubting something.