Jorge

Bawbag tbh

retired_susan mcdonald

du bist ein miexer

or something

retired_kellynew1212

When I was in Spain we were fighting with these Spanish skater kids, they seemed to be putting there hands behind there bums and munching mid-air.. we later learned that it meant You eat **** and I was reading 4-4-2 and it interviewed McMenamin, when he played in Madrid and he said the biggest insult there was You eat ****, you eat pig **** etc etc.

pugsly13

You googley-eyed Subelick
You couldn't hurl spuds to hungry ducks
You haven't the hands to wipe your arse with
You couldn't get a kick in a horse-box....

All local lingo from my home town

retired_velvet01

MACHOD

Bomberman

"chav" and "liberal" are both up there

retired_princess160

(= wanker)

retired_linton_justin

Arent there some areas in the UK or Ireland where tw@t is considered more of a swear word than c**t? Or have i just completely made that up?

retired_bemesel

Being called a twit is deeply offensive.

retired_boy_0429

I'd guess it would come out something like "Shay-ser-veen", which isn't too far off Josefine. I know "S" is sometimes "sh" in Irish, and "mh" is something like "v", so it does sort of make sense.

But your're right, in general Irish spelling seems even worse than English. The basic rule seems to be to ignore half the consonants and then add extra vowels until they outnumber the consonants at least 3 to 2. I think it's a case of the pronunciation having changed drastically in the time since the spelling was standardised.