{"id":2187,"date":"2004-12-14T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T18:58:35","slug":"more-on-the-irish-ish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"The Irish \u201cIsh\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Member this whole post<\/a>? About “ish”? The Irish tendency to say, “I’ll meet you at nine-ish, I’ll call you at half-seven-ish”, etc.?<\/p>\n

I’ve got another one. But it’s even better.<\/p>\n

Got an email from an Irish friend. He closed with:<\/p>\n

“I’ll write a longer letter soonish.”<\/p>\n

I find that BEAUTIFUL. It made me laugh out loud.<\/p>\n

First of all, it’s a bit different than “I’ll meet you at 9-ish” or “10-ish”, because … well, “soon” is already <\/i>a vague word, so to put “ish” at the end of “soon” is absolute genius.<\/p>\n

The funniest thing about all of this is I know exactly<\/i> what he means by “soonish”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Member this whole post? About “ish”? The Irish tendency to say, “I’ll meet you at nine-ish, I’ll call you at half-seven-ish”, etc.? I’ve got another one. But it’s even better. Got an email from an Irish friend. He closed with: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178169,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/178169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}