Craic Wikipedia. This article is about the term craic.For the film, see The Craic.Craic KRAK or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland.It is often used with the definite article the craic1 as in the expression Whats the craic meaning How are you or Whats happening.The word has an unusual history the English crack was borrowed into Irish as craic in the mid 2.Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English.Under either spelling, the term has great cultural currency and significance in Ireland.HistoryeditThe word crack is derived from the Middle Englishcrak, meaning loud conversation, bragging talk.A sense of crack found in Northern England and Scotland meaning conversation or news5 produces expressions such as Whats the crack,6 meaning how are you or have you any news The context involving news and gossip originated in Northern English7 and Scots.A book on the speech of Northern England published in 1.The term is recorded in Scotland with this sense as far back as the 1.Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns employing it in the 1.The Scottish song The Wark o The Weavers, which dates back to the early part of the 1.David Shaw, who died in 1.Were a met thegither here tae sit an tae crack, Wi oor glesses in oor hands.A collection of folk songs from Cumberland published in 1.Crack On Foundation Farm' title='Crack On Foundation Farm' />Crack cocaine is an illegal substance that can be extremely addictive even upon first use.The effects of crack cocaine can be severe and even deadly.A glossary of Lancashire terms and phrases published in 1.Edinburgh published in the same year.Glossaries of the dialects of Yorkshire 1.Cheshire 1.Northumberland 1.These senses of the term entered Hiberno English from Scots through Ulster at some point in the mid 2.Irish.The Dictionary of the Scots Language records use of the term in Ulster in 1.Other early Irish citations from the Irish Independent relate to rural Ulster from 1.There was much good crack.Country Magazine which covered Northern Ireland 2.The Duke had been sitting on top of Kellys gate watching the crack.At this time the word was, in Ireland, associated with Ulster dialects in 1.Bs Software Engineering In Comsats Islamabad Building on this page.John Braidwood said of the term, perhaps one of the most seemingly native Ulster words is crack.In fact the word is of English and Scots origin.It can frequently be found in the work of 2.Ulster writers such as Jennifer Johnston 1.Im sorry if I muscled in on Saturday.Did I spoil your crack2.Brian Friel 1.You never saw such crack in your life, boys.Like many other words over the centuries, crack was borrowed into the Irish language with the Gaelicized spellingcraic.It has been used in Irish since at least 1.Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn Well have music, chat and craic, used by Sen Bn Breathnach for his Irish language chatshow SBB ina Shu, broadcast on RT from 1.The Irish spelling was soon reborrowed into English, and is attested in publications from the 1.Craic has also been used in Scottish Gaelic since at least the early 1.Irish or from English.At first the craic form was uncommon outside Irish, even in an Irish context.Barney Rushs 1.The Crack Was Ninety in the Isle of Man does not use the Irish language spelling, neither is it used in Christy Moores 1.However, The Dubliners 2.Irish spelling.The title of Four to the Bars 1.Craic on the Road, uses the Irish language spelling as an English language pun,3.Irish comedian Dara Briains 2.Craic Dealer.Now, craic is interpreted as a specifically and quintessentially Irish form of fun.The adoption of the Gaelic spelling has reinforced the sense that this is an independent word homophone rather than a separate sense of the original word polysemy.Frank Mc.Nally of The Irish Times has said of the word, most Irish people now have no idea its foreign.Criticism of spellingeditThe craic spelling has attracted criticism when used in English.English language specialist Diarmaid Muirithe wrote in his Irish Times column The Words We Use that the constant Gaelicisation of the good old English Scottish dialect word crack as craic sets my teeth on edge.Writing for the Irish Independent, Irish journalist Kevin Myers criticised the craic spelling as pseudo Gaelic and a bogus neologism.Other linguists have referred to the craic form as fake Irish.SociologyeditThe craic has become a part of Irish culture.In a 2.Irish information economy, information sciences professor Eileen M.Trauth called craic an intrinsic part of the culture of sociability that distinguished the Irish workplace from those of other countries.Trauth wrote that even as Ireland transitioned away from an economy and society dominated by agriculture, the traditional importance of atmosphere and the art of conversation craic remains, and that the social life is a fundamental part of workers judgment of quality of life.Critics have accused the Irish tourism industry and the promoters of Irish theme pubs of marketing commodified craic as a kind of stereotypical Irishness.In his Companion to Irish Traditional Music, Fintan Vallely suggests that use of craic in English is largely an exercise on the part of Irish pubs to make money through the commercialisation of traditional Irish music.Likewise, Donald Clarke in The Irish Times associates the change of spelling to craic with the rebranding of the Irish pub as a tourist attraction during the 1.See alsoedit abcdefghCraic.Oxford English Dictionary.Retrieved 3.May 2.Subscription required help.Fun, amusement entertaining company or conversation.Freq.Crack, n.I. 5. c.Oxford English Dictionary.March 2.Retrieved 3.May 2.Corrigan, Karen P.Irish English Northern Ireland.Edinburgh University Press.ISBN 9.Dolan, T. P. 2. 00.A Dictionary of Hiberno English.Gill Mac.Millan.ISBN 9. 78 0 7.Oxford English Dictionary crack noun sense I.Else, David 2.British Language and Culture.Lonely Planet.ISBN 9. 78 1 8. Crack, Craic from Hiberno English dictionary.Archived 2.November 2.Wayback Machine.Crak from the Dictionary of the Scots LanguageBrockett, John Trotter 1.A Glossary of North Country Words, In Use.From An Original Manuscript, With Additions.E.Charnley. p. 4.Dictionary of the Scots Language DOST Crak n.Dictionary of the Scots Language SND Crack n.Dictionary of the Scots Language SND Crack v.Buchan, Norman 1.Scottish Songs The Wee Red Book.Collins.Work Weavers.Archived from the original on 1.November 2.Gilpin, Sidney 1.The Songs and Ballads of Cumberland To Which Are Added The Best Poems In the Dialect With Biographical Sketches, Notes, Glossary G.Coward.Morris, James P. A Glossary of the Words and Phrases of Furness North Lancashire.J.Russell Smith.Chambers, Robert 1.Traditions of Edinburgh by Robert Chambers.W R.Chambers. Castillo, John 1.Poems in the North Yorkshire Dialect.Holland, Robert 1.A Glossary of Words Used In the County of Chester.Trbner.Haldane, Harry 1.Northumberland Words.K.Paul, Trench, Trbner Co.Sweeney, Maxwell 2 December 1.Radio review.Irish Independent.Francis 1.August 1.Over the Fields Life, Day by Day on an Ulster Farm.Irish Independent.Braidwood, John, Ulster and Elizabethan English in Ulster Dialects An Introductory Symposium 1.Ulster Folk Museum, p.Jennifer Johnston Shadows on Our SkinBrian Friel TranslationsSee, for example, this newspaper advertisement TEACH FURBO AG OSCAILT ANOCHT CEOL AGUS CRAIC.Connacht Sentinel in Irish.July 1. Can Cable Cards Be Hacked Iphone . Boylan, Philip 2.October 1.The Week Ahead. Sunday Independent.Friday, RT, 5.SBB na Shui sic is a new half hour series with the star of Radio na Gaeltachta, Sean Ban Breathnach, in the chair presenting music, serious discussion and yarns, i.Moore, Richard 1.July 1.Television topics.Meath Chronicle.Ceoil, caint agus craic is how Mr.Breathnach introduces the programme.Crack Was Ninety In The Isle of Man.Christy Moore, official website.Archived from the original on 1.November 2.Retrieved 1. 8 October 2.Too Late to Stop Now The Very Best of the Dubliners Media notes.The Dubliners.
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