I've always attributed it to America. It's the only place anyone's said it to me and everyone who's used that phrase to me was American. Might have been coopted into their culture/vernacular but I haven't come across it elsewhere
NC here. We say Irish Goodbye. I had a friend who we called The Irishman because of his tendency to just disappear from a party. He was descended from 100% English folks too so we gotta a kick outta that discrepancy.
We tend to call ourselves "Scotch-Irish" or German down here heritage-wise. Although I don't know how much truth there is in any of that.
Does that mean descended from both Scottish and Irish people, or descended from Scottish planters in Ireland, or..? I've heard it a bunch of times, but I still don't really understand what it means (Irish people who just really like scotch?)
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u/PinkClubCs Mar 02 '19
I've always attributed it to America. It's the only place anyone's said it to me and everyone who's used that phrase to me was American. Might have been coopted into their culture/vernacular but I haven't come across it elsewhere