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Originally Posted by Niamh.
Doesn't sound offensive?
"boy" is used in the Cork dialect a lot actually, you can guarantee if someone from another Irish county is doing the Cork accent, they will add "boy" on to the end of the sentence  |
It's not that the word is offensive, it's a word Celtic fans often use to refer to themselves/the team ("The Bhoys") and he thought that because I used it, I must be a Celtic fan, and thus Catholic
. Which is the part he clearly found offensive. Playing anonymous internet Scrabble with a Catholic
.