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·Dec 23, 2020

I’m Irish & I’ve NEVER heard ‘dropeen’ spoken my entire life! Must be an old world saying from a more remote part of Ireland! 😂

…zation is highly ritualized, but the way people do it varies greatly across cultures and languages. In Ireland, it’s relatively common to hear people attach the Irish diminutive suffix -ín, sometimes anglicized as -een, to the ends of English words, as in, “Could I please have another dropeen of milk?”

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