[Dixonary] Round 3207: OG [Afterword]

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My definition for OG actually reflected real usage in Ireland, but maybe
only in Irish, or (likelier) not well enough documented in English to
make it into a dictionary. That usage formed the basis of one of my
mother's favourite stories, about her first day at a new school, where
the class teacher was finding out the names of her new charges. One of
them was Máire, from the west of Ireland, called Máire Óg to distinguish
her from her mother, and probably also from her grandmother, who might
well have been called Sean Mháire, though perhaps not to her face.

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NUN. Well child, what is your name, dear?

MÁIREÓG. Me name is Óg, Mother.

NUN(mildly indignant). Óg? But that’s not a saint’s name!

MÁIREÓG(puzzled). But, sure I’m no saint, Mother.

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

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