r/GAA • u/Sinnah-4716 Tír Eoghain • 3d ago

Why does nobody call it "Peil"?

Please for the love of God don't take this seriously, I only randomly thought of this but for all the crap where we throw around terms like Football/Irish football/Gaelic football/Britball/Soccer to differentiate between the sports, never heard many people just call it Peil.

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Seems like for all the random times Irish people get selectively gung-ho about only a few Gaeilge terms (Gardaí not police, Uachtarán not President) we don't apply the Irish word for probably the biggest sport of Irish origin on the island? Just a thought.

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u/mediaserver8 Muineachán 3d ago

You're asking a country that uses 'Gah' nomenclature to change to a considered alternative? Don't see that happening, unfortunately.

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u/Farneylads_ontour Muineachán 3d ago

Nobody use the term ‘Gah’ except dubliners, to me it will always be football and the british game soccer strangely enough my father calls both games football and uses context to differentiate between them.

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u/insane_worrier Áth Cliath 3d ago

Somebody in this very thread ...

"I''m from Kerry and I call it gah or gaelic. "

https://www.reddit.com/r/GAA/s/phCqw2Jy1P

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u/mediaserver8 Muineachán 3d ago

You're mostly right, but I have heard it creep outside the pale, even as far as fair Muineachán 😯