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 Post subject: Re: Music!
PostPosted: Sun 14 Apr 2013 1:27 pm 
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Breandán wrote:
Tá sé ag casadh amhráin. "He is singing a song."
Sometimes in English, you hear about someone 'doing a turn'; I wonder is that an Irish expression or do other English speakers say that?

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 Post subject: Re: Music!
PostPosted: Sun 14 Apr 2013 8:38 pm 
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Saoirse wrote:
Sometimes in English, you hear about someone 'doing a turn'; I wonder is that an Irish expression or do other English speakers say that?


That sounds very Cockney to me. "I'll do you a turn" or "John's going to do us a turn next."

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