Thing Not To Be Today: an angashore.

The Irish love to talk - or so I've found whenever I've visited Ireland. One of the best comedy acts I've ever witnessed was on a long journey by taxi via the major traffic jams of Dublin.

Yes, on the whole the Irish enjoy their talk, and there's many a phrase, constructed with care and delivered with charm, to be savoured. I think they must take a chip off the Blarney Stone every so often, powder it finely, and put it in the water supply.

Anyway, all this is a preamble to presenting the Irish word angashore. An angashore is a miserable person given to complaining.

Now, there's nothing wrong with complaining - a bit of lively and outraged exasperation enlivens any gathering of friends - but the misery, quite frankly, we can largely do without. Everyone knows that the urge to let loose in that way is a mixture of egotism and sadism, anyway.

A problem shared may be a problem halved.

But a problem forgotten about is...

...forgotten.

Thing Not To Be Today: an angashore. In Irish Gaelic this word is spelled ainniseoir. You say it (in English) ANGishor, the ANG as in fang, that is without a hard g.