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Sat 12 Dec 2009An Irishman's Diary
BEARING in mind the success of “craic”, I’m thinking of launching an Hibernicised version of the Icelandic word “ kreppa”: meaning “crisis”. This is the term our friends in Reykjavik use for their economic collapse, which of course has been particularly severe. The kreppahit the fan earlier and harder in Iceland than anywhere else, although Ireland seems to be catching up pretty well at this point.
Which is where my proposed new word comes in. It seems to me that we have a lot of kreppato deal with in this country at the moment. We’re up to our knees in the stuff, and the Minister for Finance is expected to dump more of it on us next week.
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