Honorific speech in Japanese word "meshi", the Japanese equivalent of Sino-Japanese "go-han", is considered rough and masculine (男性語). The honorific "o-" is also sometimes attached to of native verbs (hence native "o-") to refer to a specific item associated with the verb, as in oshibori (お絞り、絞る) "hot towel", and onigiri/omusubi (お握り、握る and お結び、結ぶ) "rice ball". In rare cases, both a base form and honorific are in use with different readings. A notable example is 利益 "ri-eki" "benefit, profit (e.g., business)" and 御利益 "go-ri-yaku" "divine favor, grace"; plain "ri-yaku" is sometimes used, but "go-ri-eki" is generally not. The former, an everyday term, uses the usual
An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann County" by editor Thomas Davis in the 1840s as a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary, with the saying that "where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows". The dialect of Tipperary was predominantly spoken in this Irish county for nearly five hundred years until it slowly dwindled to extinction in the early twentieth century. An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann is the last remaining fragment of this dialect, with the story also encapsulating the workings of old Irish life prior to the contemporary era. Since the language was written down and able to be preserved, it was translated into standardized Irish