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The phrase "you're welcome" is a common polite response to a person saying "thank you", shortened from "you are welcome", which originally signified that the thanking person was "welcome" to whatever they were thanking the other person for, suggesting that no thanks were needed. [7]
Óró, sé do bheatha abhaile or Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile ([ˈoːɾˠoː ʃeː d̪ˠə ˈvʲahə ˈwalʲə]) is a traditional Irish song that came to be known as a rebel song in the early twentieth century.
You're welcome is a phrase used to acknowledge an expression of gratitude. You're Welcome may also refer to: You're Welcome (Wavves album), 2017, or the title track; You're Welcome (A Day to Remember album), 2021; You're Welcome! (Electric Six album), 2017; You're Welcome, a 1978 album by BZN; You're Welcome (Fireworks Go Up! album), 2004
Coburg, Victoria sign acknowledging that the Wurundjeri people originally inhabited the land, and containing the Australian Aboriginal flag. A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events.
Yinz is the most recent derivation from the original Scots-Irish form you ones or yous ones, a form of the second-person plural that is commonly heard in parts of Ulster.In the first- and third-person, standard English speakers use distinct pronouns to denote singular and plural.
A Welcome to Country is a ritual or formal ceremony performed as a land acknowledgement at many events held in Australia. It is an event intended to highlight the cultural significance of the surrounding area to the descendants of a particular Aboriginal clan or language group who were recognised as the original human inhabitants of the area.
The tradition is known locally by its Slavic names, all literal variants of "bread and salt": Belarusian: Хлеб і соль, Bulgarian: Хляб и сол, Czech: Chléb a sůl, Macedonian: Леб и сол, Polish: Chleb i Sól, Russian: Хлеб-соль, Serbo-Croatian: Хлеб и со, Hlȅb i so, Slovak: Chlieb a soľ, Slovene: Kruh in sol, Ukrainian: Хліб і сіль.
The group of people performing a haka is referred to as a kapa haka (kapa meaning group or team, and also rank or row). [14] The Māori word haka has cognates in other Polynesian languages, for example: Samoan saʻa (), Tokelauan haka, Rarotongan ʻaka, Hawaiian haʻa, Marquesan haka, meaning 'to be short-legged' or 'dance'; all from Proto-Polynesian saka, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian sakaŋ ...