Brian Lair on WNYC and for our last few minutes today a low stakes debate on the Irish exit

sometimes known as the Irish goodbye. Basically this means leaving a wedding or some other group

gathering without saying goodbye to anybody you just disappear. According to Rice University's

database of neologisms the Irish exit refers to someone leaving a party early in an attempt to

avoid exposing how drunk they really are. Basically it's poking fun at this stereotype of an Irish

person who may or may not have a reputation for drinking a lot but the term is actually pretty old

dating all the way back to 1751 according to the Oxford English Dictionary and it wasn't

originally called an Irish exit at all. Languist Anatoly Lieberman explained to courts that the

original Irish exit was actually called the French leave coined by the English to poke fun at French

stereotypes. In France you might say to leave English style and in Germany if you leave without

telling anyone that's to take a Polish leave. So in Europe they are just passing this around

country to country but basically it all comes down to blaming what is considered rude behavior

on someone else's culture but our question is is it rude at all. So listeners we invite you to

represent both sides of this argument in this low stakes debate is the Irish exit is leaving a

wedding or something without saying to bite anyone the superior way to leave a party or is it just

plain rude call 212433 WNYC or text 2124339692 who does it I know people who are real Irish exit

fans they look for that opportunity to slip out rather than going around make the round say goodbye

do we have someone out there who likes to politely or or rudely as however you may judge it

just kind of disappear 212433 WNYC do we have someone out there who has never left a party early

and unannounced make your case and tell us how you think people should say goodbye 2124339692

or maybe the way you leave an event just depends on how you grew up you know

but here to help us with this as your calls are coming in and obviously we have struck a nerve

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