Nine English words you probably didn't know came from Irish
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Nine English words you probably didn’t know came from Irish
It was picked up from the Scots and northeast English word ‘crack’, meaning loud gossip, banter or bragging. Craic then acquired its characteristic Irish spelling, and it has kept this since ...