O'NO!!!

I'm officially sick of the "O'jokes". Using it as a prefix to any word does not automatically make it funny, quaint or Irish.

This is one of the many things about St. Patrick's Day (over here) that gets really annoying really fast; blatant overuse of something from another culture that is neither understood nor appreciated.

It's made me more aware of the other immigrants around me, and the different bastardisations of their culture that may be prevalent. But more about these at another time.

For my American friends: O' comes from the the ancient naming conversion of saying who you where from. Mick O'Neill translates as Mick from(lit.) Niall, but is more commonly translated as Mick son of Niall.

And yes, my initials are MON, not MO; MN maybe, but not MO.