We won’t lie, a few of them left us stumped.
Dubliners, how well do you know your city and how au fait are you with emoticons, which are fast replacing the use of actual words in text messages, e-mails, whatsapp conversations etc. and will soon ensure that the English language is little but a series of smiley faces, winking faces and love hearts.
If you think you score well on both counts, then you’ll want to have a stab at a quiz set forth by Eoin Darby of edestimating.ie, who has translated the name of 20 Dublin streets into emoticon language in order to test one’s geographical knowledge as well as their ability to decipher the emoticon-code we referenced above.
Some of them are easier than others and although we have included all of the answers if you scroll down to the bottom of the page, see how many you can get before succumbing to the urge to find out.
Answers:
- Wood Quay
- Dorset street
- Fishamble street
- Mount Joy Square
- Pearse street
- Poolbeg street
- Bachelors walk
- D’Olier street
- Hatch street
- Parkgate street
- Townsend street
- Wellington Quay
- Henry street
- Barrow street
- Anglesea road
- Cows lane
- Blackhall Place
- Bolton Street
- Shelbourne Road
- Wolfe Tone street
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