 Many words that are commonly thought by "purists" to be "béarlachas" have been a part of the Irish language for a long time, and have become "nativised".True "béarlachas" is where the word or phrase is known to be English and is not felt to be native to the Irish language, just as in the English language certain French or Latin words and phrases are used with the speaker's full knowledge of their "non-English" status, such as , , , and .At the same time, certain words that are sometimes assumed to be from English are actually from Norse or Norman French, and as such are not "Béarlachas".