The word 'paddy' is a correct and acceptable usage in written English.
The word is a nickname for Patrick and is commonly used as a slang term for Irish people. It can be used in any context as long as it is not considered offensive. Example: My friends and I went to the St. Paddy's Day celebration yesterday.
When patches of drying rice blocked my way I was unsure how to proceed, but smiling women in nón lá paddy hats waved me across, and I rode gently over the grains.
They work where and when they can in the lush fields around their village, Manchannlelli, picking turmeric and tobacco and tending the wet paddy fields.
They were put in the back of the paddy wagon, and if the car isn't driven gently, you get knocked about in the back.
It is a quiet, laid-back area with lush paddy fields and volcanic beaches, the perfect place to chill out in the sun.
He took offence when one of the teenager's goats strayed on to his paddy field and grazed on his crops.
Wading shin-deep, P. Venkat Reddy transplants dark green paddy into his two acres of irrigated, but undrained, land.
Now the groundwater is 20 metres down, and he requires a 15-horsepower pump to sluice his green paddy-fields.
In 1970, Fitt was one of a disparate group of leaders of the Catholic community, including John Hume, Austin Currie, Paddy Devlin and the Protestant Ivan Cooper, who came together to form the Social Democratic and Labour party (SDLP).
Paddy Murphy, from Dpac, said: "We're not against the Paralympics or the athletes, but it is completely inappropriate that Atos are sponsoring the Games.
Nor would the bookies have risked their money by offering generous odds against Norman Baker becoming the minister most noisily grapping with his conscience ahead of Thursday's vote – or Paddy Ashdown riding to Nick Clegg's rescue.
About five years ago, Paddy Considine started to ask himself a question: why wasn't he a very good actor?
