# Tell me about Newfoundland.

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 20, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108 "2008-07-20T00:56:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108/21 "2008-07-21T20:21:39Z")

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[QUOTE=An Gadaí]  
I had a dream last night wherein I was singing “I’s the Bye”.  
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Now I’ve got it stuck in my head. I remember singing that while working on a ship once (as an oceanographer, not a codfisherman) and my boss waited until I had finished, laughed, and said:

“sung in as pure a mainlander accent as ever I’ve heard”.

He then proceeded to mock me by de-dialecting and singing the song, something like:

“I am the boy that builds the boat and I am also the boy who typically sails her  
I am the boy who catches the fish, and then takes them home to my partner, Elizabeth, sometimes called Eliza”

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108/22 "2008-07-21T22:07:35Z")

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> Tell me about Newfoundland.

Well, compared to Oldfoundland, it’s…no.  
I can’t do it…

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**Author:** ![Satellite\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Satellite\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satellite_Guy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108/23 "2008-07-24T04:45:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Attack from the 3rd dimension]  
More specifically, where is Satellitegal from?

[Now all the jokes begin - Dildo, Spread Eagle…etc.]  
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She’s from Harbour Breton.  
Nah, no jokes, I like haing a bed to sleep in… 😉

S^G

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**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108/24 "2008-07-24T07:50:07Z")

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[QUOTE=An Gadaí]

Any truth to the story that news broadcasts in the rest of Canada subtitle individuals from Newfoundland in news reports?  
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Robert MacNeil’s PBS show, [The Story of English](http://www.amazon.com/Story-English-Programs-1-9/dp/6302892058) had some NF guys subtitled. That’s the only instance I remember.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-about-newfoundland/457108/25 "2008-07-24T08:08:34Z")

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[QUOTE=Annie]  
Robert MacNeil’s PBS show, [The Story of English](http://www.amazon.com/Story-English-Programs-1-9/dp/6302892058) had some NF guys subtitled. That’s the only instance I remember.  
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I did not see the show, but I read the companion book, which mentions my ancestor who discovered Newfoundland (or seized it or something like that): Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother to Sir Walter Raleigh. 🙂

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