We've decided to embark on an expedition (vacation) to the Vast North called Canada.

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@Attack from the 3rd dimension

There are a lot of Irish influenced phrases. For instance, the way they use the word ‘sure’, as in “He was completely lost, sure”. In parts of the island the accents are sufficiently similar that the Irish hospitality industry (hotels and such) would come and recruit here, since someone from the southern shore here could speak normally in Galway, and still charm the hell out of the tourists with their own real, yet essentially Irish, accent. Many of the other phrases are simply from Newfoundland and nowhere else, and you just have to learn what they mean.

Soon after I first moved to here, back in the last millenium, I had to go buy some nets from a netmaker located in Quidi Vidi (“kitty vitty”) which is essentially a small community located within the main city of St. John’s. I understood not a word that he spoke- not one word. Four years later I had to see him again, and I understood everything he said. I don’t think he had altered his speech at all in the interval.

Keep in mind that the weather is unreliable until well into the summer. It can snow in June. It can fog up throughout June. June is usually good for icebergs. In August the weather is reliable and warm-ish and the whale watching is excellent.

When I first moved here, I was out in the woods on Mother’s day and it started to snow a pretty hefty snow. I got back to my car and turned on the radio, to discover that a polar bear had swum ashore in Quidi Vidi. That was when I started to hear the Twilight Zone music in my head. That hasn’t happened since, although a few moose have wandered the streets in the last few years.

Its a great place to visit, and not a bad place to live. Eastcoastgirl is of course correct on the Newfie issue, it’s something that a Newfoundlander can call him- or her-self, but is potentially insulting from someone else. As a CFA* and a mainlander, I don’t use the term at all.

*Come From Away.

wow, there are more of us on here than i thought! Newfoundland for the win, just come and you will love it.

For the record, every gig i do in Toronto now the first thing that gets commented on is the dialect I won’t clean it up for anything

[GingerOfTheNorth]

@Attack from the 3rd dimension

And we won’t make you kiss the cod*.

“Screeched in” is what they called this up in Yellowknife. Been there, done that, nursed the headache.

[Sunspace]

@percussion

For the record, every gig i do in Toronto now the first thing that gets commented on is the dialect I won’t clean it up for anything

Oh, I don’t want you to ‘clean it up’. I find Scottish, English and Irish accents very attractive, and I’m imagining that the Newfoundland accent would have some of that…

[Sunspace]

@Phlosphr

hehe! I did just purchase an Octant at a silent auction earlier this month.

An octant? Is that two more than a sextant? And can you get one that goes up to 11?

[Muffin]

@Sunspace

Oh, I don’t want you to ‘clean it up’. I find Scottish, English and Irish accents very attractive, and I’m imagining that the Newfoundland accent would have some of that…

And then there’s the whole McLean’s sex survey thing form a few year’s back which concluded that Newfoundlanders have the best sex lives in the known universe.

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@Sunspace

Oh, I don’t want you to ‘clean it up’. I find Scottish, English and Irish accents very attractive, and I’m imagining that the Newfoundland accent would have some of that…

Obviously im going to score when i move back after Christmas!! Yes b’y!

[Satellite_Guy]

@Red1980

I must add the Lobster capital of the world to that list… Shediac, New Brunswick.

I have to second that; I grew up in Shediac, and I miss the laid-backedness that was prevalent there… and if you’re into those “world’s biggest” sculptures, there’s a lobster next to the bridge coming into town with your name on it…

@Attack from the 3rd dimension

*I knew I finally understood Newfoundland English when I mentioned to a friend that she looked like a certain celebrity. She replied “Scattered time people are after telling me that”

Satellite^Gal is from Newfoundland (Sout’coast), and uses that expression. For some very minor clarification, I hear it pronounced as ‘scattertime’, although it may differ regionally…

If you do go through Newfoundland, make sure to stop in for some fried chicken and taters at the Mary Brown’s in Deer Lake. I’d be willing to bet my bottle of Screech you’ve never gone into a fast-food place with so many mounted heads, including 2 moose heads with their antlers locked, and they died that way.

S^G

[Satellite_Guy]

Forgot to add; If you do any driving in Newfoundland during the nighttime, or at dawn or dusk, watch out for moose!!! They’re deadly, and with some of the hills I’ve come down, there, it’s hard to stop short, and it’s quite a ways to the next community.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

@Muffin

And then there’s the whole McLean’s sex survey thing form a few year’s back which concluded that Newfoundlanders have the best sex lives in the known universe.

Not much t’do out the rock, b’y.

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@GingerOfTheNorth

Not much t’do out the rock, b’y.

shakes head