Re: CHAT: NF accent WAS:Re: CHAT: Newfs

Clint Jackson Baker scripsit:
>
> Siyo!
> I was watching the NCAA tournament this year (c'mon, I
> live in Bloomington, Indiana--it was unavoidable this
> year!), and they did their obligatory human-interest
> stories.  One was on a player for Hawaii who, IIRC,
> was from NF.  He had quite the tale, as he came from
> this tiny farmtown, his family died in a car wreck
>  I remember well the
> accent--it seemed like a kind of skewed Irish or
> Welsh, maybe.  I had never heard anything like it.
Here's a brief Wikipedia page on NFEng:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Newfoundland+English

The Dictionary of NF English is on line at
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/default.html , but maddeningly
without the phonetic transcriptions!

And here's a good page on Canadian English, but excluding NF and rural NS:
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~lsp/CanadianEnglish.html

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