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Ran across this site through another board. http://ngb.chebucto.org/Articles/folk-lore.htmlHas a list of Newfoundland English words and phrases, including (attn: Harry Potter fans) gilderoy.
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and (attn: crossthread fans) douse
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Dear Faldage: Is this a typo? I can't figure out what the meaning is. "bostoon; to complain hudly " What is the meaning of "hudly" I can only guess "loudly".
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Yeah, there's a bunch typos on that site.
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http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/d7ction.htmlThe above is the link to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, which I've posted a million times before but it never hurts posting it again. Two of my own favourites that have migrated into my speech (and for some reason are not found on that site) are: sook someone who whines a lot or acts like a baby, this can also be turned into the adjective sooky. Eg. "Our cat is a big sook; she just sleeps by the heater all day and then begs for food. Big sooky fuzzball." streel Drag along or trail behind, as in "After she came out of the washroom she had toilet paper stuck to her shoe, streeling along behind her."
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Bean, how do you say "chopped liver" in Newfish?
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>Sook, sooky
Thanks, Bean. Both of these are also in common use in NZ, in fact, I used sooky in a post in I&A a week or so back. I noted a few other words on the list that are also still in fairly common use here, used with the same sense as in NF. The ties that bind, eh?
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Have you read The Chrysalids? I just finished re-reading it the other night. In it, the characters live in Labrador (although they talk about Newfoundland), and (if you don't want to ruin the story don't highlight this) at the end of the book, end up in New Zealand. Of all the places on earth!
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I, also, found a lot of words that are either in use in UK (although some of them are either rare or regional) or would be understood by a fair few people of my sort of advanced years, even if they wouldn;t actually use the words. In particular, I was attracted to " gommil; a moron or half-stupid person. My mother used the phrase, "You gormless gommeril" to mean exactly that - usually directed at me, of course
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