Almost certainly, your screech-in ceremony will include some silly phrase of Newfoundland English. The language is political, too. It carries connotations tied up with nasty stereotypes of Newfoundlanders. Many Newfoundlanders will tell you about the s when they were told to suppress the accent and talk like Upper Canadians if they wanted to get anywhere in life.
In St. A keen ear can hear distinctive differences between the accents of the Bonavista and Burin Peninsulas. It might be apocryphal. In the days before roads and electricity — well into the 20th century for many parts of the province — communities a few kilometres apart would only be connected by boat in the summer or dogsled in the winter. Beyond accents or terminology, what makes the langue distinctive and charming is the fact that when Newfoundlanders and Labradorians speak, you can hear echoes of the past.
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Mind now. The vocabulary is fluid. The lexicon in Newfoundland and Labrador includes four different names for seals, from young white-coats to older dotards. Marlene Creates, for example, captures the language of the natural world in her poetry and visual art, which are equal parts aesthetic and political.
And what wordsmith could resist terms like glim, a light seen across a distant ice field, or swatch, a rivulet of open water in ice? There is an onomatopoeic quality to these words that lends itself to lyrical language: sketch, for the thin layer of ice that rests on the water; sish, both the word that describes a boat running through slushy water and the resulting sound.
You can hear the crackle in brickle ice, which is easily shattered. Way ice is more straightforward, in that a vessel can navigate its broken pans. For her most recent project, Creates made an inventory of snow and ice words, and then photographed real world illustrations in Conception Bay and Blast Hole Pond near where she lives.
Like artifacts in a museum, she preserves these words and displays them for future generations. A joint venture of scholars W. Kirwin, G. Story, and J. Widdowson, based out of Memorial University of Newfoundland, it was published in the early s after more than two decades of research. The dictionary defines each word and includes spelling variants, but also offers insight into the culture, culling from both oral and written sources and including snippets of these texts as illustrations of how the terms might be used.
It allows the reader to envision the words in situ as they might exist in a casual conversation. This is helpful for the layperson as many of the words in the DNE are no longer in popular use, and others are regional, so specific that common terms in one bay are unheard of in the next. Along the southern coast of Labrador a floater is a migratory fisherman. He could also be called a roomer, as he sets up a seasonal fishing room to work from.
But a room might also be referred to as a station, and thus the roomer or floater might also be a stationer. Words like roomer, floater, and stationer largely disappeared from the vocabulary as technology progressed and the economy changed.
When the fishery moved from an inshore family-based industry to commercial fleets, there were no longer beachmasters the person responsible for curing and drying fish or dressers the person who removes the backbone, head, and guts of the fish.
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