I spent time at Memorial University in the 70s, met all the Nfld accents, music to my ears, ever hear one from Bay Roberts or Upper Island Cove? They drop their hS sometimes and sometimes pick them up. Youre aed on a onda. This iPhone drops quotes and apostrophes on this site. 

When I was there, there was a place called Hibbs Hole, since changed to Hibbs Cove. I saw the Codco crowd about 1974, hilarious.

Nfld was settled from the water from the 1600s until about 1965 when the trans canada highway was finished. Before that all communities were settled in the bays and travelled by coastal boat. Settlers moved there from small communities in England and Ireland and brought their relatives and neighbors so the community retained the original accent from home. Since very few people moved in or out of these outports in the bays and there was no tv, computer, the original accent from home never got watered down. These accents retained more pure than those of the areas where they came from due to the isolation. Id say there are or used to be 20 or 30 Newfoundland accents.

Howse ya gettin on by?

-- Edited by DonSSDD on Wednesday 20th of May 2020 05:27:13 AM