Newfoundland Slanguage
Published on 4. June 2019
96 pages
978-1-4236-5227-4 (ISBN)
Description
A fun way to learn how to understand and talk like a bona fide Newfoundland native.
Before heading off on holiday to Canada's Atlantic seaboard with the notion that the natives speak the same English language that you do, be sure to pick up this fun pronunciation guide to nearly 300 words and phrases heard only in Newfoundland and Labrador. Like other books in the Slanguage series, simple English words and syllables are used along with clever illustrations. So don't be a jinker (someone who brings bad luck) or a scut (a dirty, mean person)?learn to talk just like a Newfoundland native.
Before heading off on holiday to Canada's Atlantic seaboard with the notion that the natives speak the same English language that you do, be sure to pick up this fun pronunciation guide to nearly 300 words and phrases heard only in Newfoundland and Labrador. Like other books in the Slanguage series, simple English words and syllables are used along with clever illustrations. So don't be a jinker (someone who brings bad luck) or a scut (a dirty, mean person)?learn to talk just like a Newfoundland native.
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Mike Ellis is a Web designer with expertise in e-commerce, online marketing, search engine optimization, and affiliate marketing. He's the author of nearly a dozen previous Slanguage books. Mike helps run a youth athletic league and loves coaching kids in his spare time. He lives with his family near Philadelphia.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- What's Up?
- Family, Friends, and Other Folk
- What Did You Call Me?!
- Verbs
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Grub and Grog
- Where To?
- Having Fun
- Birds, Bugs, and Other Beasties
- A Sailor's Life for Me
- Weathering the Storm
- What's a Body to Do?
- What to Wear
- Bits and Bobs
