Many words spoken today by people of Wexford, sound exactly like one generation ago in Peters River, St. Mary’s Bay, Newfoundland. Such remotely and isolated coastal communities retained the accent of their Irish forefathers whom immigrated in the mid to late 18th century.
im from Wexford and was recently asked by a Canadian if I was from Newfoundland and I was so confused because I don't sound Canadian whatsoever, so I looked up what the accents sound like and I'm actually so shocked 😨 I didn't realise how culchie these accents sound!!!
I’ve visited NFLD , 18 times. The accent varies with region. The outports it’s stronger then the city. I find with every visit the younger generation doesn’t have it.
Our accents are getting corrupted by outside influence more and more. The more people coming to Newfoundland from away will most certainly influence the dialects of those they are around.
@@candytoo3729 Sometimes, people make a conscious effort to change, I think. I remember on Fogo Island that the principal had an incredibly strong Newfoundland accent. However, if you listen to his recordings today, you'd never know he was from the N.E. coast of Newfoundland. He can probably still do a Newfoundland accent with the best of them, but his accent is truly Mainland Canadian when he records. Lloyd Ryan on facebook or youtube. A friend of mine once looked at me in shock and said, "A linguistics prof told me linguists listen to how you speak, not to what you way." LOLOL! I do both.
@@russellsamways Particularly, if you are a social climber, or if you want to appear more educated, or if you are more educated, you will leave the Newfoundland outport accent behind and probably adopt a Mainland Canadian accent.
@@dinkster1729I remember teachers in school telling us to speak ‘proper’ whenever we presented to the class. Like instead of saying 3 in the Newfoundland way (tree), we would be corrected (three). Plus the influence from media, very few from my generation from the St John’s area have much of a Newfoundland accent
Michael have you ever visited the southern shore of newfoundland? Would be interested to see what you thought of my home town of Port Kirwan and also ferryland, Calvert, etc
@@jonfenns haha classic Irish "oh you must be xyz's relation". Everyone knows everyone. Good To see that even a couple of centuries down the line and across the water between us, you's still have that classic irishness to ye😁
@@joshoreilly4880 My Grandmother from northern New Brunswick who grew up in New Bandon, N.B. always told you the genealogy of anyone she was talking about. It was very strange because I'm from Ontario and I didn't know any of the people she was talking about. LOLOL! It's an Irish thing is it? Her maiden name was Jeffers and that's associated with Bandon, Co.Cork.
Omg, my dad (I’m from Newfoundland) told me that if anyone ever gave me a knife to always make sure to give them something back, even just a penny or otherwise I’d be in for bad luck. That is old Newfoundland superstition and for the the older crowd, that was nothing to mess with. Otherwise the fairies would be after you. So neat to see someone from Ireland saying the exact same thing. 🤯
Wow my maternal Grandmother was from Kilkenny and maternal Grandfather from Wexford . Neither of them spent much time outside Ireland. They also had very little connection with North America . This accent is practically the same and could not easily be identified as being only a few miles away. Of course if we listen carefully the O as in Out and about which is exclusive to Canada can be slightly discerned Kilkenny and Wexford are on the East Coast of Ireland. On the West Coast the most westerly of the Great Blasket Islands is only about 1700 miles from Fogo Island off Newfoundland. The Blasket Islands were still inhabited until mid 20th century . Many of the last Inhabitants emigrated to Springfield MA.😊
I enjoy hearing stories from the earlier generations. And the Irish/Irish-Canadian accent! Surely these Canadians who sound so Irish are lineage of Irish who immigrated to Canada.
But most descendants of Irish immigrants on the Mainland lost their Irish accents long ago. Not all did though. A friend of mine is married to a person from north Frontenac Co. (Ontario) and when he worked in Southern Ontario (Guelph), people would ask him if he was from Newfoundland. His son and daughter also sound a lot like him so the accent must prevail in North Frontenac Co. They are now in their early 40s.
I'm a Canadian in Ireland, I keep trying to explain to my Irish cousins about our Newfies but I don't think they get it. Showed a few people some of these clips and lo and behold if they don't understand what is being said because of the strong accent, lol!
You nailed it. Most of the people from the Cape Shore of Newfoundland (the area of the Avalon peninsula south of St. John's) were almost exclusively settled by people from Wexford and Waterford. Half the things in the capital city are named after Irish towns/things. No joke... there's a Waterford River that flows through the Waterford Valley and goes past the Waterford Valley Mall, the Waterford High School and Waterford Hospital. If you go further north you'll go pass Wexford Street and eventually end up at Wexford Estates.
What is white washing? Is she talking about painting the outside of a house? As in the chemicals( or whatever?) from paint messed with the animals health?
Famous story in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn about whitewashing a fence. We also have green-washing and pink-washing today. If you whitewash an issue, you are covering up the truth about an issue. If you greenwash something, you are pretending you are being supportive of anti-climate change issues when you are really not. If you pinkwashing, you are talking about being accepting of the LGBTQ+ community to cover up the fact that you are pracising genocide in Gaza like Israel is.
Many words spoken today by people of Wexford, sound exactly like one generation ago in Peters River, St. Mary’s Bay, Newfoundland. Such remotely and isolated coastal communities retained the accent of their Irish forefathers whom immigrated in the mid to late 18th century.
im from Wexford and was recently asked by a Canadian if I was from Newfoundland and I was so confused because I don't sound Canadian whatsoever, so I looked up what the accents sound like and I'm actually so shocked 😨 I didn't realise how culchie these accents sound!!!
culchie ???? there irish culchie ,, where the f,, k did you come across that makey up word ,,
That's the thing, you don't sound Canadian, but someone could confuse it as being Newfie
SUNNY DAZE shut it where you from anyway with such a vicious attitude and what you hiding from
Local man from county Wexford and my god its surreal , they sound more Irish than I do 😅🤣😂
How are they not from Wexford
I’ve visited NFLD , 18 times. The accent varies with region. The outports it’s stronger then the city. I find with every visit the younger generation doesn’t have it.
You are right my good friend. But the younger are losing it in the city but not the country-side/outports. It never leaves you.
Our accents are getting corrupted by outside influence more and more. The more people coming to Newfoundland from away will most certainly influence the dialects of those they are around.
@@candytoo3729 Sometimes, people make a conscious effort to change, I think. I remember on Fogo Island that the principal had an incredibly strong Newfoundland accent. However, if you listen to his recordings today, you'd never know he was from the N.E. coast of Newfoundland. He can probably still do a Newfoundland accent with the best of them, but his accent is truly Mainland Canadian when he records. Lloyd Ryan on facebook or youtube. A friend of mine once looked at me in shock and said, "A linguistics prof told me linguists listen to how you speak, not to what you way." LOLOL! I do both.
@@russellsamways Particularly, if you are a social climber, or if you want to appear more educated, or if you are more educated, you will leave the Newfoundland outport accent behind and probably adopt a Mainland Canadian accent.
@@dinkster1729I remember teachers in school telling us to speak ‘proper’ whenever we presented to the class. Like instead of saying 3 in the Newfoundland way (tree), we would be corrected (three). Plus the influence from media, very few from my generation from the St John’s area have much of a Newfoundland accent
Michael have you ever visited the southern shore of newfoundland? Would be interested to see what you thought of my home town of Port Kirwan and also ferryland, Calvert, etc
Fennelly...you must be Ray's brother?
@@harbourdogNL I am related to him, 2nd or 3rd cousin. We are both from port kirwan
@@jonfenns haha classic Irish "oh you must be xyz's relation". Everyone knows everyone.
Good To see that even a couple of centuries down the line and across the water between us, you's still have that classic irishness to ye😁
@@joshoreilly4880 My Grandmother from northern New Brunswick who grew up in New Bandon, N.B. always told you the genealogy of anyone she was talking about. It was very strange because I'm from Ontario and I didn't know any of the people she was talking about. LOLOL! It's an Irish thing is it? Her maiden name was Jeffers and that's associated with Bandon, Co.Cork.
Omfg they just sound like extreme culchies with a hint of Canadian
Omg, my dad (I’m from Newfoundland) told me that if anyone ever gave me a knife to always make sure to give them something back, even just a penny or otherwise I’d be in for bad luck. That is old Newfoundland superstition and for the the older crowd, that was nothing to mess with. Otherwise the fairies would be after you. So neat to see someone from Ireland saying the exact same thing. 🤯
stop lying
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Oh hush up twerp
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I'm from Waterford and she says similar to women here also.
Wow my maternal Grandmother was from Kilkenny and maternal Grandfather from Wexford . Neither of them spent much time outside Ireland. They also had very little connection with North America .
This accent is practically the same and could not easily be identified as being only a few miles away.
Of course if we listen carefully the O as in Out and about which is exclusive to Canada can be slightly discerned
Kilkenny and Wexford are on the East Coast of Ireland.
On the West Coast the most westerly of the Great Blasket Islands is only about 1700 miles from Fogo Island off Newfoundland.
The Blasket Islands were still inhabited until mid 20th century . Many of the last Inhabitants emigrated to Springfield MA.😊
thank you for posting ...interesting to hear
Omg I can literally understand both accent because my ears are trained in Northern Irish accent. Hahahahahahah
I enjoy hearing stories from the earlier generations. And the Irish/Irish-Canadian accent! Surely these Canadians who sound so Irish are lineage of Irish who immigrated to Canada.
And I would say they consider themselves Newfoundlanders, not Canadians and not Canadian-Irish but rather Irish-Newfoundlanders.
But most descendants of Irish immigrants on the Mainland lost their Irish accents long ago. Not all did though. A friend of mine is married to a person from north Frontenac Co. (Ontario) and when he worked in Southern Ontario (Guelph), people would ask him if he was from Newfoundland. His son and daughter also sound a lot like him so the accent must prevail in North Frontenac Co. They are now in their early 40s.
I think my dad's mother's family is from Wexford, I have Irish and Scottish ancestry Mercer abd Reid
That's the same bloody accent:-)
I'm a Canadian in Ireland, I keep trying to explain to my Irish cousins about our Newfies but I don't think they get it. Showed a few people some of these clips and lo and behold if they don't understand what is being said because of the strong accent, lol!
Wow.. Wexford accent sounds like old people back home on the rock
This is truly the language of Beowulf!
nah, Beowulf is Anglo Saxon of Danish Origin, these accents are from emigrees of Eire and Scotland.
I know, but it sounds very similar. At the time of Beowulf Danish and English were still the same language
@@kc3718 our make up is about 49% Irish, 47% English and a small mix (4%) of other.
I'll Irish. This is an Irish accent completely 👌
They sound like Newfoundlanders omg 😳
The last two women are Irish Travellers and would retain an older Irish accent closer to the 18th century Irish who settled in Newfoundland.
It's the other way around lad, newfoundlanders sound irish
@@marshall4298 the accents in Ireland evolved.
Totally Wexford /Waterford.
You nailed it. Most of the people from the Cape Shore of Newfoundland (the area of the Avalon peninsula south of St. John's) were almost exclusively settled by people from Wexford and Waterford. Half the things in the capital city are named after Irish towns/things. No joke... there's a Waterford River that flows through the Waterford Valley and goes past the Waterford Valley Mall, the Waterford High School and Waterford Hospital. If you go further north you'll go pass Wexford Street and eventually end up at Wexford Estates.
Remarkable -
The Irish accents significantly influence a lot of the Newfoundland accents
Be the fuck that’s quare good.
They sound southern Irish, this is so weird
This sounds like a Kilkenny accent.
What is white washing? Is she talking about painting the outside of a house? As in the chemicals( or whatever?) from paint messed with the animals health?
Yes, Irish houses and surrounding garden walls etc were typically whitewashed.
Famous story in Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn about whitewashing a fence. We also have green-washing and pink-washing today. If you whitewash an issue, you are covering up the truth about an issue. If you greenwash something, you are pretending you are being supportive of anti-climate change issues when you are really not. If you pinkwashing, you are talking about being accepting of the LGBTQ+ community to cover up the fact that you are pracising genocide in Gaza like Israel is.
Wow. That's a difficult accent to decipher.
Oh no not for me! My mother came from Co Waterford and I have no problem with their lovely lilting accents
Not that difficult if your Ireland. I'm a Tipperary man and understand they're lingo no problem
is in my arse hard to follow ,,, you deaf