Newfoundland Boy – Details, episodes & analysis

Newfies like their own kind of steak ▬ 

Sources: 

→ Coles, Terri. “Why Newfoundland Is Obsessed with Bologna.” MyRecipes, February 13, 2018, https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/why-newfoundland-is-obsessed-with-bologna. ||

→ Nolan, Dick. “Piece of Bologna.” The Best of Dick Nolan. 1975. YouTube, September 24, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2bgRLF8lc.  ||

→ Phillips, Kevin. The Bologna Cookbook. Flanker Press, 2014.  ||

→ Smellie, Sarah. “Beautiful Bologna: N.L. Restaurant Making Artisanal Version of Beloved Meat Stick.” The Canadian Press, January 10, 2021. ||

→ Red Island. In Pursuit of the Wild Bologna. Clode Sound, 1978. ||▬ 

There is not just “one” Newfoundland English. There are many variations in vocabulary and pronunciation and grammar across the province. But some things are very common. ▬ 

Sources: 

→ The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador. Memorial University. 2012.  https://dialectatlas.mun.ca/. ||

→ Dictionary of Newfoundland English. 2nd ed. with supp., edited by G. M. Story, W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A Widdowson, 1990. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/. ||

→ “NL Sayings Bars.” Newfoundland Chocolate Company, 2024, https://www.newfoundlandchocolatecompany.com/collections/newfoundland-sayings-bars. || ▬ 

SHOW NOTES ▬ 

Is home the place where you were born, the place where you’ve lived your life, a place that you love, or a place you never really find? ▬ 

Sources: 

→ “ Government Unveils New Provincial Licence Plate for Come Home Year,” VOCM 16 Nov. 2021, https://vocm.com/2021/11/16/government-unveils-new-provincial-licence-plate-for-come-home-year/ 

→ Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, number 6, 7 Apr. 1750, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, pp. 46–47, University of Michigan Digital Collections, http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004772607.0001.001 

 → “Tomorrow Land,” Mad Men, created by Matthew Weiner, season 4, episode 13, Lionsgate Television, 17 Oct. 2010. ▬ 

My interview with Marjorie Doyle, author of Mary Foley, Mary Doyle (Boulder Books, 2024) ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Marjorie Doyle’s site: https://www.marjoriedoyle.ca/ 

○ Boulder Books: https://boulderbooks.ca/product/mary-foley-mary-doyle/ 

○ Amazon.ca:  https://www.amazon.ca/Mary-Foley-Doyle-Unravelling-mothers/dp/1989417914/▬ 

Degrees of good and bad service exist everywhere, but in St. John’s at least, they seem to be extreme ▬ 

My interview with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist at MUNFLA, Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archive ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Memorial University, MUNFLA,  https://www.mun.ca/munfla/ 

○ Painting of W.J. Kirwin, one of the editors of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, located at the Folklore and Language Archive, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZaFYY8MQ46hB_IeRKlYE4Kv36QC-D7k/view?usp=sharing ▬ 

Newfoundland English, a puzzling complaint for a Zimbabwean doctor to hear, and my own experience with health care in St. John’s ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Canadian Medical Association, How Is Health Care Funded in Canada?, https://www.cma.ca/how-health-care-funded-canada 

○ CBC Radio, “Dr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia’s Journey from Zimbabwe to Newfoundland to the Canadian Senate,” The Sunday Magazine, June 15, 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-17-2018-1.4692469/dr-mohamed-iqbal-ravalia-s-journey-from-zimbabwe-to-newfoundland-to-the-canadian-senate-1.4707848 

○ CBC Radio, “My Own Private Twillingate,” The Sunday Edition, https://www.cbc.ca/nl/features/privatetwillingate/ 

○ “Is ‘Dicky Bird’ a Newfoundland Thing?,” Reddit, 2022, https://www.reddit.com/r/newfoundland/comments/ukn276/comment/i7ra458/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Welcome to Twillingate, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/destinations/twillingate 

○ “Twillingate Islands,” Wikipedia, August 23, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twillingate_Islands  

○ “Twillingate,” Wikipedia, April 24, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twillingate 

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I celebrate Mothers Day in person with my mother ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ Mike Ellis, Newfoundland Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Newfoundland Terms and Phrases, Gibbs Smith, 2019 ▬ 

○ “molasses,” Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd edition with supplement, 1990, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/#2921 

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Is St. John’s the oldest city in North America? ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ Joan Rusted. St. John’s: A Brief History. Breakwater Books, 2011 

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/ 

○ “List of Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities,” Wikipedia, May 15, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities 

Some notes about driving across Newfoundland ▬