PITCHED

By nfldinfo@mccarthysparty.com | 2020-01-05

We stopped on Newfoundland’s ‘Great Northern Peninsula’ so a guest could photograph the beautifully stacked piles of firewood lining the sides of the highway. As luck would have it, there was an elderly gentleman working this lot. Anxious for a break and an excuse to talk, he marched towards us with purpose; “Mind all the…

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PRETTY PETTY

By nfldinfo@mccarthysparty.com | 2019-08-01

When guests ask us how to correctly pronounce Newfoundland, we let them know we’re probably the last group they’d want to consult on any sort of linguistic matter.   “… want to consult…”   Most Newfoundlanders are still speaking ‘Early Modern English’ with the same dialects we’ve managed to preserve since the late 1700’s. Remember…

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SPEAKING IN TONGUES

By nfldinfo@mccarthysparty.com | 2018-12-13 |

My wife had just returned from Switzerland where she spent the better part of the summer with our 2 young children. I was working on the mainland while they were away so when we reunited all hands were anxious to get to Bonavista to spend some time in our beautiful seaside cottage (www.marbellacottage.com) , visit…

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