Am from Saudi Arabia and graduated from Cape Breton University (CBU) and I can tell that Capers people are so kind and beautiful and very open minded. Honestly, I misses everything in there and no word can describe how good people they are. God bless you all and I really had my best time ever in my whole life in Cape Breton and I wish to come back for visit in some day...
@Emess_9025 жыл бұрын
Please come back my friend.
@michaelbernier81595 жыл бұрын
You forgot saying "I misses" instead of "I miss".
@GuruishMike4 жыл бұрын
Didja learn any Gaelic?
@monahalliday14414 жыл бұрын
That's lovely
@mikemcdonald80024 жыл бұрын
Come back. We can do the Cabot trail!
@mariendorf19815 жыл бұрын
I'm from Dublin, we also do the 'yeah,yeah,yeah' inhalation, she's having a bloody 'conniption', 'didja', 'j'eat yet', 'roaring', & she scoffed that down. Funny to hear that over the years these weren't lost! Do Cape Breton's do this on the phone?: 'bye, bye, bye, bye'....can go on a bit ;-)
@innovativeatavist1595 жыл бұрын
Some of these still survive in east TN...except it sounds like 200 years of being slowed down by the heat and trichinosis. "Djeat yet?" "Nah" "Yont too?
@emilystillwell70335 жыл бұрын
Marienkäfer it takes about an hour to say good bye on the phone to my relatives in Cape Breton 😂
@mikaylastewart31834 жыл бұрын
Yeah its Gaelic
@halensunday20164 жыл бұрын
I'm from Sligo Ireland and I was waiting for the Bye bye bye bye bye!! Uncanny.
@anonymousperson71214 жыл бұрын
Jesus yes!
@donalgeaney6266 жыл бұрын
Interesting being Irish that you can understand a lot of these words and I can hear the Irish ancestry in the accent. We still use a lot of these words.
@laceyallison6225 жыл бұрын
I always say I can understand the Irish accent and that I feel we sound alike .
@owencoventry24354 жыл бұрын
I hear the Scottish/Irish too
@mikemcdonald80024 жыл бұрын
we understands you bye
@LyricNox4 жыл бұрын
Why does nobody point that out
@nozecone4 жыл бұрын
I would say this is the more Irish-influenced accent, from the industrial towns where a lot of Irish-Newfoundlanders immigrated.
@pisspissdacatfiss55446 жыл бұрын
Every person in this video is either from Glace bay or new Waterford .
@p.e.i.man-canada-13726 жыл бұрын
"Glace Bee"
@maidenrulz736 жыл бұрын
Pisspissdacat Fiss what’s got 11 legs and 7 teeth? The front row of the new Waterford ladies auxiliary 😝
@902TwoStroke5 жыл бұрын
Ingonish bi
@sagejohnson24455 жыл бұрын
Pisspissdacat Fiss true
@sagejohnson24455 жыл бұрын
I’m not east bay haha
@halensunday20164 жыл бұрын
I'm from the north west of Ireland and this is uncanny. The way the vowels sound and the phrases I understand. Even the breathing in. We say 'conniption fit' if someone was acting crazy. The poultice. The phrasing 'ya didn' bring yer lighter wit ya did yah? d'jeat yet? Roarin' Scoff, Sin..I speak like that! If I didn;t know it was Cape Breton I'd actually think it was an Irish person who spent time in Canada esp the guy with the red top.
@TheBirdierouge3 жыл бұрын
It’s because we’re all Irish and Scottish descendants 😊 I was born and raised there but live in the US now. I’m asked Frequently if my accent is Irish or Scottish.
@lizreed77623 жыл бұрын
Funny, because Cap Breton is a community in the Scottish Highlands and in this area of canada they dance a version of the Scottish step dance and play Scottish music yet they sound Irish. It is so confusing.
@MrSimonmcc Жыл бұрын
@@lizreed7762 I think you're confused. Cape Breton Island is part of Nova Scotia. The Cape Breton Highlands is a national park within Cape Breton Island. The Scottish Highlands are on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
@denisegreene8441 Жыл бұрын
I had to laugh. I was born and raised in Nova Scotia and I remember being teased about how I talked when we moved to BC but I couldn't hear any difference. After watching this I had to laugh because I do say 90% of what was said in this video. I still do the yeah yeah while sucking in air but didn't realize that was part of an accent. Too funny. You can take a girl out of NS but you can't take the NS out of the girl. Bluenoser forever❤
@segurosincero40575 жыл бұрын
Please tell me I’m not the only one who recognized Tracy and Martina?
@Autumn_Sunrise2 жыл бұрын
I did immediately by their voices! Was so happy to see them in this video lol
@keypicks18376 жыл бұрын
I am a caper and I can confirm all of these
@HalifaxHercules5 жыл бұрын
However, "pogey" is typically used in other Nova Scotian accents, including Haligonian. "Scoff" is used frequently in Newfoundland English, referring to a large meal. I'm originally from Halifax, but now live in Corner Brook. The word "Scoff" is used often there.
@Basertac4 жыл бұрын
A great big “scoff” and a big “feed” are used all over cape breton
@ryandowling62884 жыл бұрын
My Dads from Baddeck, NS...he calls the blankets on the bed “the bed clothes” 😊
@nozecone4 жыл бұрын
Well, by the time you get finished saying "the blankets on the bed", you could have had the bed made.
@pammarchand15273 жыл бұрын
It’s so true...My mom would say... Are you putting the bed clothes on the line? Washing my bed blankets❤️
@harvidmoreton8173 жыл бұрын
I'm from the midlands (Nuneaton actually,) England, and it's crazy how a lot of Nova Scotia words either have the same meaning and/or the same pronunciation, like didya (oh, wen up tahn didya?) scoff, and haard. Large Scottish population (my real name is Harbison) and lots of culturally linguistic influences. Fascinating stuff.
@Hsalf9043 жыл бұрын
The “puck” in a sentence was bang on
@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil46773 ай бұрын
As a Scot I was fascinated by this. In Scots: -fleg is fright -pochol is to steal -simmit is a vest -breaks is trousers -thrang is stubborn Gaelic: -ceol is music -salach is dirty -clan is family -Doolich is being sorry
@handsomenala67165 жыл бұрын
Meat darts where have you been my whole life
@sandraburbidge80383 жыл бұрын
Absolutely hilarious! Thanks! Been a long time since I visited cape breton wonderful magical place close friend from cape breton loved listening to him speak! Miss that!!!
@Skkorm5 жыл бұрын
My gf is from Cape Breton. This video is very helpful. xD
@Irishitalian4 жыл бұрын
Some of those words are quite common and used over here in Ireland as well. Blond fella in the blue jumper, Greg, is simply 😍❤️..
@FirstLast-uj9ud5 жыл бұрын
My aunt (who lives in Halifax) always does the inhaling "yeah" and I never understood why-interesting to know that's a legitimate dialect thing!
@mikaylastewart31834 жыл бұрын
It's called "Gaelic gasp" because it stems from the Gaelic language. That's how words were spoken. Because we have such strong Gaelic roots we kept it in our dialect. I find myself and others do it even when counting
@kennawenna52516 жыл бұрын
I vist Cape Breton every summer. Every relative I have besides 4 cousins live there. All my family and relatives live in Canada, actually.
@dragonshivers28364 ай бұрын
Why is 'combination pizza' so hard? Its so easy youd be laughin! We're goin on a mission to get some combo pizza, by's 😂
@matthewschiavi73532 жыл бұрын
My mother's family comes from the Canadian maritimes and I'm hearing a lot of her vernacular in this... the inhaled "ey'yeah" included. She was born and raised in Eastern Massachusetts, but some of my grandparents speak still came through.
@SuperSenna26 жыл бұрын
If you guys ever decided to visit Ireland, you'd fit right in with us! :)
@Emess_9025 жыл бұрын
Good, my family are accendants from Ireland and me being a cape bretoners reading this from an Irish folk, gladly any day I'll be down with yas
@sagejohnson24455 жыл бұрын
People from cape breton are Irish ,Gaelic, Native , Scottish , and French and all of those combined make the cape breton accent
@Emess_9025 жыл бұрын
@@sagejohnson2445 unfortunately you are correct. Very correct. I have a thick Irish cape breton accent and it thurrally pisses me the fuck off
@nozecone4 жыл бұрын
@@sagejohnson2445 What happened to the English? Not to mention the Ukrainians, Poles, Chinese, etc., etc.
@crochetwithapril3 жыл бұрын
@@Emess_902 Lmao. Same. Although mines no longer thick, I had to practice Theopholis the thistle sifter for years to thin it out because II work as a public speaker. But even after leaving Cape Breton more than 30 yrs ago, anyone from the Maritime Provinces still say "Hey, you're from down east aren't ya??
@RealCanuckian6 жыл бұрын
I'm from the Annapolis Valley and I use almost all of these.
@Ryan-yz1tf6 жыл бұрын
RealCanuckian I think almost all Nova Scotians do. I’m from Cole Harbour and I use all of these
@HalifaxHercules5 жыл бұрын
Some of the Caper words are also used frequently in Newfoundland English, particularly "Scoff".
@icequeensamwich93094 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-yz1tf I'm from Halifax originally and I knew like a third of these and use almost none
@stevestruthers6180 Жыл бұрын
It was interesting to watch this. My maternal grandmother was from Cape Breton (Sydney area) and she moved to Ontario with my grandfather (who was from Ontario) around 1944, and I don't ever remember hearing a Cape Breton accent coming from her, or any of the expressions heard in the video. Perhaps she had a native CBI dialect and lost it after living in Ontario for a major part of her adult life. Now, my ex-mother-in-law, who was from Sydney Mines, definitely had a bit of a Caper accent going on.
@snowflakes1and22 жыл бұрын
My Nana's 98 from the Island. She is bilingual Gaelic/ English. She says 'Well bless er little heart." or when she is disappointed, "Bless their poor soul" Once she told me the only one that would marry me is from the corner. She thinks any Irish or Scottish child who can't dance the jig is truly damned. My grandfather was a well known RCMP officer. They took me everywhere many times!
@andrewjennings73062 жыл бұрын
Can you speak Gaelic aswell?
@snowflakes1and22 жыл бұрын
@@andrewjennings7306 No, Sorry
@DeeDeeCatMom6 жыл бұрын
Love it! I'm from NB and I recognized a lot of the vocab :)
@ryanmacphee3418 Жыл бұрын
I'm originally from Sydney river nova scotia but I'm living in Edmonton Alberta canada now for 16 years now caper I will always be
@mizzenmonkey5 жыл бұрын
Lots of those are used in Pictou county too!
@902TwoStroke3 жыл бұрын
Straight from glacé bay and new waterferd 😂😂
@7Serpensortia9 күн бұрын
Ahh I love this it has so many local talent 🎉
@dosmart6 жыл бұрын
Best kind of pizza
@burnyizland2 жыл бұрын
I'm born and bred on the west coast and we say a lot of these; you surprised me.
@ronanoloingsigh52513 жыл бұрын
They sound irish I wanna visit there now lol
@billjarvis58534 жыл бұрын
Lived on Cape Breton for a year, working in Donkin, definitely miss it, beautiful scenery and the locals treated me like I’d been there my whole life, I plan on going back to see everyone, wonderful place!!!
@canuckyukyuk91646 жыл бұрын
What about "caw me", as in: "Caw me as soon as you get home!"? And b'y? (As in: the song "Tanks Ma, B'y!"...it's on KZbin.)
@jptc1236 жыл бұрын
S'gowin-ahnn
@hopespringseternal70384 жыл бұрын
jptc123 na much
@spiderlinux6 жыл бұрын
Haha that's a good one, Roarºin xD
@JenniferJane784 ай бұрын
I have been off the Island a long time, took me way too long to remember Devco.
@benyedlin25212 жыл бұрын
conniption fit is normal english though. i heard that from my parents in vancouver in the 90s
@eathcookie6 жыл бұрын
Many of these are "words / expressions" are widely used in Atlantic Canada
@DoctorFurioso4 жыл бұрын
*inhales*Yeah.
@vwgolf19917 ай бұрын
A lot of these are pretty Canada wide and maybe some in the US as well. I grew up in rural BC and conniption fit was definitely used a lot. My dad would have a conniption fit watching the Canucks lose another shot at the cup....year after year. Have a bird was get angry, so a bit different there, didja...everyone says that, no? We didn't have meat darts but we did have meat bingo and meat raffles, usually for charity. Every logger sports day there'd be a meat raffle. I think we won about 40lbs of ground beef once. A puck is a puck. That's what it's called. What else would it be? We didn't say scoff for meal, but you could scoff down your meal, any homemade or improvised alcohol was a shit-mix. BC has got some good ones like faller - that's just a logger who fells the trees, as different from a chokerman or logdriver. Saltchuck for the ocean, muck a muck which my mom used to use all the time to describe older, bossy, usually sexist men that irritated her. "Now that he's the superintendent he thinks he's the big muckamuck around town and we should all cowtow to him eh." She used skookum a lot too, as in "oh that's a fair skookum deal on bread" or "oh look at his little skookum cheeks". Basically anything generous big or good with the connotation of abundance was skookum.
@anam50993 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 @1:59 oh my fuck that's allllllll North Sydney right there lmao
@davidmacdonald74626 жыл бұрын
What about a Krimco? Aka Chocolate milk when I grew in CB! Or "dear" I was going to buy the raisin bread, but it was too dear (expensive) so I left it on the shelf.
@beanstwo41172 жыл бұрын
Krimco. Yum yum
@MacEachern9026 жыл бұрын
ya missed a whole bunch bi, say "whataya sayin" or "rushin out" to a mainlander lol pure confusion
@maggieroderick99945 жыл бұрын
"Take note, rest of Canada"
@noahroangoldwing2 жыл бұрын
I needed this. I’m creating a character from Cape Breton for Fanfiction purposes.
@Anonymous-ex5uu6 жыл бұрын
Same im cape breton we say bye alot
@ItsHollowfied6 жыл бұрын
It's bie!
@frempy44264 жыл бұрын
Who knew Cape Breton had a name for the best combination of North American pizza ingredients, and it's called... Combination.
@onlinemusiclessonsadamphil46773 жыл бұрын
Excellent! In North east Scotland, where I’m from and is the home of the Strathspey. (My great x 5 grandfather was William Marshall) , we go ‘aye aye aye aye aye’ like sucking air out of a balloon or until the chiel’s lungs go dry. A chiel is a farmer or a country person. The spik o Cape Breton is braw. Mare like Scots and Irish then onythin!
@lindamugford55074 жыл бұрын
Love it, thanks for sharin, needed a good laugh :)
@consonantsandvowels1 Жыл бұрын
Tracy and Martina! 💜💜💜
@eziomaiwuh6494 жыл бұрын
I hope to be in Cape breton in 2020 and I look forward to having a wholesome experience.
@algow59884 жыл бұрын
Be your self, don't pretend to be someone you're not (a fony), and you will.
@GuidedWithLight3 жыл бұрын
I hope you enjoyed yourself there!
@poop52232 жыл бұрын
bro no lie, we got the best food
@DrAmazing4 жыл бұрын
This is like 50% things I never heard of and 50% things I didn't know was unique to Cape Breton.
@tnmoe-6 жыл бұрын
CBC waiting till everyone forgets PEI Encyclopedia, then throws this out there...
@stegomasaurus67376 жыл бұрын
Missed a prominent one: french fries are always called chips in Cape Breton.
@justben1936 жыл бұрын
Stegomasaurus no only when y’all have them with fish we call them chips
@zymbotictoot6 ай бұрын
The only two things I could add is a bun of bread and a good ol game of tarbish.
@Anthony_Spilotro9 ай бұрын
Listen beh! Ed dare now!
@Coolio-bd7vt3 жыл бұрын
We have a very similar thing to the “did’ja” in Ireland we say did ya instead “ya went to work today did ya?l
@HalifaxHercules5 жыл бұрын
I'm originally from Halifax, but now live in Western Newfoundland. Most of the words I recognized are also used in my home town, including "pogey". In addition, some of the words are also used in Newfoundland English, including "scoff" meaning a big meal.
@porko8825 жыл бұрын
Im the Niagara region and i hear pogey used, i think alot of these words became more common because of Trailer park boys.
@francisdoran89923 жыл бұрын
@@porko882 no these words were used long before that show come on.
@hanslamontagne Жыл бұрын
What about “bed clothes” hahaha
@shannondawn447 ай бұрын
They don't use bed clothes in other parts of the country ?
@shannondawn447 ай бұрын
What do they put on their beds ?
@whitneysmith55092 жыл бұрын
What about three sheets to the wind bi!!!
@GordiansKnotHere2 жыл бұрын
My mother's side is from Sydney Mines, Cape Breton (I've been told), they're all Scots. Justine is a total Smokeshow!!!
@adrianmartin57804 жыл бұрын
Back in the 70's up in No.2 there were a few sayings that were used by a very funny guy hangin around at night up on 3rd, 4th and 5th streets,a natural comedian this guy was,I thought he was hilarious,he had side bustin humour,non stop.For instance, if ya said something outrageously stupid he might say to ya, "I think ya better shake yer beer box there by'", meaning that ya might have a couple of empties in there,he had one liners like "ja hear about the guy who went up to Halifax....yeah,he bounced all the way up on a rubber onion! Rimshot..Then right quick he'd ask ya "what's orange lying on the side of the road?..a wounded cheezie".Another rimshot.. And Oh yeah,der might be a lingering scent of cannabis indee air too. This guy was really funny,hurtin funny.Oh Danny Boy,the pipes,the pipes are calling...
@amylouise66465 жыл бұрын
They sound so Irish
@mikemcdonald80024 жыл бұрын
we are
@waynemclaughlin60892 жыл бұрын
How come in the news media like the ( CBC) in Nova Scotia you never hear the news anchors talking like this in Halifax? Maybe there's some Cape Bretoners among them. I asked my sister who lives just outside of Corner Brook NL once before about the CBC News in St John's NL and why they don't talk like the cast on Allan Hawco's Republic Of Doyle crime tv show? That's what made the Maritime East Coast accents unique, it's different from the rest of Canada.
@CBCComedy2 жыл бұрын
That's a good question, it's probably a mix of developing a professional on-air "news presenter" voice, and non-locals who have moved to smaller markets to start journalism careers (which is pretty common). With that said, in my experiences, you can definitely tell the difference between NL reports, and say, Alberta.
@Michiganian8 Жыл бұрын
How long is this video 😆
@nightingalebou23425 жыл бұрын
New Brunswick says a lot of this stuff too lol
@messymason19846 жыл бұрын
That’s hilarious.
@acedelizo64304 жыл бұрын
I am in Dartmouth now and still waiting for my chance to say, " jeet yet?"
@jasandros2 жыл бұрын
All Navy Terms. Understood everything!!
@anthonynapier2887 Жыл бұрын
That language being twitchs and side-eyes
@valeriamontesr.88964 жыл бұрын
combination pizza is called toute garnie in Québec
@daveyandsky4 жыл бұрын
WHOS UR FADERS FADER!
@adrianmartin57804 жыл бұрын
Utube "Rubberbandits"and The Bull Mick.. they're Irish, its similar ta CapeBreton humour, like Rusty Cutlery or Embraced in Barbados
@iaincaillte33562 жыл бұрын
Well, an' now A'feel confident enuff ta visit.
@lizreed77623 жыл бұрын
"Roar-lin" "scoff" "Did ya" "Biff" "Puck" very common words in my town in Scotland. Actually, used in most of the UK. This just sound like basic English, I don't understand why they think it's a language 🤷 "combination pizza" found here in Australia where I Live currently.
@robertsteele9256 жыл бұрын
Love it im from a small town sydney mines in cape breton ns. Came to toronto in 2010. Friends say your an east coaster. Cause of my axcent . i love it. Now up here women calls underware panties back home we say bloomers lmao
@ziziscorsese94755 жыл бұрын
Robert Steele Nonsense. If you're from the backwoods , say up in the highlands deep within, you might call them bloomers, and you might be an octogenarian . Bloomers. Does your wife wear bloomers lol ?
@c0pyimitati0n8 ай бұрын
Hi, it's your girl Tracy hun!
@glynnL3 жыл бұрын
Sqwuzed is killing me. Never hear that one that I remember. It’s perfect though
@gotohellaaron6 жыл бұрын
@ 1:58 holy shit she looks familiar!
@seratonyn3 жыл бұрын
I got most of em.
@anthonynapier28875 ай бұрын
Yizz payin fer that? Er izz EEE EYE pay'n fer that?
@p.e.i.man-canada-13726 жыл бұрын
Thats fuckin right
@bido01252 жыл бұрын
Sydney mines is the best part
@kevinleblanc478 ай бұрын
Ron James should have done this
@jampuppy4 жыл бұрын
Did ja is pretty much universal amongst folks in the US. So is J’eat yet?
@fasulia676 жыл бұрын
They sound rather Irish. Were there Irish settlers there in the past or does their accent relate to the Scottish Gaelic community that settled there
@brennanmacdonald77206 жыл бұрын
It's a mix of Mi'kmaq, Irish, Scottish, English, and French Acadian.
@danconnor84226 жыл бұрын
More like all the newfies that migrated there in 60s
@az09638185 жыл бұрын
Most of them are Gaelic Scotts descendants. That kind of "Irish" like sound to the accents is a common theme in Atlantic North America. It has little to nothing to do with the actual Irish, ironically lol.
@kayo77835 жыл бұрын
lots of scots gaelic, my moms dad is from cape breton, his dad's family were scottish immigrants in the 19th century , tonnes of Scottish, some irish a bit of m'igmaq
@darcison5 жыл бұрын
@TheCrazycaper actually, in french "Novelle Ecosse" literally means "Nova Scotia". But the name "Nova Scotia" is latin. And it means New Scotland :) The more you know! hahaha
@shark619ify4 күн бұрын
Wow!! its weird seeing a dude and hearing Martinas Voice...lol its always been obvious its a guy but I never really knew what he looked like...
@terence55635 жыл бұрын
Girl at 1:58 sounds just like Bubbles.
@andrewjennings73063 жыл бұрын
Honestly I was hoping to hear some scottish gaelic, which used to be the main language of cape breton.
@jenniferc68685 жыл бұрын
What about “ walk on , bye “?
@vigo8942 жыл бұрын
Folks, you sound like Bubbles.
@komiccomik47964 жыл бұрын
Nova Scotian is just less intense Irish change my mind
@PolarAppleCaps4 жыл бұрын
Nah. Just Islander. In Pictou County we just mumble and use a bit of slang. It sounds normal to me at least. Lol
@mistym0rning3 жыл бұрын
I’ve been to Dublin/Ireland, and I’ve traveled around Nova Scotia & Cape Breton Island. Can confirm they sound 90% alike.
@tomasmcdermott68102 жыл бұрын
Its like irish slang and the accents are almost identical to irish accents
@phlarrdboi Жыл бұрын
did they only have 2 lipstick for the shoot?
@Reddog7944 жыл бұрын
Justine is right some fit
@luketracey32692 жыл бұрын
🍀
@Roddie9546 жыл бұрын
how she goin bye from a cape bretoner ehh
@HalifaxHercules5 жыл бұрын
Almost sounds like Newfoundland English as the word "b'y" is used often.
@comtaar224510 күн бұрын
What about Acadian French?
@Ochreification Жыл бұрын
They sound like Irish or some Appalachians I've known from Kentucky and West Virginia.