P.E.I. slang: How to talk like an Islander

[@ronaldmallette]

I just caught myself doing most of them and I've been off the Island for years!

[@343mandy]

I remember all those. I am an Islander, even if I live in BC now. I love PEI. ❤️❤️

[@jasongreek2342]

Atlantic Canadians can tell each other apart generally, as well as understand each other even though our dialects tend to differ greatly... but the rest of Canada think we're all from Newfoundland

[@thecanadianbandit3841]

I miss these guys on the news

[@rachelclark7782]

I have heard in the past that a lot of Scots and Irish were some of the first to live on the island. I come from a place that also was mostly the Scots and Irish and there are so many saying that we share I think that 9 out of 10 of those sayings are used here also.

[@greggmitchell4173]

True, my relatives were some of them!

[@JaneEireann]

I'm Irish and most of this is Irish! Like the last one. I do that all the time 😂

[@karaokeprincezz]

I think I'm related to most of the people on the island... My people were Scot, Irish, Alsatian, English, Belgian, and Dutch (the Dutch migrated to New Amsterdam first).

[@colejarvis666]

Yup. My family was from Scotland Ireland and New Brunswick. Tons of family here and I've been here for a visit for 3 weeks now. Too good to leave.

[@mystosplosion]

My Newfie nan had that inhale yes. Very soothing sound to me.

[@CRCBuildingCo]

When the purple house is now brown :(

[@Zoey5374]

Anytime I go by there I still look for the purple house. Then I remember that it's brown now. I used to walk by there all the time with my dad, stopping at the duck pond. Not sure if that's the name that people call it, but that's what me and my siblings always called it.

[@tobeytransport2802]

We say Haich in the Uk too! And the inhale!

[@Spoopymare]

As an islander, I have never heard a single one of these phrases.

[@lancehughes4132]

Lol. You would if you really were an Oilander.

[@Cherri_Muffin]

I think these are more common the further up west you go. Most of my family is from Tignish and I've mainly heard the inhale bit from the end of the video in basically every conversation with them, but not so much in Charlottetown.

[@brennap337]

I miss them

[@Blackjackjk]

My father is from pei and has made us pick up these slangs

[@WILD4X4D]

Oh my lord I'm laughing, l was born on the island. Raised in northern Quebec. I spent every summer on the island. I still know and use most of these phrases.

[@1978Gargamelmk2]

I miss these two, made watching the news worth while..Also when youd meet them out and about espescially together it was always a laugh(Old Dublin) Ive said most of those saying except the 'H' and warsh but my step mother says that one.anyways a few more Zink- sink kwap-Co-op (grocery store) Git at it- get to it put the pedal to it-hit the gas pedal shes slick-slippery or greasy roads Slick as snot off a roosters beak- something that slides off a smooth surface like a screen door in a submarine- something thats not a good idea theres so many more Im only trying to remember ones Ive said but they come out so naturally I dont notice.

[@AndyB12]

do Newfie talk next

[@kriss939]

I came here for Caribbean islander slang

[@corgisrule21]

My gran used to saw "warsh" when talking about doing laundry or the dishes, but she grew up in Illinois...wonder why she did that the same way?

[@thomastherriault6199]

Gwan, lol. I use that one here in ON. How 'bout Sayurdy?

[@victorpena9824]

🤣 Thanks, Gents.. Wish I could make it up to PEI with the wife. Maybe after this pandemic has passed. God Bless us.

[@colejarvis666]

Shout out to any hughes' out there! Mainly from souris. 😂 been here for 3 weeks and don't want to go back home.

[@lancehughes4132]

Well, there's a Hughes out west here; has a place at Rock Barra. PEI is absolutely beautiful !

[@BitterSweetBarb]

We still have 'boat traffic' from Souris and Wood Islands...

[@quabledistocficklepo3597]

What Island? Prince Edward? That's my guess because I asked Google for Atlantic Canadian.

[@Mme.Mazikeen]

Quabledistocficklepo ummm the only province with the name Island in it...

[@Mme.Mazikeen]

Quabledistocficklepo but yes PEI.

[@sheilakethley5351]

I heard number one referred to as an “affirmative inhalation”!

[@Zoey5374]

I have heard my dad say turn at the old purple house so many times, but now you can't use it litterly because it's know brown. I always walked by it with my father and I noticed almost immediately when it became brown.

[@BitterSweetBarb]

It is not the same house either; the purple house was torn down, the brown house is the new one.

[@avsmacneill1738]

I'm an islander and I never heard one person say any of those things

[@mitchmacmill9765]

Buzz killington

[@dinanbimmertv1864]

ohhhh buddy I know I'va

[@garymurphy4598]

Not an islander then

[@connie1wilson]

Some of the idioms sound Irish. G'wan sounds both Irish and Jamaican.

[@greggmitchell4173]

Most people on the island are Scottish or Irish.

[@KylaGrace]

Yes and Jamaican patois gets its cadence from the Cork Irish accent@@greggmitchell4173

[@jonathanarsenault4455]

I'm an islander and live in kentucky

[@forgivemylaughter]

Never understood why my gf made fun of my H pronunciation haha I didn’t know that was an island thing

[@essenceofwow]

idk if it's just me, but I always said mirrow not mirror

[@retroplay5559]

You’ll hear a lot of those here on the rock too.

[@brookeenman6925]

I live in PEI

[@ericarobertson9279]

The yes my grandma dose that one so dose my mom

[@elizabethm3477]

oh man! my mom is a true islander hahaha

[@roshannaidu6313]

g i came here to see how to talk like a coconut aye

[@FunWithJohn]

(inhale) great job eh!

[@emjaaye]

What islanders never talk like that I am a person from PEI 😐😐😐😐

[@anjellalo972]

@Luca Silva but not all of em

[@Zoey5374]

I'm also from Pei, not everybody talks like that but I have heard multiple people talk like that. It all depends where on the Island you go.

[@willisryan4576]

magine

[@liamwelsh5565]

I find it's more of the older generation and people more up west as well.

[@garymurphy4598]

It's mostly true islanders that talk like that. It's how we know who is and it's an islander.

[@BigJohn-BigJohn]

Every (inhale) yes I do, the dog barks an the cat won’t eat... #peiproblems

[@ximenaflores8407]

I tried to do the last one and got hiccups :(

[@tanyalocke2332]

I'm a islander...

[@17PAT17]

My uncle always says “G’wan”

[@johnholmes4363]

NO FECKING JOBS ON PEI