When Two Irish Lads Meet a Newfoundlander

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[@tylernorris7945]

You need to hear an Old school islander from Bell Island( Wabana) Newfoundland.

[@coltonbarnes7861]

You gotta meet jhawk23 if ya can

[@LebanonJames420]

A Newfie will speak clear as day until another one shows up, then who knows what’s going on 😂

[@Keekonuts]

😂😂😂

[@gillianforan8219]

100% TRUTH ! HAHAHAAHAHAHAHa

[@Buzzkill-wn7tf]

Same is true of my Irish buddies in Western Canada. Accent prevalent normally, but jumpin' Jesus on a popsicle stick...get a couple of lads from "back home" and (maybe) a couple three pints going....good F'n luck! lol.

[@JV-cn7ie]

This happens to me even though I've been off the rock for decades!

[@johndrew4957]

@@JV-cn7ie me to

[@Meyers1793]

Thoughts and prayers to the auto-generated Closed Captioning for this video.

[@macdonald2083]

😂😂😂

[@mckinnon42]

Taughts an prairs bye, taughts an prairs.

[@billrosmus6734]

lmao

[@chrisp6365]

😂​@@mckinnon42

😂😂😂

[@blaircrocker9845]

I went to the US years ago and a lady from texas asked what part of Ireland i was from. I said im a Newfoundlander. Then me and my wife fell into the whole hard core accent and confused the hell out of everyone . In the front of the bus we were on was an old Irish guy and he was in tears laughing. He said he understood us perfectly. He said we sounded like we were from cork. Ended up having a pint with him.

[@zoescott779]

Apparently it is cork county that the og irish settlers in the Maritimes are from!! Not just NFL, but NB, NS and PEI too

[@risksikrikak903]

This is so fascinating.

[@anneedge3627]

That story is so awesome!😂 Canadian here. I have been to Newfoundland twice and loved it so much. I’ll never forget walking up a hill in St John’s and we were a bit lost, and were looking for the restaurant we had booked, and a young fellow, from an apartment building window up on the hill, shouted down at us, where do you need to be? Well, that just blew our minds. “Where do you need to be”. Anyway he was very helpful. We found our restaurant with his kind help. Best people ever.

[@paulbenson4115]

My great grandparents moved to Manitoba from Cork, I'm just proud that I can understand this conversation 😅

[@Caprabone]

​@@paulbenson4115 My grandparents were from Banbridge, so I was able to understand most of it 😅 got lost with the slang....

[@BuckwheatArtDeco]

I was at an RCMP conference in Montreal a few years ago and during the lunch break two fellows sat down at my table. They started talking to one another and after a bit I said so what part of Newfoundland are you from? And the older guy blurts out "Newfoundland! I'm the chief of police of Dublin!"

[@ac1646]

😂😂

[@JustpissTrudeau69]

Oh gawd , nothing worse then then Guardia .

[@patriciamoore348]

Love it!!

[@olliephelan]

Sam Rockwell could do a great impression of him

[@craftaddictRoxanne]

Hahaha

[@brickprik]

I'm a mason in western Canada. On my crew we have a townie newf, a Scottish lad, a northern Irishman, and an old boy from Newcastle England. No one can understand each other.

[@eldricgrubbidge6465]

I bet if you lined them up the right way it could work. Like the northern irish guy might kind of understand the newfoundlander, and the scottish guy might kind of understand the northern irish guy, and the geordie might understand the scot.

[@Magicnun]

That sounds like the beginning of a joke😂😂😂

[@heathermacdonald5642]

😂

[@rsruleu]

So work gets done ?

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

Brilliant comment.

[@dangillis4977]

Im from Newfoundland been to Ireland twice...it honestly felt like an an ancient spiritual home..that might sound corny but thats how it felt

[@jeffho1727]

There last year for a couple of weeks, came away with how familar it is but, at the same time, how much we Newfies almost outIrish the Irish. They never heard of Patty Murphys Wake!!

[@looneygardener]

I felt that too. Irish DNA. Felt home. From Ontario.

[@lauraleeBolger]

My family is from Labrador. My 1st time in Ireland felt like I was finally home.

[@jonathanallard2128]

What if (and I'm just throwing a first thought around) your ancestors lived in Ireland for so many generations that the sights, smells and air of Ireland is somehow imprinted in your genes, explaining why it "felt like home" else than the familiar accent of folks?

[@esmith8676]

It’s like when I went to Scotland (from Nova Scotia). My partner went to university in Scotland too - some of his classmates would say we are more Scottish then they are…I’m from Cape Breton - grew up highland dancing, playing the harp, singing Scottish Gaelic songs at milling frolics with my grandparent, step dancing, and more. Anywho it’s interesting. We got married last weekend and all the men were in kilts made by the daughter of the lady who made all my kilts growing up. Really proud of my Celtic heritage. Can’t wait to go back to Scotland someday soon

[@drewkoenen8334]

Newfie’s are Canada’s heartiest and friendliest people you’ll ever have the pleasure to meet. ❤

[@FrankTheTank612]

Unless you meet my two best Newfie friends from around the bay.

[@maniacturtle]

They also kept their own identity and refused to join Canada for a very long time, we had a song in our textbooks in grade 3 (I think) called "go away canadian wolf". Interesting how some of the Newfie accents sorta sound like Irish cowboys

[@M_SC]

They seem so but it’s hard to know since you can only understand about 40% of what they’re saying

[@leecoffill8425]

This is true, but you would never know it because you won't understand a word they say!

[@frazerdavidson4830]

I remember seeing a sign in a parking lot in Saint John's NF that Said "This parking lot is under surveillance from time to time"

[@watervillegangmember]

I'm Canadian and can understand about half of what he says and I love it. Best accent, best people.

[@zipperzoey2041]

I'm from Wexford, Ireland and I understand every word the Newfoundlander speaks easily . His syntax and accent is very similar to how people from the south east of Ireland speak. In fact I'd understand him much easier than a person from the south west of Ireland like say west Cork or Kerry.

[@johngore7744]

I’m Montrealer and I totally understand him , mind you , you have to pay attention. Lol. Cheers

[@TheOriginalFILIBUSTA]

@@johngore7744 Same.

[@hundifischninchenpony]

That does motivate me. I'm not a native English speaker (German) andI startes thinking I still can't understand English. But so I'm not the only one struggling? 😂

[@Kaegro]

I'm French Canadian BUT im a New Brunswicker. My French is just about this but....French. I was more comfortable with this than I am in ''regular'' English

[@sharpsbattle]

I live in Alberta. I used to work with a bunch of newfies. Great guys, but once they got drinking I couldn’t understand anything, lol.

[@IDeadDanI]

Yeah that do be how it is with us, even if our accent is very mild it becomes dumby thick once we drink

[@marko9708]

The problem is you gotta join em bud. Then it all starts making sense.😂

[@ajkandy]

They have a display in the Royal Alberta Museum of local Newfoundland brands that got imported to AB for the oil patch workers - sodas I’d never heard of!

[@Simone3413]

I grew up in Devon where a lot of Newfies moved to while working for the oil industry. Couldn’t understand a thing when they started drinking. lol

[@grivoc]

Part of it is it's super fun to talk with our natural accent. You'd never know I was a Newfie but back home it comes out, and I feel telling stories and jokes is waaaay easier in my native accent. As soon as you switch back to mainlander it feels like painting with 8 colours instead of 80

[@UTOBEDUDE]

Newfoundlander here ....... Do you guys realize how difficult it is to watch this .......because you guys have beer on the table.... there's Irish and Newfoundland accents ........ and I got nar goddamn beer left in the fridge !!! Thanks for sharing yer chat !!! Loved it !!!

[@davyholden]

Hahaha brilliant 😂😂

[@stuchenery8581]

Lord Jesus boi take a quick gander to town

[@eileensakal987]

Guy on the left don’t say much at all !

[@UTOBEDUDE]

Well, he's not the interviewer ....... and he's not the interviewee .......he's the hosts sidekick ..... occasional commentary is his function here !!!!!!

[@steveo9683]

Can't even write a complete sentence.

[@superbman4088]

Newfoundlanders are some of the truest Canadians in spirit and they were the last province to join Canada in only 1949!

[@brianlawrence5173]

Wouldn't the first provinces to join Canada be the one's that are the truest in Canadian spirit?

[@handlenot030]

@@brianlawrence5173 That was the point of the comment.

[@brianlawrence5173]

@@handlenot030 I mis read the comment. It was the "and" that I missed.

[@codypendency9482]

Being from Alberta newfies are the hardest working people I’ve met so far and usually the funniest

[@pretty_kitty]

Great collab. I married a Newfie. Can't understand lots of what he is saying but he would give you the shirt right off his back.

[@BrendanHenry]

I've literally seen it happen. My dad saw a guy on the beach in Nova Scotia wearing a Fogo Island T-shirt back in the 90s, and told him "hey nice shirt! I used to live there!". Not ten seconds later, the shirt was off, handed over, and they were figuring out how many friends they had in common.

[@margaretclancy8694]

A marriage made in heaven

[@katesleuth1156]

Newfoundlander.

[@poser_disposer]

Im from Fort McMurray, Alberta, and the joke is that we're the capital of Newfoundland because of how many Newfoundlanders live there. My mom is from Newfoundland, and I've grown up listening to the accent. It was culture shock when we moved south and people were so rude, because Newfoundlanders are so nice.

[@harkmi3]

The look of subtle confusion when he talked about ski-dooing! 😂

[@Zraknul]

That's how you know Newfies are Canadians, the use of brand names instead of generic terms with no special loyalty to that brand.

[@cobra29935]

I'm from Saskatchewan and I didn't know until high-school that ski-doo wasn't the generic term for them.

[@ImAfrogQC]

​@@cobra29935 same 😅 and I'm from Québec

[@daveydmur]

I'm from Southern Ontario and they're ski-doos here or snowmobiles but can confirm in Thunder Bay, they're called snow machines.

[@Seventenitis]

Either a skidoo or a seadoo can't tell me other

[@georgettelevesque277]

I’m french Canadian and when I moved to Blanc-Sablon (across the pond from Newfoundland) for work, at first I was wondering what kind of language the people were speaking because I had a hard time understanding if they were speaking french or english. It sounded Celtic. Their french also has the Irish accent and their fast delivery. Very musical and beautiful accent.. .Love your chat and it’s such a pleasure to hear it again after 40 years..💝

[@goldenretriever6261]

That's very interesting.

[@susanhenry4073]

I've always been fascinated by those little towns on the North Shore, like Blanc-Sablon.

[@ms.construed1305]

I took my mom to an appointment and two older men were talking. It was so beautiful and sing song, my mom and I didn’t know what language they were speaking so I asked. They were both from a small town in Quebec! My mom and I are born and raised in Canada😂

[@mechanoid2k]

Sounds to me like they were speaking Acadian.

[@carolinecatastrophe]

Born in Western NL, I love your interpretation of our accents ❤

[@user-ym3co7hg5c]

Newfoundlanders will take you in and feed you when they don’t have much themselves. The best people of my country.🇨🇦

[@lesliemccormick6527]

Hello, from Vancouver Island! I could not agree more!! Maritimes are truly the best of us!!

[@APieceOfLiquid]

It's mad, he even has Irish mannerisms haha. It's crazy how our small little country has populated so much of the world and the influence it had.

[@ac1646]

It's more profound than that though. If you think how accents are so different within a few miles, let alone in a small country, let alone a whole ocean away. 😁😁

[@erichendry3327]

Until social media came along, I had no idea how many things my Mum's family did and said were ultimately from Ireland. So many times I watch these kinds of videos and say "Oh, wow, that's an Irish thing! I thought it was just us." She's from New Brunswick and our family mainly came over during the famine with so many others. Over the years, it's incredible how many subtle parts of Irish culture stayed intact in eastern Canada in the face of immense hardship.

[@APieceOfLiquid]

@erichendry3327 awesome. Does your part of the country have an Irish twang to the accent or is it the typical Canadian accent the mainstream always shows us? Haha.

[@natedogg890]

My dad is Irish-Canadian and my mom is Malay-Chinese, I grew up on the West Coast of Canada, but the Irish-isms creep their way in to my life. My Grandad's dad was a Fenian who killed a few British officers, had to escape the hangman's noose and eventually settled in Canada. My grandad passed in 2021 at 98 but he thought of himself as an Irishman and ran around with a gang of Irish youths in Winnipeg until he shipped off to WW2

[@ac1646]

@@natedogg890 Wow. You have an fascinating family history. Your great-grandfather fleeing to Canada and then _his_ son fighting as part of the allied forces. There is a whole world of history within that timeline of Irish Independence (even though the story went on after that). For context, I'm British; born in the 60s. I would ask my mother 'what is this about?', after yet another soldier shot/bomb deaths in Northern Ireland. Her reply was 'it's complicated.' I studied 'Modern Political History including the Irish Question' at A 'Level to even begin to understand what was going on.

[@elisadoyle91]

I'm a Newfie and just visited Dublin for a vacation and I felt so at home. I often felt as if I arrived back home in Newfoundland. They were the friendliest and funniest people outside of the Rock.

[@burnyizland]

Newfs are the funniest among Canadians!

[@mightymissk]

My grandmother was from Newfoundland. I loved her accent when I was a kid. My oldest brother once told me that Newfoundland was just a big chunk of Ireland that broke off long, long ago and drifted across the North Atlantic. At some level, after listening to these guys talk together, I think he was right.

[@clairecarscallen]

Your brother was not wrong. Apparently the rocky shores of the east coast of Newfoundland, geologically and in fossil content, match exactly to the west coast of Ireland! No wonder the Irish settlers felt at home on ‘The Rock.’

[@jeremybenoit759]

Geographically I believe this is actually correct, Newfoundland and Ireland were essentially in the middle when all the continents were supposedly joined as one, when they split apart, Newfoundland apparently took a little piece of 3 other continents with it and this is now marked off as a geographic landmark in Newfoundland.

[@darlenegenovese8214]

Definitely!

[@thestruggler777]

I’m a Canadian and my father is from Newfoundland. My last name is Burke and our family is said to be some of the first Irish settlers in Newfoundland.

[@thom7724]

The best quote about Newfies that I've heard is, "How do you know who all of the Newfies are up in Heaven? They're the only ones that still want to go home."

[@Apples.and.Avalon]

I am from the Canadian Maritimes. When I visited Ireland....it took me a while to figure out who the Irish reminded me of. Newfies. It wasn't actually the accent...it was the authentic kindness...and love of joy. The only other people I ever met who were that authentic and kind...we're Newfies.

[@corymahoney3081]

I’m from Newfoundland too. He’s right about all the accents through each bay around the Island, they’re all different. It’s common to come across people dropping an “H” and adding an “H” though. We had a saying growing up about two towns around Conception Bay. One town is Holyrood and the other town is Avondale. The saying was you drop the H in “Olyrood” and pick it up again in “Havondale” Newfoundland is known for loads of Icebergs coming down from the Arctic too. If you head out central you can visit Twillingate or Fogo area. You can take a boat tour and head out to see icebergs in “Iceberg Alley”. It’s only a couple months of the year, so you’d have to plan it accordingly. Gros Morne is definitely a place to visit too, great scenery and hiking trails.

[@CS58420]

I grew up in the Ottawa Valley, Ontario where the most dominant settler ethnic groups are Scottish and Irish by a very wide margin. The accent is strong in the small towns and varies often depending on one's background but definitely doesn't sound like the standard anglo Ontario accent. I live in Alberta now and have lost the accent a fair bit but when I'm home it come back pretty quick. Lads is definitely not forced when we speak.

[@kevinn1158]

I'm from Toronto, and I was working in Glace Bay Nova Scotia with Gordon Pinsent. While working there, I met a bunch of Newfies and locals from Glace Bay. They all wanted to meet Gordon and they couldn't believe that Gordon was still so nice. You just don't get that kind of friendliness anywhere in Canada. And when I went to see Come from Away years after my visit I just started smiling to myself knowing that they weren't exaggerating at all.

[@CharCanuck14]

Gordon Pinsent was a national treasure!

[@kevinn1158]

@@CharCanuck14 Nicest guy ever. I worked on 4 projects with him.

[@CharCanuck14]

@@kevinn1158 I can totally believe you Kevin, as Gordon always appeared so approachable & nice whenever I saw him interviewed.......and he was such a great actor! Sounds like he left some great memories with you. Cheers from Peterborough

[@marymac9019]

Industrial Cape Breton is full of Newfoundlanders who came for work in the coal mines (Glace Bay) and steel plant (Sydney) a hundred years ago. Cape Bretoner here, with four Newfie grandparents who met and married in Sydney in the 1920s.

[@kalvman]

The Newfoundlander accent is its own spirit. It is beautiful. I love it

[@remicaron3191]

As someone who worked with many Newfoundlanders in Alberta and B.C. I can tell you there’s no better people to work with. It was good time with great people.

[@newfie7347]

As a Newfie living in California, I really enjoyed just listening to the conversation! I haven’t been home for quite a few years. Thanks for sharing! I hope you make it to Newfoundland soon 😊

[@YourHeartsDesires]

What's it like living where your to, compared to the rock? Give me your address and I'll get you a mason jar of the fresh salty air, or the fog when it's right thick, lol. Don't need to even ask if your homesick. Hope your well. Remember the islands ponds, woods, and blueberries are missing ya. Cheers! 💝

[@kevindawe7495]

Yes b'y, some good down home eh 😊

[@peaches__]

Tell me how you immigrated ! I’m so jealous

[@kevindawe7495]

@@peaches__ Ya, California sounds great, been there many times years back but it's turned into a hell hole now, even worse than Canada under the Commie Trudeau.........

[@PolarBear002]

2 Irishmen and a Newfie sit down for a drink... Sounds like the setup for a terrible joke 😂

[@john.a.gonsalves3731]

There is something so comforting hearing a Newfoundland's accent that makes it part of our culture, making Canada great......

[@Nat-cg1lf]

Hello from Western Newfoundland! My family has been here for many generations and I have no plans on ever leaving, this place is home ❤️ thank you for showing us off!

[@YourHeartsDesires]

Having been born in Newfoundland, yet living mostly off and on most all of Canada. You cannot truly appreciate the rock, until you been away. When you step off that plane, and smell the salt air, you realize there's no place like home! ❤

[@Nat-cg1lf]

@@YourHeartsDesires so true! I worked away for a while and finally coming back to the mountains and salty air was euphoric, there’s definitely no place like home!

[@waynemclaughlin96]

Where in Western Newfoundland are you from ? My sister lives in Cox's Cove near Corner Brook. Her daughter my niece lives in Corner Brook along with her daughter, my great-niece

[@LdangerB]

@@YourHeartsDesires Depends. I left NL for BC and soon feel in love. Newfoundland? Who's she?! jokes aside NL is a wonderful place but I guess I have a fickle heart

[@KimNeville-vr8hn]

​@@LdangerB BC sucks 🙄

[@StuHenuset]

Now wheres a video of their conversation 12 beer deep? Definitely would need a translater for that! 😂 Manitoban but I worked with Newfies and Cape Breton boys out in AB and conversations sure got interesting the more bevys we had!

[@ian5784]

I was not expecting to watch the whole thing, and I'm so glad I did. The whole discussion is a pure delight and packed full of positivity. You guys are great.

[@davyholden]

Thank you 😊

[@TheLiquidEdge]

I have always worn my Newfoundlander heritage with pride. There is no better place to be from.

[@MickPsyphon]

Kinda makes one proud to be Canadian! Newfoundland pride! Big up! I never understood why anyone could deny the lineage to Ireland. 🍺😋👍

[@northwatch]

I recommend searching out the story Adam mentioned about Gander and 9/11. Shows the ethos of the island that I suspect is at least partly Irish influenced. Became a Broadway show.

[@eoghanfingleton8324]

Come from away... finished showing in Dublin tonight , amazing

[@clairecarscallen]

That great show, Come From Away, is opening again in Toronto in September. It premiered here pre Broadway, in 2015, returned as a fully Canadian production in 2018 for a 3 year run cut short by COVID theatre closures.

[@nirajjoshi682]

I'm Canadian and a native English speaker...the first time I heard a Newfie speak in an accent. I swear I needed subtitles for them for a bit. Now I can slip into that accent of you ask me and they ask me what street I grew up on. 😅

[@6ic6ic6ic]

Reminds me a bit of when I was young cooking the line. We had a new dish bitch show up. So I says "what's up? Names so and so" and he says "complete gibberish". So I said " Are you German?" (It sounded such). And he says "No wtf mate I'm British from Liverpool". 😂 Never really had trouble understanding except for that first moment to acclimate.

[@carolinecatastrophe]

Proud Newfie, we love Ireland ❤ We have a lot of amazing accents here

[@carolinecatastrophe]

St. Johns accent, I always recognize because their o's are a's. "St. Jahns"

[@carolinecatastrophe]

Northern accent like St. Anthony is craaazy too

[@Original_Flanno]

Hearing your accent makes me miss my grandfather who died last year 💔 Newfies are a special bunch. Funny, sweet & caring.

[@PenneySounds]

There's a similar accent in Nova Scotia, particularly Cape Breton Island, which is odd because the people who settled there were mainly Scottish Highlanders, speaking the Scottish Gaelic language. But the accent sounds nearly as Irish as Newfoundland.

[@sophrosyne5900]

I'm an Arbuckle and I concur ! All my family from Cape Breton sound Newfie ( They were Scottish Highlanders ) I love their accents - I was born and raised in Toronto 😅

[@PenneySounds]

@@sophrosyne5900 It makes me wonder if perhaps the influence and accent of the Scots language, which is closely related to English, might not have reached the Gaelic-speaking Highlands yet at the time when people from there settled in Canada. Maybe Highlanders sounded more Irish then.

[@bakerboy6070]

Aren’t Cape Bretoners just Newfie boat people?

[@ThatCurious_Cat]

Proud Newfoundlander here, and I’ve been living in the UK for two years. I’m often surprised how little folks in the UK know about Newfoundland and the accent (primarily its similarities to the Irish accent). I LOVE that you lot got together. What a time! Thanks for sharing.

[@coltonbarnes7861]

We was tbe uk's first colony, we had mass irish immigration ever since, my grandmother is mi kmaq and the rest is french and irish

[@jacktravers5049]

​@coltonbarnes7861 I wouldn't say colony. It was a United Kingdom, as the name suggests. Still though, ireland wasn't fully conquered til Cromwell which was after canada was founded.

[@coltonbarnes7861]

@@jacktravers5049 im not trying to be rude but you might wanna do some research

[@jacktravers5049]

@coltonbarnes7861 No. You. The Norman's came in 1100's as invited mercenaries and controlled a small parcel of land. There was the pale and everything outside of it. The Norman's became the "old english" and fought, with the support of the irish people, on the side of the royalists against the parliamentarians. We fought for the stuart Catholic King also. After the confederate wars, and the conquest Cromwell, only then could it be said Ireland was conquered. Then there were the penal laws, land wars, stuff happening all over the island, the population bouncing back and becoming a source of man power for the burgeoning empire. We were afforded a level of autonomy that was not satisfactory to the local Anglo-Irish, they formed their rebellions, no more irish Parliament- famine - mass irish immigration - today

[@coltonbarnes7861]

@@jacktravers5049 lol canada didnt exist until 1867

[@Screwystuey]

Christ I love drinking with Newfies. I work beside them, met and partied with them along the way…. Amazing guys, fierce fighters, warmest hearts I’ve ever met. Truly, the warmest hearts I’ve met. You get in good with a Newf, bonds have been made. Never a dull moment, hard work and great laughs. My parents are from Pasadena, Nfld. My parents still know where they were and what they were doing when the news of the Ocean Ranger went down.

[@Finoryx]

Newfoundlander here! He reminds me a lot of one my uncles, certainly love Newfoundland she's where my heart is!

[@jeffho1727]

Alberta for 27 years, Nfld is still home.

[@comradehonker4988]

I’m a Canadian who married a Déise man, met him 15 years ago while I was visiting my extended family in Waterford City. My grandfather was from Waterford City, but emigrated to Canada when he was young. When my hubby met his first Newfie, he couldn’t believe the similarities in the Waterford and Newfie accent. We live in County Cork now, I love the musical high tone of the Cork accent, but I will always love the Waterford accent the most, cos I guess I’m a little bit biased!

[@evo80hd]

Fun conversation! Don’t forget the Cape Bretoners lol we’re newfies that left to get to Ontario but didn’t make it 😂 my great great grandfather came over from Ireland and stayed in NFLD for awhile before going to Cape Breton, our name is Hinchey. Headed to Belfast next week.

[@_Y.Not_]

My Newfoundland dad always said of my Cape Breton mom, Cape Bretoners were just Newfoundlanders that missed the boat.

[@ruthkirkparick3535]

Newfoundlanders always put a smile on my face (I've worked with a few here in Ontario). I'm retired now and it's those people I miss. I am also extremely proud be able to call Newfoundlanders my fellow Canadians. They are the best of us, as far as I'm concerned. This is a wonderful interview.

[@LithaMoonSong]

This is an important topic, a friend of mine years ago from Fogo had a terrible complex about his accent, when I said to him that he sounded Irish, he just lit up with pride.

[@dinkster1729]

Was he from Tilting? The rest of the Fogo population doesn't sound Irish at all. The hands from Tilting definitely did back in 1976-1977 when I was the school librarian/grade 11 French teacher/ grade 9 history teacher. The rest of the Island was of English origin--Devon & Dorset--and spoke with a totally different accent.

[@KimNeville-vr8hn]

​@@dinkster1729 Wtf are you blithering on about? Gtfoh with your gobbledygook 🙄

[@BrimHawk]

That's 500,000 in Newfoundland and Labrador. And 500,000 across the country. Best people in our country.

[@Trigger200284]

There’s no way there’s that many newfies outside of Newfoundland. I would agree maybe a couple hundred thousand, there’s no way there’s half a million Newfs roaming around. That’s a 1 in 2 ratio, there’s no people on earth that migrate on that level even during conflict.

[@JARPON]

@@Trigger200284 Newfoundland townships and cities have lost thousands over the decades. shes a beautiful island but for the youth its as boring as a rock by.

[@Trigger200284]

@@JARPON I’m from Nova Scotia, I know how terrible the work environment is in Atlantic Canada, but there’s no way there’s 500,000 newfies running around in Alberta, BC and Ontario. I know they all go west in search of work but not 1 in 2, that math can’t even work, especially when stats Canada says the average age of a Newfoundlander is 44 with all the boomers bringing that number up.

[@bipolarmotorjeffpenney2153]

@@Trigger200284there’s more Newfies off the island than on it .. the population hardly grew since confederation, it’s crazy

[@Trigger200284]

@@bipolarmotorjeffpenney2153 not a chance. Proven stats or you have no chance of convincing me. You’re not going to convince me there’s 500,000 newfs out west, the same as the province’s current population. You realize if they have kids out of province they aren’t newfies right?

[@JasonAbel-n8n]

I'm from Toronto.....its so weird that i found it easier to understand the Irish lads than my own fellow countryman! Definitely needed the closed captions for thus one!! 😂

[@amandasnider2644]

I'm from Westport Ontario (near Kingston) and I understand both perfectly. Westport was largely settled by Irish escaping the potato famine. My mother's side if the family is from P.E.I whom have a much more subtle but similar accent to Newfies. Westportian accent definitely still has Irish influence in there. I went to school in Haliburton and had a bunch of Peterborough classmates who thought I sounded a bit like a hick (Think Letter Kenny) but they and Torontians sound like Americans to me...at least the white people do lol

[@msamour]

Not sure if it's just me but after 5 minutes I could understand really clearly. Brought back memories. I spent 20 years in the Navy, and I met many Newfoundlanders. They are great people people.

[@__french]

“Stay where yer too till I comes where yer at”

[@phishyp]

as someone who grew up in the heart of st johns. us townies would call this guy a bayman, or baywop. davy, if you came to st john’s, people would instantly recognize you are from ireland and not the bay (basically anywhere outside of st johns and vicinity [mt pearl, cbs, paradise]). those with a strong accent are generally an older demographic, and it’s dying with our aging population, as 25% of newfies are over 65, and the median age in the province is 49. the birth rate has dropped by 50% since the early 90’s. those my age (early 30's) generally choose not to have children as it's so expensive here, with limited jobs, so people often move for better opportunities.

[@antikz3731]

I'm originally from CBS and I'm a bayman God dammit lol

[@DonalLeader]

I’m hearing a Waterford accent there which would make sense because of the connection with fisheries over there.

[@robfardy980]

I live in st johns, in an area called Waterford valley so Def a connection, come visit sometime

[@Ophelia771]

Wexford and Waterford have a big link. A man from Wexford went over tracing the links. It's up on KZbin somewhere.

[@lamb7780]

Yeah, sounds like Waterford alright. Get him to say "well, boy!"

[@TinTinTubbs]

More Wexford for me.

[@JBond-zf4dj]

Cape Breton has a place called New Waterford, and they sound a lot like a Newfie / Irish speak. They're the closest point in Nova Scotia to Nfld.

[@cornelia9778]

Aren’t Irishmen and Newfies totally kindred spirits?

[@ScottPittman-jc7ph]

yes b'ye

[@grivoc]

I'd say we'd be best kind together

[@Bees-knees99]

He sounds just like my grandfather did! Our house was number 33 and he would say “tirty tree”, this makes me smile!!! When I got married, my husband would never let me leave the room when we went to visit because he couldn’t understand a word my grandparents said! I developed an ear for it. And it’s not just the accent, it’s the colloquialisms! “It’s good what ails ya” was a regular comment.

[@firstlast-ns2qo]

Seen this fella on tic Tok a few times and couldn’t believe he isn’t from Ireland

[@robfardy980]

Look up accents from newfoundland, I think you will enjoy the videos

[@peterparsons7141]

I am a Newfoundlander, with a large extended family scattered all over. The accents vary quite a bit. I have an Uncle/Aunt who are very particular about pronunciation of the English language. Yes, you might recognize they were Newfoundlanders but, you would never be able to identify exact location. Growing up as kids we were not permitted to slang speak, and there are many families like mine. Hay is for horses, etc. What is really funny is when I’m travelling around the island with cousins or whoever , I’m careful not to betray that I’m from away and don’t do a lot of talking. On one trip out to small settlements , We were on a mission to find a part for a boat or something. We had made several stops, and after the third stop when back in the truck I ask my cousin, SO WHAT DID HE JUST SAY, does he have the part or not ? My cousin says to me “ I have no idea what he was talking about !” The point of the story…. Sometimes Newfoundlanders don’t understand each other either. When that happens, Just grin and say “YEZ Bye”.

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

I just gave you a virtual hug.

[@fowchiiiliedpuppiesdied]

P.S. ima girl

[@Hermitthecog]

This was a fabulous conversation to witness, it's like being sat between twins separated at birth.

[@patriciamoore348]

Newfoundland still has some of the purest Irish bloodline in the world, even after being here of a few hundred years.

[@shorgoth]

It's due the isolation of the past few centuries, same thing in Quebec for French origin. There was not much immigration going on since around the British conquest and we only started to become an interesting destination for immigrants in the past 20-30 years max. More often than not we are our own cousins many time over due to the population sizes combined to said isolation. My family is from Chicoutimi Quebec, at the 9th+10th generation I have the same ancestror 156x in my family tree, you can bet your ass those towns in Newfoundland have similar things going on.

[@jeremybenoit759]

​@@shorgothyou might be your own cousin but I am my own grandpa lol

[@craven5328]

​​@@shorgoth Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but the flag of Montreal has a British Rose, the French Fleur de Lis, the Scottish Thistle, and the Irish Shamrock, and has been that way since 1939, and was based on the coat of arms from the 1830s, and is representative of the 4 main immigrant groups that populated the city...so there's a pretty long history of immigration. The French of course were first, but the Scots started to come to Canada in the late 1600s, the Irish started coming to Newfoundland in the 1700s, along with the British to much of Canada. In the late 19th century we had a wave of immigration from Ukraine, a wave of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe just before WW1, and a wave after WW2 from countries such as Portugal and Italy. So...we have a pretty varied history of immigration way pre-dating the past 20-30 years.

[@shanny4306]

@@jeremybenoit759🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😆😆😆

[@shanny4306]

🇨🇦 making me cry ,as I’m missing my dear dead friend from Cape Briton and my old friends from Newfoundland !

[@NeoclassicalRadagast]

My mother and father are from the Cape Shore. When we'd go out there for holidays, it was pretty amazing how Irish the place was. But when 99 percent of the people originally came from south west Ireland, and they were mostly cut off from the outside world so the traditions stayed strong.

[@Trampus10-4]

Western Canadian here. We love our Newfie’s in Alberta. Hard working, fun living maritimers. We call it lazy Irish, more guttural, slightly slurred, with a bit more clip on pronunciation.

[@katesleuth1156]

We call them Newfoundlanders, Newfies is slang started by Americans.

[@Trampus10-4]

@@katesleuth1156 Interested on how it was an American slang? I grew up in Alberta working with Newfoundlanders. It was Newfie’s from childhood. (No disrespect.)

[@katesleuth1156]

@@Trampus10-4 Americans had an Airforce base in Newfoundland in 1940’s. They started the slang newfies. My father was from Newfoundland. He always used the correct term Newfoundlanders.

[@Countrybananas]

Newfoundland is not part of the maritimes and the word newfie is largely associated with being stupid.

[@Wattowattowatto]

@@katesleuth1156I’m from Alberta and we’ve always known them as Newfies. And all four Atlantic provinces are routinely referred to as “the Maritimes”.

[@hansbehrmann8152]

My Gosh Boyos,,, it brought a good smile . What is interesting my daughter went to Ireland to study at Uni in Limerick .Several folks there wondered where she came from in Northern Ireland , they where shocked when explained to them where came from in Canada , they simply did not want to belief it....

[@SirJaymesDAudelée]

1:22 I totally agree. I’m from Ontario, and I met some dudes from the east coast, and rather than speak with what we’d call a typical Newfy accent, I literally thought they were visiting from somewhere in Ireland. Yet they were born and bred in Newfoundland. Crazy.

[@PaulHawkins-tn1cf]

Good conversation guys. Strong Irish accent down the southern shore and around the Irish loop. I am sure you get over here one of these days. A song like Sonny's Dream wrote by Ron Hynes from Ferryland. I heard some Irish people there taught it was wrote by someone in Ireland. Ryan's fancy were a popular band here in Newfoundland back in the 70s and 80s. They all came from Ireland

[@christie7252]

So the real question is, when are you finally making the reverse trip and coming to Newfoundland? We’ve been waiting on you.

[@ScottPittman-jc7ph]

can't keep the kettle boilin for ever.

[@durbledurb3992]

It's mad, like that episode of Star Trek where they visited the planet of the Irish! A thick Irish accent, but from another time. Going to visit that place one day for sure.

[@TheCrazyCanuck420]

You could tell Colm hated being in that episode.

[@user-ex7vt8dr7b]

go and visit this stunningly beautiful province. you can know and work with Newfoundland folk but you understand alot about them as a people after you visit 'the rock'

[@bc30cal99]

Greetings from south central BC, thanks for the video. As someone who was born and raised on the Saskatchewan flatland, then migrated to BC more than 40 years ago, my family back east now say we've got a BC "drawl". Having worked with many folks from Newfoundland, I thought I could make out what was being said without the Closed Captions option, but nope.... Stay well all.

[@robhussey5732]

My great grandfather was from Twillingate area, Hussey is our name. The lineage goes back to 1756 from Ireland. I hope to visit both Twillingate and Ireland some day soon. I also lived in southern Ontario for a time and was asked often if I was from Newfoundland but I'm from Cape Breton which is the eastern part of Nova Scotia.

[@rumrunner1990]

Parts of Twillingate are like something from a dream when you go there on a fair day. I hope you find your way there, I promise you will not regret it.

[@skipper4114]

I am from Twillingate. Where do you live now?

[@MaryGoodall00]

His accent is a cross between a pirate and an Irish traveller !

[@temmy9]

that's cuz half the newfie population come from the english west country

[@LB-gr7gu]

Well I never knew what an Irish Traveler was until a few years ago with cabel .. and yes it's there ❤

[@MaryGoodall00]

@@LB-gr7gu it sure is 😁

[@PeloquinDavid]

I want to hear Shakespeare with a Newfoundland pronunciation. I've heard a bit of Shakespeare in "original pronunciation": it reminded me of the Newfoundland accent and I found it a LOT more natural sounding than the more posh "received pronunciation". Even the rhymes and (often bawdy) humour jump out at you.

[@1lightheaded]

There was a production of The Tempest done with Nfld accents.

[@BarbiM04]

Loved this conversation. Being a bit of a History buff I had to sub to your channel. Born in NL (now living in Ontario) Flying out to St. John's this Thursday for a 10 day trip. Can't wait to dip my toes in the freezing Atlantic and I might do a polar dip. LOL Will have so much fun pub hopping on George Street and Screeching in my Portuguese husband. You can take the girl outta Newfoundland but you can't take the Newfoundland or the NL accent outta this girl 😁

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

I have been to St George's Street and even played the tin whistle there.

[@BarbiM04]

@@AnnetteMurphyger That must have been lots of fun!

[@jacksonwalsh6900]

My parents were born on the Irish loop. I take a trip down there atleast once a year. My whole family sounds like him so this video was quite entertaining👍

[@peteymax]

Hé sounds like a Wexford person who’s spent time in Canada

[@blackberrythorns]

the canadian - eh? comes from irish, it's a linguistic artifact that the irish left behind but it lived on in canada.

[@rocksandforestquiver959]

Yorkshire too, I think the old Northern English dialects are often overlooked in the web of things that make up Canadian English. There was massive migration from Northern England to the Maritimes and Ontario from the late 1700s to the mid-late 1800s in particular and if you go back and listen to older recordings (Ideally ~50s or earlier) of Northern dialects, lots of them sound downright Scottish or in some cases have traits that might more often be associated with Ireland.

[@blackberrythorns]

@@rocksandforestquiver959 the highland clearances in scotland led to massive immigration to canada too. there are many scottish regiments in the canadian military today. the origins of the eh? has been traced back to the irish though. "canadian raising" likely comes from northern england/scotland.

[@blackberrythorns]

@@rocksandforestquiver959 my own ancestry isn't atypical - kennedy (ulster), tulloch (scotland), beecroft (n. england), phillips (wales) and swedes (johnston) who lived in modern finland. there are lots of regional accents though as land was distributed for homesteading country by country so you'll get a bunch of swedes living in one area, belgians in another, ukrainians, etc., it's particularly noticeable on the prairies where there are/were different farmer accents in the small towns.

[@rocksandforestquiver959]

@@blackberrythorns Yeah the Prairies and to some degree the west in general have a lot more of the mainland European influence, there are a couple random places in the Maritimes with German + Dutch leftovers but mainly Maritime accents come from the British Isles

[@blackberrythorns]

@@rocksandforestquiver959 dutch dairy farms coast to coast, lol.

[@PrincessZoey]

im glad Newfoundland decided to join Canada in the 1949* we are better with you guys cheers

[@jacktravers5049]

Coincidentally that's the same year for the official establishment of the irish republic, when we left the common wealth.

[@jimpenton9455]

Correction.... Canada joined Newfoundland !!

[@KimNeville-vr8hn]

​@@jimpenton9455 Fake news 😲

[@Keekonuts]

The Irish can’t keep up with our lovely Newfie❤️

[@chris-ryan]

Haven't heard anything from yer man I don't understand.. the boys are just listening as yer man has an interesting story.

[@williamhemmings2879]

Served in the RCN (from Montréal originally, now living in BC) and I’ve never met a Newfoundlander I didn’t like.

[@billfarley9167]

Likewise. Used to spent annual leave with a Newfoundland family at Bonavista Bay. Their son was my buddy. Salt of the earth.

[@ms.construed1305]

I was JUST thinking that😂 Alberta loves Newfoundland 🥰

[@scotttizzard8526]

Long may your big jib draw!! Hello from a fellow Newfoundlander whose Southern shore family came from Dungarvan, Co Waterford around 1770. Slainte

[@AnnetteMurphyger]

Sláinte too

[@gwhite212]

Born in Gambo Newfoundland. Love this episode

[@Pkeats817]

Born in Gambo, or Gander? 😀

[@marycarter8109]

You guys need to visit the Conception Bay North area of NL. The cliffs and the scenery is just like Ireland. That is where my Irish ancestors settled in the 1870's and where my father was born. The Irish accent is very strong there, too.

[@warmbreezy]

10:40 One of my cousins was one of the crew that died during that crash, and my girlfriends step-father was part of the Coast Guard team that responded to the accident. Small world we live in

[@basseon]

I've lived two years in St.John's, Newfoundland when I was 21 years old. I was the pastry chef at Bianca's for a year and another year at the Fairmont Hotel. But the thing is that I'm from Québec City and I really only started to learn speaking in English at 18. I mean, I was bilingual, I gave a few pastry courses to the public at the restaurant, I translated for groups of French tourists, I had just lived 2 years in Kelowna BC, but second languages are a real challenge in real life (not in books or movies). They required more active listening, and it's brainwork trying to hold a conversation. I didn't have a hard time with the vast majority of Newfoundlander, but there was a few that I really struggled with. The same type there is everywhere, older man with a thick accent. There was that dishwasher who was an ex fisherman who had lost his job because of the cod moratorium (like so many others). I swear to god, that man talked to me for a year and I never understood anything he said the first time. It became a running gag, and he started repeating everything twice to me de facto, which helped a bit. Omg. I had an amazing time in Newfoundland. What I miss the most is the nature and the weather. I like braving the elements being from Québec, and you're well served on The Rock! Because it's not densely populated, nature is much closer to you anywhere you live. I walked from my house in downtown St.John's, to the slopes of Signal Hill to harvest wild saskatoon berries. The Atlantic Ocean is right there, to the horizon, full of whales and icebergs in June, the well protected harbor nestled in the arm of the city with Cabot Tower overlooking the Appalachian inland.

[@carolinecatastrophe]

Thank you for loving our beautiful province ❤ This comment was spectacular

[@kennithdubroy797]

I lived in Jasper Alberta for a summer a long time ago and my roommate was from Newfoundland. The first meal we had he asked me "where are the forks to?"

[@michaelforhan9427]

I had a family doctor from Ireland when I lived in Ontario. He was married to a Newfie girl. He said a lot of folks thought he was a Bay boy!! One of our garbage truck drivers is from Ireland. I initially thought he was a Newfie.

[@larrydee8859]

Thanks a lot Davy! This is really great!

[@davyholden]

Thank you 😊

[@syx3s]

my family used to own a whale / bird watching company in witless bay called captain murphy's. only ever made it out there from ontario once when i was a kid, but you never forget the experience of the people from those areas. friendliest people on the planet. the hardest thing is slowing everything down in your own head to understand what they're saying. take it in and give it a chance to make sense. most people tend to just let it go out the far ear and not understand any of it.

[@HarbourCustoms-gx8bx]

Fun fact - I can remember Captain Murphy's towing us back in Witless Bay harbour in the late 90's when our outboard gave out in fadders small open wooden boat. Small world !

[@Lazdinger]

I love Newfies; they are some of the best dudes I’ve ever worked with and Newfoundland & Labrador are absolutely gorgeous. Cheers from Alberta, boys!

[@25svbn]

My buddy's dad lived in Newfoundland all his life. Never left the Island and he had a perfect Cork accent absolutely identical to a Cork man. ❤🇨🇦🇮🇪

[@LeahYYC]

I as an Albertan, was in a St. John’s NF Shoppers Drug Mart, and a service person spoke to me & I apologize saying ‘what did you say?’ and it was so fast & so hard to understand I finally just said “I’m sorry, I’m hard of hearing” and just paid.

[@Jamie-qk2vb]

That lads a character🍻

[@LightningJR]

Holy . This guy can talk, wicked. Lol. I enjoyed this a lot. Im from central and live in gfw. The specifics i hear in a st. Johns accent is the heavy pronounced L and their yayss for YES. Hes spot on tho. Lol, the add an a or h or subtract the a or h is CLASSIC central nl, i got teased for it when in college on the west coast. Lol.

[@laurahunter1690]

I’m proudly from the maritimes and love my Newfoundland friends. Hard working people.

[@jamesaaron7211]

Mom comes from Calvert, family Cork. These accents are nostalgic.

[@joannepierce5775]

The little communities along the coast, the out of the way places are the most wonderful places to go in Newfoundland. Don't just go to St. John's, although it is a great place to visit 😊

[@rack11]

This is the most international conversation in the history of Newfoundland and Labrador and Ireland.. and I loves it.

[@risksikrikak903]

Growing up in northern canada there have always been someone from newfoundland and its a true story they are one of a kind and kind as anyone you'll ever meet.Their volunteering selflessly is a very common thing God bless them all.That is my experience w them and it has always been positive.Humbles you.

[@josephdeveau4150]

I used to play a game when I worked at a hotel just outside of Toronto: Irish or Newfoundlander. I was wrong 50% of the time. The one thing with both accents is that some people hardly have an accent. I went into this coffee shop every day for like a year before I realised the barista was Irish! Her accent was so subtle. My family is originally from Halifax and Cape Breton, of French and Irish/British descent, and there's certainly qualities to it where you can hear the connections, but once you hear a full-on Newfoundlander accent, all the other Maritimers sound American.