Example of the accent of the people of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

[pooptickler1337]

He sounds a bit like a cape-islander.... I am guessing that he lives near the south of nova scotia.

I'm from there, but he doesn't sound exactly like me.

[ohhbabynames]

I'm Nova Scotian and I don't speak that way at all or have I ever really met anyone that did.

[SuperNovascotiagirl]

I went to Boston last winter and this woman on the subway was like" you guys must be bluenosers, you've got really thick accents" and I was like " ...., didn't notice"

[ThePintsNL]

Newfoundlanders have a much thicker accent than those from NovaScotia.I am a newfoundlander and when i travelled to Halifax i had to slow down my speech in order for people to understand me lol.But it wasnt as nearly as bad as when i went to vancouver lol.Ive met people from PEI and i would swear they were newfoundlanders from their accent..but i guess it depends on exactly where your from..so many eastcoast accents..

[RichiefuckinT]

Accent? ....what accent?

[HalifaxHercules]

@MarvellousMuffin Don't forget that German, Irish, English, Dutch, and Swiss German ancestries are also common in Nova Scotia.

[MarvellousMuffin]

@HalifaxHercules

I don't know why I was so adamant about Scottish ancestry and all that. It was very silly of me. Forgive me, that comment feels like I wrote it a long time ago.

[JennaLibbus333]

hahahaha, i live in cape breton and all my friends speak like this. I'm from Halifax though so I don't really.

[smileynumber13]

Where did the cat come from! Hahaha

[Pawnbroker00]

@akropiss What the fuck man? Only 1% of scotland speaks gaelic, why cant you just be happy like everyone else?

[PJC1234]

TIDNEY BY

[russfromdodge]

Wots yer faaaddders name bye??

[420Blairski]

0:32 MMEOOWW

[HalifaxHercules]

@akropiss Scotch Gaelic is gradually making a comeback in Nova Scotia, especially in Cape Breton.

If you ever travel through Cape Breton, especially the TCH 105, you'll notice the street and place signs are in both English and Scotch Gaelic.

[NitnalBMX]

@HalifaxHercules I'm from Cape Breton and I've never seen a Gaelic sign.

[russfromdodge]

@NitnalBMX St Ann's and area has them

[tret32]

@NitnalBMX well then you must be a moron, I have seen Gaelic road signs driving along the Bras D'Or lakes.

[NitnalBMX]

@tret32 Just because I've never seen a Gaelic sign that makes me a moron? You're just an ignorant prick buddy. Please think before you speak, asshole.

[TwEE777]

@HalifaxHercules

I wouldn't hold your breath on Gaelic ever making a comeback here, are there more then a handfull of people who speak it? I've yet to see any street signs in Gaelic, but maybe they're mostly in touristy areas for the benefit of mainlanders.

[mothman64]

@TwEE777 I was driving up in Antigonish county, and their were Bi-lingual English-Gaelic signs all over the place.

[LouiseMacghee]

which end of the Cape Breton - NFLD ferry run was this from?

[mishel24]

cape breton maybe, I don't speak like this at all... dialects vary widely across the province of Nova Scotia and Newfoundlanders are way different than this.

[baddogtoo]

Sounds like North Sydney, Cape Breton. It's impossible to say that this is a "Nova Scotian" accent as the South Shore from Lunenburg to Yarmouth are very different from Cape Breton. As other posters have mentioned, it's most likely due to the German influence on the South Shore.

[HalifaxHercules]

@baddogtoo In Nova Scotia's South Shore region, don't forget that many residents are of German, Swiss German, or Dutch descent, as they are mainly descendents of the Foreign Protestants.

[christine13horne]

Trucker cat : D

[eliaslaing12]

haha just randomly pulls out a fuckin cat

[xxBalialxx]

Yeah kitty! ahahahaaa

[zensaber]

Atlantic Canadians has the best accents. I would know I AM ONE BUAHAHAHA

[iluvyou123100]

i love nova scotia <3 im soooo happy to be a nova scotian

[HalifaxHercules]

If you travel to Cape Breton Island these days, many place and street signs are now in English and Scotch Gaelic.

Since I'm originally from Nova Scotia, you'll notice the accents are different depending on what part of the province you live.

For example, Haligonians, or residents from Greater Halifax Area, may sound different than someone from Northern Nova Scotia/Cape Breton, Annapolis Valley, Eastern Shore, South Shore, or French Shore (Yarmouth, Argyle, and Clare) regions.

[shirehorse9]

My grandfather and great aunts and uncles were from Nova Scotia. Their accent was very close to Cornish.

[mlc871]

lol@truckcat

[northernpike56]

I'm from NS...you sound more like the people in my region of NS than the dude giving instuction...Also the people from southern NS have another tottally different accent than that guy too :-)

[iluvyou123100]

lol its true. we do talk like this. its fun.

[Tehhobbit1]

Was that a fucking cat the he moved from is dashboard???

[GanEdenAustralia]

Sounds like Cornish.

[cremebruleec]

Umm, Nova Scotians and Newfoundlanders may sound similar if you haven't heard a Maritime accent before but I assure they are quite different. Newfoundland was claimed for Ireland, Nova Scotia (New Scotland) for Scotland.

[HalifaxHercules]

As a Nova Scotian now living in Newfoundland, its true the accents from both provinces are different.

Newfoundland English is mainly based on Hiberno English, but with some variations depending on the region.

In the case of Nova Scotia, not all parts of the province may full Scottish accent.

For example, in the Lunenburg County, St. Margaret's Bay, and Southern Sambro Loop areas, since some families are German, Swiss, or Dutch descent, meaning their accent and dialect are slightly different.

[incognito84]

@cremebruleec I'm from the Lunenburg area and a lot of the accents there are closer in origin to old German accents than to Scottish... Although real "Lunenburger" accents are quite possibly the ugliest thing you've ever heard...

[sanddollarscholar]

This isn't Nova Scotia this is Cape Breton

[nakawick]

He has a Cape Breton accent, which is closer to the Newfoundland accent than it is to the mainland Nova Scotia accent. Nova Scotia has a south shore dialect as well and there are several dialects in Newfoundland..

[cfcarefree]

It's basically a rural Irish accent, newfie is our 33rd county!

[BarerRudeROC]

an irish accent? wtf

i don't know what part of ireland you went to but i know thats not one, i should know, i live in the country

[shirehorse9]

@BarerRudeROC If you get into the regional accents from the East Coast then there are accents that are strongly Irish. This isn't an example of eastern Canadian Irish-influenced accent.

[MissAlbaNuadh]

@cfcarefree  are you Kidding, this sounds nothing like irish, p;us it is not a mainland Nova scotian accent, this fella is definitely from Cape Breton, defininitely not a newfie either

[lawnjockey1]

I'm from Maine...didn't sound too strange to me...

[noedig1000]

god dam im from toronto and i cant understan a lick of what dude is sayin

[MissAlbaNuadh]

@noedig1000 Really??? well people from toronto have an accent too that is for sure, your O's tend to be a bot more rounded when you speak them

[caperchampandlew]

Aaah , definitely a Cape Bretner !

[cap3r1]

haha...a fellow Caper for sure

[ry20thow]

might be from cape breton it sounds like

[MeaghanFlemings]

@ry20thow I'm from Cape Breton :)

That's exactly how we sound, lol. Nice detective skills!

[Etrician55]

yeah hes a newfie, im from dartmouth and he certainly isnt nova scotian

[funkophone]

He sort of has a bit of cape breton twinge to it, but I'd say it's closer to a newfoundland accent.

[xylianh]

you guys obviously have never heard people from sydney mines!

[GreyCoyote]

Jesus, he doesn't stop for a breath!

[xoree]

Haha "Dat Feller Dere"

[binoo97]

I believe he said "Dis fella here". :P

[MonocleStoat]

LOL yeah not Nova Scotian

[Jeenyus04]

Thats in North Sydney bud

[lyricalbattle]

no one in this video sounds like their from scotian.. you needs to take that "Nova scotia" part off the title. we dont sound like no damn newfie.

[whatsonthego]

although i do agree that his accent is pure newf

no damn newfie? excuse me?

automatically it's derogitory for someone to mistake your accent for a newfoundlanders as if we're not equal? i don't think so.

[lyricalbattle]

Listen here you newf! I didn't say anything about newfounders not being as equal to scotians.. ok. soo excuse you. all i meant was that newfounders, which is a fact, are hard to understand being that their accent is very "unique" :P And your proof of that..i saw your video, i didn't understand it..Block Bluster..Wat?? Go sit down.

[penhand101]

he is a pure newfie . im a pure newfie too .

[freeandeasyforyou]

us nova scotians definetly dont talk like that i never heard such a thing in my life haha.. just kidding i love newfies...but we dont talk like that here

[THLRandwulf]

Was that the traffic director at Port aux Basques?

Sounded like the fellow giving us directions to line up for the ferry this past Sunday night.

[ardeestephen100]

I like that....I'm Irish and I can hear the mix...cool

[gunner0202]

Very good example.

[SpongyOLlama]

up yours, we don't have accents

[ravendward]

Lol we totally do.