newfoundland accent

[TheFlowerGirl13]

This is the best sounding Canadian accent I've heard. It sounds like I've taken a trip back across the Atlantic.

[ThePintsNL]

They are talking about foxtrap, my hometown! There are so many different dialects of the newfoundland accent from the east to west coast. To this day,i meet people from the southern avalon (also known as the southern shore) and would swear they were from ireland.Such a strong noticable irish lilt to their accents,it is incredible.I consider myself to have an accent,but the southern shore is very irish.It is truely amazing.

[holosphere]

It even looks like Galway...

[skweerul]

I love you Maritimers :) I'm from southern Ontario and we sound plain. Honestly wish I had your accent.

[SpoonHysteria]

It sounds like an Irish accent with about 50 more "eh's"

[ralphyization]

Newfies are so cute, if you can understand them! haha!!

[chambta]

Just odd.



[whoo689]

WOW!  Blunty3000 wasn't joking when he said a Newfoundland accent, "makes anyone at all utterly impossible to take seriously, regardless of topic." :/

:] Problem?

[stcywll]

It sounds similar to Irish, but I wouldnt mistake a Newfie for an Irishman...and I live in Ontario

[BayumGirl123]

haha I'm from Ontario, and in Ontario we sound different from those out in the West like Alberta and such. Hahaha But you guys are so awesome.

[TheXand19]

Sounds like a drunken handicapped Irishman having a stroke.

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@TheXand19 Sour grapes all the way from scotland lol

[ALBIONTYKE]

sounds like a Kerry accent

[xTsukiTsuki]

Oh wow.....you guys sound SO different....I'm from BC ^^"

[Xequ]

You can really hear the Westcountry influence!

[TheLivelovedance]

Is that mad rocks ?

[pontaven12]

Its very much like Cornish to me. Source : being a West country boy, but from further north

[Shannon2993]

Well, besides England. Newfoundland is the closest (large) island to Ireland. There was a lot of migration to Newfoundland from Ireland, hence the similarity to the Irish accent.

[slantyrock]

Sounds like a mix of irish and cornish

[birdydeathPSN]

thats crazy,nearly like irish accent

[TTReeena]

OMG this is my father in law!!! It really is... lol

[Cassandra0223]

Yes, Newfoundlanders like myself ussaly have deep accents. Although we ussaly have deep accents, we often loose them. For example I lived in the middle east for 5 years and now i sounds like a mainlander. And we do sound Irish. :)

[arbybret]

thats pretty good i say, thats the way we are

[rebekahface]

Thats mad, tis so Irish - even looks like Carraroe in Connemara!

[JordoF6]

holy shit that sounds like my accent and im irish!

[mzzzhedison]

@JordoF6 lol. That's probably because one of the dialects is Irish...

[SpencerM1A1]

Fuckin' A mate

[animegalc4]

you sound irish... ahhh that is so weird. that's class

[ConCon75]

sounds like a tinker accent a wee bit.

or an orkney accent.

[hotchickfv]

lool it's so weird that we can all be from canada but not understand each other... like someone from quebec, someone from Newfoundland and someone from ontario... loool

[Dsgooden]

@hotchickfv I think it's great...I'm Ontarian and quite a bit of that went over my head.

[pittielove]

@hotchickfv ... and then the rest of Canada

[DruidTwilight]

I'm Irish and I understand every word they're saying...hard to believe that they're

Canadian...They could be from here!

[SpencerM1A1]

@DruidTwilight I live in Newfoundland. We do not get much Canadian influence. There are very few minorities. So comparing the Newfoundland accent to the Canadian one would be useless. I think I sounds more like the irish accent.

[DruidTwilight]

@SpencerM1A1 You're right...In fact it sounds EXACTLY like an Irish accent...Some friends of mine visited there recently, with an Irish tour group... and were not able to tell who was Irish and who was from Newfoundland:

The accent is very like the way we speak in this part of Ireland...It's amazing...I love it :)

[SpencerM1A1]

@DruidTwilight When I went to Toronto last summer to visit family it was like they were speaking in a different language. It was crazy. I could imagine Ireland looking very similar to Newfoundland as well.

[quillandandrew]

@DruidTwilight That's cause 80% of us came from you and the Scottish. The other 20 is a cocktail of everything else european. haha

[DruidTwilight]

@quillandandrew Actually it's a Waterford accent. Waterford businessman John Kent brought thousands of Waterford families over there. He was the 2nd PM of Newfoundland:The connection between St John's and Waterford Ireland is so strong that parents of children of Waterford origin, had their children baptised in St John's, then entered in the register of St Patricks Church, here in Waterford Ireland. You can see the register if you visit here. Are there any 'Waterfords' there?

[quillandandrew]

@DruidTwilight That's quite amazing, actually. Unfortunately, the history of my own province was apparently phased out of the schools that I went to. It seems that all I know, other that our involvement in the wars, is the St. John's fires and things that older people have mentioned. It really sucks. Thank you for that very significant piece of information though. It is greatly appreciated, and I'll have to check out that register if I ever go to Ireland. And no Waterfords, that I know, anyway.

[Rheostatik]

@DruidTwilight The only Waterford I know of is the Waterford Valley, which is a fairly historic neighborhood in the west end of St. John's.

[DruidTwilight]

@Rheostatik There's a Waterford Hospital in Newfoundland, I think..It is a psychiatric facility....also names like Power, O'Reilly, O'Keeffe are all Waterford names...especially Power though, it's THE Waterford name!!!!

[cellobaby]

@DruidTwilight you need to learn a bit more global history...

[DruidTwilight]

@cellobaby I have not said anything that is incorrect. I have an excellent knowledge of global history. What I 'need to learn' is of no concern to you

[Sum0phlange]

Then you go to the church, then you come to the graveyard, rick is down there second left on your right goin out, ?????, mkay (repeat instructions) I'm thinkin about going that way next spring sometime, ??????????????, ??????? - one weekend at least, ???????????????????.....

[djp325]

sounds like trailer park boys

[Newfieguy89]

Ah yis...lovely tell yer mudder....loves it me ol' trout!!

[kingscoveboy]

sure nutn ta dis h'ole man, I's frum crosss da bay @ king's cove

[MewSoki]

I have no idea what these guys are saying.

I'm Nova Scotian though. So.

Yeah.

[tasher85]

@MewSoki I'm from Cape Breton and I can understand everything they say. It could also have something to do with my father being a newfie but whatever lol

[sexymamaluvinhim]

Not all Newfies talk like that. That is actually really hard for me to understand and I've lived here for over 13 years. just sayin

[connorpadraig]

@sexymamaluvinhim Why would you choose to not talk like that?

[sexymamaluvinhim]

@connorpadraig I never said I chose not to talk like that. It's just that I grew up on the west coast so hearing the east coast or central accent often makes it hard for me to understand

[banjcyco]

I am Devonshire u.k., the first guy talking sounded to start with really Westcountry the second chap sounds a cross between Welsh and scandinavian. I spect the accents get mixed together somewhat as families inergrated. Listening to your accents on various web sites, its amazing hearing the old Devon coming out. Come over hear folks and you will hear much of your accent still alive and well in most pubs and villages, Come an, brush up on your westcountry accents ... Or right buys?

[JoshGilhen]

That's some hardcore Newfie accent there. The Newfoundland accent sounds really Irish, whereas Nova Scotia/PEI and to an extent New Brunswick have hints of Scottish

[littleladylove]

I've lived in Toronto for a year and I hear plenty of people say aboot. Depends on the type of crowd though.

[nickjonassucks123]

im a newfoundlander. haha some people only understood 2 words .. come on now by's it aint dat hard for ya now .  aha i understood every single word

[goofynewfie12]

@nickjonassucks123 yup same

[SilverJigProductions]

@nickjonassucks123 It's funny because, to us it's just like "Why can't people understand this?" But I guess it's like a different language to them.. xD

I mean, I CAN hear the accent, but I can understand every word clear as day. =]

[luciphernow]

@bucklandb It's a fairly large island off the east coast of Canada. I live in Nova Scotia. We have to take a ferry to get there and it takes a few hours. Those people are what we call the "salt of the earth". Never met a Newfie I didn't like.

[ShadeC4]

As far as I can tell the only other influence on the accent has been from the rest of Canada so it's literally a combination of Irish & Canadian. Meanwhile it seems that what's stereotypically defined as the "Canadian accent" is the Newfoundland accent. In my 27 years of living here I've not heard any Canadian say "aboot" unless it was intentional. If it's not from Newfoundland, though, then I have no idea where people got it from.

Anywho...

[MsKennybenny]

misses my home, no one knows what im saying here because apparently i talks funny

[TheMelanieBeck]

I'm a newfie! :) haha! People tell me I talk really fast, but I think we sound like england accents, and ireland accents combined.

[iloveghelyun]

he could have been giving me directions to his anus and i wouldn't have known the difference.

[macrolly23]

sounds like a mixture of wexford/ waterford/yorkshire accent.

[bywestonbay]

Newfoundland is the only place outside Ireland that has an Irish name. I visit Dublin regularly and believe me those voices would not have sounded out of place there. The resemblance is striking!

[safarichick101]

Haha. I was only able to catch part of that! Haha. I always loved the irish accents but these are soooo COOL.

[ALTERNATECHAOS]

I was only able to catch like, three words of that.

What.

The.

Fuck.

That was awesome.

[crazybubbles18]

omg...i love their accent xDD even if i didn't understand anything >.>

[bodyke4life]

it does sound irish

[animefangirlxx]

@bodyke4life Irish FTW 8D lmao I'm not Irish nor Newfie but I still love 'em both (:

[Litterboxer529]

haha my grandad speaks like this and he lived in Makkovik, Labrador

[FishyMoe]

I rkn its like Irish with Canadian/American-esque, more emphasis on the "R's" like Canada + America.

[GanEdenAustralia]

Cornish

[thecaligirl828]

@GanEdenAustralia what's cornish?

[GanEdenAustralia]

@thecaligirl828 Somebody from Cornwall. UK

[thecaligirl828]

@GanEdenAustralia oooooh. i wondered what that meant, my last name is cornish british.

[GanEdenAustralia]

@thecaligirl828 Cool :)

[rabeam]

What are ya aaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

God bless Newfoundland

[Brandon112878]

They sound almost Cornish.

[kendallbob]

fort macmurray?! what?! ive never been there but i thought they had normal albertan accents. unlike this.

[handsomechapxxx]

Cheers for the history lesson : )

[mirandamayo2]

WTF? They just gave directions to my house. I'm not even joking.

[cragmak56]

These guys actually sound like there are from fort macmurray

[SilverJigProductions]

@cragmak56 You're probably just getting confused because there's so many of us Newfoundlanders in Fort Mac. =P

[noelcavo]

True Irish thats for sure "

[stickgore]

havin a time wit the buys eh

[handsomechapxxx]

Im Irish but this is crazy close

[Ruthybobz19]

@handsomechapxxx

very true.... hmmm does this mean we'll be speaking slightly like nigerians and poles in Ireland in years to come! haha we helped create the liverpool accent!

[DoubleNegativexyz]

@handsomechapxxx Most newfies came from Ireland originally.. In fact it is the only place in Canada that has an Irish name, Thalamh an Éisc

[animefangirlxx]

@DoubleNegativexyz o: what happened to the vikings? 

[DoubleNegativexyz]

@animefangirlxx eh they intermarried with the Scots, then the Irish, a lot of people have a good mix of things.. but if you ask most people in St Johns where there family was originalyl from, they'll tell you Ireland.

[bywestonbay]

@animefangirlxx It's believed the Vikings abandoned their attempt at colonisation and returned to either Iceland or Scandinavia.

[lostboysmarko4]

@handsomechapxxx lol my boyfriend there he is newfie and he talks fast when i asks him haha he has even the accent in me when i am from New Brunswick haha and moved too Alberta same with my bf haha he talks fast eh

[slugfly]

@handsomechapxxx We (I'm in New Brunswick, just southwest of Newfoundland) have a lot of Irish in our heritage. :) Many Canadians make fun of it, but I think it's a very attractive accent, as is Irish.

[dectrone]

@handsomechapxxx thats who setlled here.. mainly irish and english 

[PurpleSkittlez8D]

1likestoplaymusic , just shut up, its obvious your making fun of our accent and its noot funny, so get a life, by the way this video is totaly making fun of us newfoundlanders. its not even funny.

[yowp]

im from bristol in the southwest of england and have been researching my own accent and its history, and came across our links with newfoundland. It sounds like an exact mix of irish and bristolian to me. In bristol we say things like 'wheres he to?' instead of 'where is it?' do they do this in newfoundland aswell?

[1likestoplaymusic]

I misses St. Johns, I doessss---and dat's da trut. (thats the truth:)

[AnimalLover2456]

Springdale is home!

[AnimalLover2456]

Springsale!!

[stelist4life0]

one of em seems foreign, maybe irish

[timobolling]

This is Salvage.

[trueblue151]

wheres this to?

[TrandomnesstwO]

I am proud to be a citizen with such a wide range of just about everything.

[Nick05000]

It's sort of a mix between a Irish accent and an English Yorkshire accent if you ask me, though I don't know lol

[bluesborn]

@Nick05000 It's actually I combination of West Country English and Irish accents.I read somewhere that because Newfoundland was so isolated the accent is very close to what people might have sounded like in Elizabethan times although that "pronounced" accent is being lost to exposure to mass culture.

[Chowkins79]

@Nick05000 people from southeast Ireland and southwest England settled nfl, so that explains the similarity