Reaction To Letterkenny (and Newfoundland) Slang
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Reaction To Letterkenny (and Newfoundland) Slang
This is my reaction to Letterkenny (and Newfoundland) Slang
In this video I react to Canadian comedy from Canadian television comedy show Letterkenny and the actor, writer and show creator Jared Keeso (Wayne) as he talks about Letterkenny slang and the comparative Newfoundland slang.
Original Video - Jared Keeso of Letterkenny explains 10-ply and other slang - • Jared Keeso of Letterk...
The terminology I absolutely love is when he mentions, "You know, I guess, instead of ditch, you could say rhubarb too, put her in the rhubarb." As a Canadian, you know that stuff grows by the ditch so it is 1000% accurate.
Rhubarb, weeds, or salal.
Did you have it in the back yard like me and all my friends? That stuff grows like a bastard. My mom would even make rhubarb sauce - like applesauce but, ya.
I always say that, I'm from Alberta. Our family all have rhubarb from the same plant my great great grandmother had. You don't really need to do anything, they grow pretty easy.
@@factsdontlie4342 No, ours were along the front ditch. The back fence was mint plants and blackberries.
"You are spare parts bud"...still the best
Ferda!
When we have a truck or a tractor very stuck in mud, we say "It's totally rhubarbed". I never really questioned why until watching this video.
Old Saskatchewanian here. "Couldn't hit the broadside of a barn" is still used today.
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In Newfoundland also.
Same in NS haha
Need to watch some Quick Dick McDick talking about Saskie slang. We have some interesting phrases here...but at least they're understandable unlike some of the ones from the east coast!
I'm from Saskatchewan, we are the only province that calls a hooded sweatshirts a "bunny hug". The rest of the country causing a hoodie.
Still need to know WHY?
You got that right bro. I moved to BC from Sask and noone knew what a bunnyhug was. Not in Ont, Not on the east coast,only in Sask.
I grew up in PEI , in the 70s 80s we called them kangaroos
I'm a dumb hick from Ontario. Can I please use that? Do you guys call undies Gitch?
Manitobans call a hoodie a bunnyhug as well.
The slang is very rural Ontario but specifically east of Lake Superior, there can be a noticeable accent change when going west of the Great Lakes.
I am from Newfoundland. Here is one you might like.
Typical:
"How are you today?"
"Things are going very well."
Newfoundland:
"What are ya at?"
"Havin' a time.'"
Or having a grand time.
"Particularly nasty weather?"
Oh Me Nerves! Lord Jumpin' Dyins!
'Ow she cuttin?
right masuy out.
Letterkenny Problems is the web show
From Cape Breton Island, so much of what i said people questioned.
Its spilling = heavy rain
Jeet? = did you eat yet
Twirlly = its to early
Sko non? Dis is it byy
Mert, not sure if you’ve seen it or not, but Republic of Doyle was another great St. John’s-based show that had a ton of great Newfie slang like “where’s he to, b’y?” It was basically a Newfoundland Rockford Files with Allan Hawco and Sean McGinly as the father-son PI duo.
I get up in western Canada (AB/BC) and when I finally met my first Newfie, I thought that when he asked us "Where's she to, by?" was just something he made up to mess with us. Then I met more and more Newfies and realized its an actual thing.
Doyle is a fun show. Loved how they did the cross over with Murdock
I am from Ontario and i grew up in a farming town. I have said many of the things and understood all of that.
Remember that Newfoundland is mainly populated with Irish decendance.
We are mostly a combination of British and Irish. 🙂 I should say on my side of the island/in my Bay.
@@Pkeats817 I would have guessed British and Scotts, but as I say it is a guess, because Newfoundland's Flag was the Union Jack until 1949, and we all know the Irish despised England.
@@atomant451 It was true that some Newfoundland Catholics (Irish) were against the Newfoundland Protestants (British), and this caused issues within families, but enough intermarriage happened to mix our DNA. Some people were disowned for this intermarriage of Irish and British. It was always said that happened to my grandmother.
@@atomant451 No that's Nova Scotia.. "New Scotland" lol
I'm a French Indian Irish lol
This is from a Canada wide morning talk show on CBC radio called "Q".
The fellow on the right is the host Tom Power who is a Newfoundlander also a well known musician in Nfld.
He's a funny fellow and Ive heard some amazing interviews with some of the most famous people.
Tom Power "got 'er scalled.."
with that CBC gig.
Bwahaha, ...... "sook".😅
He's a national treasure.
Suggested video: The best calls of Bob Cole (hockey play-by-play man). Born in Newfoundland, many if not most Canadians would say he is/was the “voice” of Canada and successor to Foster Hewitt. He recently passed away at age 90. He called games until he was 86. His most famous call was the 2002 Olympic Gold medal game.
An absolute class act and legend
Ohhhh Baby!
From BC here. There's some of the old Chinook Jargon (common language used between traders and the Indigenous around the late 19th century, along the western part of the continent) that's still used out this way. For example, saying something is 'skookum' means it's large or grand.
We use Skookum in The Yukon too.
I always used skookum too ( B.C. Boy myself). I was surprised when I learned that it was just a Western Canada thing.
@@Weezy42 Yup. Used it once out east and I got some really weird looks.
That's a big one in industrial trades I've worked in or around.
I took several trades courses at BCIT during the 90s. Steel fabrication was the first time remembering hearing it.
yeah ive heard that one before here in BC
Bluenoser here... my dad always used "pritneer" . When i was learning to drive standard i popped the clutch and jumped the car forward running the easy trailer braking system of our boat into the car radiator. Dad said to my mum... pritnear run the boat to the backyurd
If mum got up very early he'd say... gawd mudder, yaup atda crack a christ.
lol I went to high school with Tom Power he’s such an awesome dude… awesome channel brudder much love from Newfoundland… keep yer stick on da ice my son 😉
I really like him.
Fun Fact: Letterkenny (and Shoresy) is filmed in my city. My sister worked in the wardrobe dept for a couple of seasons. When they were doing the Spelling Bee episode, the wardrobe head asked if she'd mind helping fill out the crowd for the audience of the spelling bee. Of course she said sure. What she didn't expect was the end up right in front of the boys in the audience in every shot for that whole scene, haha! So, in the Spelling Bee episode, the lady in front of Wayne, Derry and Squirrely Dan is my sister!
Canadian 53 years here....Always thought "10 Ply" was You were between stupid and useless ( 8 plywood And 12 plywood )
naw that is calling someone "spare parts" it basicly calling them useless.
most truck tires are less than 10 ply but one ton single wheel truck tires are 10 ply
Yes, Letterkenny started as a UA-cam series called "Letterkenny Problems" it's basically skits similar to the opening scene of the show. I'm pretty sure they're still up here on UA-cam.
There's a lot of crossover from Newfoundland slang and Alberta slang - I'd imagine because we get a lot of O&G workers from the East coast. But a lot of what they went over is used commonly on the prairies. Well maybe not Bread Dinner.
Excellent video!! I grew up referring to a fight involving more than two people - so a line brawl or a bench clearing brawl - as a rhubarb. And I’m from Woodbridge, just north of Toronto, where we referred to Listowel as “up county way.”
I love the letterkenny skit with the Newfoundlanders playing hockey and chirping at the other team. but to get the full experience, you need to change the play speed settings to x1.25 so they are talking fast enough :p
Newfie slang is by far my favorite regional slang. Although im from vancouver. I adopt phrases and words from them all the time cause theyre often brilliant and sometimes very funny. Newfoundlanders have a particular kinf of canadian humour that just hits right.
Im curious how much of their slang has roots in the uk with their close uk ties. I'd love you to check out more videos of newfoundland slang because it seems quite familiar to you.
It’s essentially not slang. I’ve researched and it is identical or nearly identical terminology. I remember our older dialect and it was very much a mix of our British and Irish dialects. I have nearly 300 dialect words/expressions recorded from my childhood, and current dialect words. There is literally only one term I can’t find related to either the west country England or Ireland.
The old dialects are way different….way more English/Irish than what you hear today.
The accent and dialects were intact until about 45 years ago.
Check out a copy of the
“Dictionary of Newfoundland English”
Over 700 pages of words some of
Which are only known on this island !
One of my faves is: "Laird tunderin geezuz, buy!" lol
b’y
@@JesusFriedChrist Thanks Mate, I struggled to try and figure out how to type that up, hahaha!
New Brunswicker. We use sook or sookie baby as well
What people do not know is that in Southern Ontario there were many pockets, like Smith's Falls where the primary language was Gaelic until the 20th Century.
So many Scots/Irish folk in rural Canada it isn’t surprising that the slang has crossovers.
Yeah, in Ontario, "prit near" is often followed by "prit much", as in: "Prit near put my truck in the rhubarb today". "Oh yeah. She still good". "Prit much".😀😀
I had some exp. Like."stay where y'ur at and i'll come where y'ur to.Meaning I'll come to you.Or if you are from the North Shore,they would say for fun that,"d'ers no shore like the north shore dat's for sure".
Put 'er in the Rhubarb - laughed the hardest at that one!
Newfie here. The NL accent, and "newfinese(newf-in-knee's)" is a mix of Irish(heavily) scottish, and english accents and vocabulary. irish is closer to our accent, and a lot of similarity, then a mix of scottish and english
you also look up Newfie Comedian " Buddy Wasisname and the other fellers, Newfoundland dictionary" to get some more odd ball phrases. lol Good ol Kevin, Ray and Wayne.
Yeah, in Nova Scotia if you drove your vehicle off the road you’d say you “Wound-up tits up in the rhubarb.” LOL
Excited for the next episode of TPB!!
Thanks that was a lot of fun.
Pert Near spit my beer laughing.
Originally it was on youtube, it was basically just them doing bits and chirping each other, no full story like the show.
Call a man 10 ply that's pert near tilly time buds.
Purt near is simply rural slang used even in rural US. I think they have been smoking the electric alphalfa
I grew up on the west coast Canada, my dad moves us to northwest Ontario when I was a teenager, they were like why do you say dude so much? you're weird.
Put 'er in the rhubarb. Ditching your car in the winter. Happens all the time, especially during the first snowfall of the year.
Well a lot of Scottish brought their language to Newfoundland, me I’m quarter scottish
I grew up on the St. Lawrence in Eastern Ontario. Celtic fiddling & bagpipes were common.
Newfoundland has created so many comedians...they need to make a series
Not sketch comedy..like Codco
..hilarious BTW.. but local townies
Pert near is ancient. They say it in western movies from the 60’s.
Watch the Best of Shoresy, he's the hockey referee, he's also played by Jared
pitter patter man!!!!
Let's get at 'er.
dick dinger
If you watch a few episodes the beginning of each episode has like a little tiny opening bit that was pretty much with the web series was before the full series
It was a web series that became so popular it made it on the major networks.
I had a neighbor that was a Newfie once upon a Time.. one day I was out on the porch with a group of my friends having a beer, and my neighbour comes by and says "eh der lads wut are yous at? Jus blowin'er down?"
We had no idea what that meant so we had to ask what he was saying 😅😅
Apparently in English that's: Hey guys, how's it going? Just chillin?
I’m from further north in Ontario so instead of “in the rhubarb” we say “yer off in the muskeg, there, bud”
He does use the guys slang reccomendation when the newfoundland teams come to play
Letterkenny isnt a real place obviously, but it is based heavily in northwestern Ontario, essentially the heart of Canada, and some of the slang even leaks out here to the West Coast. We go out fer a rip now and again, and we get into scraps outside the bar.
i likes me beer...
A guy in northern Ontario called me a sloob, apparently that's a northern pike which no fisherman wants to catch, they want Bass or Walleye and I get it because Pike aren't good eating, he didn't like me obviously.
The bread dinner sounds a lot like a wish sandwich. A wish sandwich is 2 pieces of bread and you wished there was something between them.
Blues Brothers reference?
@@scottballegeer1509 Actually it was something we said in the military when rations were low. We always had bread for some reason but when other ingredients were scarce the invention of a wish sandwich. If it was a Blues Brothers reference I will have to go back and rewatch that movie to see if it was there. Been a long time since I saw that movie.
@@sudros7594 thank you for the clarification - the first vocal break is that to which I referred.
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Newfoundland speech is ALL slang!!!
I like Mert Can. He's so pirate radio and could have actually saved the Titanic. It's so Chicago.
The original Letterkenny videos were these four:
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From these, they built one of the best Canadian TV shows ever.
just wondering how tilt could be shortened to tilly
Letterkenny is def leans to Ontario slang but a lot of it is still universal accross Canada and is understood. They said on the show about 50% is made up slang and 50% real
This is so regional 😂 I say (from bc0 w’u’oing? Instead of what’re you doing
On the show about newfie fishermen"cold water cowboys" they have to have subtitles because of the accent lol
Watch "Havin' A Time"
I am from Alberta, and Newfoundland sang is very easy to pickup.
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Check out the show Beachcombers
These guys are from the Sudbury, Ontario, Region
Newfoundland is more Irish than Scottish but definitely a blend of both.
Vancouver for 10 ply is or was jam tart.
I mean...you're talking people that are quite close to Nova Scotia...which is New Scotland....
What are you saying? A way of saying what's up or what are you doing? in Nova Scotia
More trailer park boys please!
Ferda!!
untwist the headphones! its killing me XD
Pert near ended up in the rhubarb
I watched the web series and first season, but as it turned from a web series of skitsinto a sitcom drama I watched it less and less. I still like it but the format changed over time
HANDY ....... ( being used as CLOSE BY ) ....... A common reply to such a question as IS DAVE HANDY ? ( meaning close by ) .... NAWWWWWW ..... he can't even drive a nail straight.
Pretty much put her in the ditch by.
Newfies, depending where their at or to, speak soooo fast. I'm from Cape Breton and I've had a hard time understanding their speak. It just goes straight over me head. (How's that fer ya?!)
Harbour Cats like all the way.
PERT NEAR ......... was probably copied from THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES .