In the year 1840, 50% of the population of Newfoundland was Irish people. Today, over 180 years later, Irish culture is still very present in the province. Adam Hodder (Harbour Customs), from the Southern Shore of Newfoundland, tells us a little bit about the influence of the Irish accent in Newfoundland. We were very lucky to get to meet Adam and share a conversation about our homelands over a beer.
@@NoPe-n1j give them a generation to melt into the pot. One of the best buddies I had on course was a 1st gen Canadian, whole family from India but the guy had *the most baymen* accent I have ever heard cuz he grew up in it. Mcpl. Joshi, miss that fkn guy.
@@zelaht2778 mostly irish, cornish, french and a few portuguese names. the grand banks cod fishery was a major prize during the age of exploration/colonization.
I work with so many Newfies out here in the prairies. You get two of them talking to eachother and you can't understand them at all. But they'll give you the shirt off their back if you needed
That’s so cool. I’m Irish, and it’s fascinating hearing most of his accent sound like west Ireland, but with what sounds like almost Southern American influence? Edit: ok guys piss off I suck at identifying accent locations apparently please stop replying good lord
Most Irish emigrants to Newfoundland originally came from the counties of Wexford, Waterford and Kilkenny - so the south-east, not the west. As a Wexford man myself, I can confirm it sounds a lot like all the accents mashed together.
I think you mean ... Mainland Canadian influence? Or were you trying to say *the American South" as in Alabama, Mississippi and the like. There's no substantial historical connection between Newfoundland and the American South. However, there is one PARALLEL. The southern drawl accent and dialect - and the nearby Appalachian one - were heavily influenced by large numbers of non-English British settlers. But for the south, it was not heavily Scottish folks. That said, the accent has shifted much more in the south since those times. The Irish immigration to Newfoundland was bigger, more recent and there's the island effect (they were more isolated.) Linguistics is complicated.
@@RobespierreThePoof i meant american south, like the stereotypical cowboy drawl. I wasn’t implying that there were a lot of people coming from there, i highly doubt it, just that the accent is similar
That's because so many people from the Maritime provinces were taught to play instruments and sing. People have kitchen parties and dances at halls. Lots of great food, drink, dancing, and pretty women who love to dance. Great times.
That's amazing!really thought I was listening to a lad from Ireland,I'm irish an always wanted to go to newfoundland but after this I'm def going!!! Deadly👍
I went to see Come From Away recently and I spent the first half wondering why they'd done a Canadian setting with Irish accents. I had no idea that was the Newfoundland accent.
People saying its hard to understand... Honestly im from manchester in england, i do speak some languages, but i found him perfectly comprehensible 🤷♂️ its literally an AMAZING accent, i love it.
Wooo!🤘🍻 I'm a Newfie!! And Buddy is absolutely right! There are old skippers from around the bay that you can't understand what they are saying! But they are always laughing and having a good time, so it's not hard to get along with anyone!:)
I’ve got an uncle that I need a translator for lol. He lives in hillview. Mom and nan understand him, but i can’t understand a word. He talks too fast . He also lives with a horse.
as a newfie i promise you, you are not missing much in terms of sights lmao. best view is cabot tower at night, you can see all of downtown. but that's about it lmao
I lived in newfoundland for 4 years. Amazingly nice and hospitable people on the rock. I'm from Ireland and when I first landed at the airport in St John's I thought our taxi driver was also Irish when he spoke to us lol. Cbs is a beautiful place.
That's Class! As I said myself, if I'd never heard of Newfies and you told me it was an accent from, say, an island off the west coast id believe it 100% 😂
'ere, l'uh! Whatcha gotta understand is dat in Noofnlan dere's a pile of diffren accents, right? I mean, I'm from da bottom o' da Bay in Fortune Bay on da Burin Peninsula and we talks different den dat feller too, wha? Now, let me switch back to a more accessible English- There are multiple regional accents in Newfoundland- generally identified by either Peninsula or Bay- which will have a variant of one European accent or another. For example, where I'm from it tends to be an older form of an English accent but one only has to travel about an hour, an hour and a half to encounter people with a French accent or even a mild Scots one. The gentleman in this clip is clearly from the Avalon Peninsula near the Irish loop which is also known as the Southern Shore. Now, having grown up in that diverse linguistic environment about 40 years ago, I can attest that his accent and his experience is correct where the closer one is to Town and the younger one is the weaker the accent has become. In any case, greetings from Newfoundland I hope you're all doing well. Oh and one final note - The apostrophe is actually the 27th letter of the Newfoundland alphabet.
In South Boston, locally called "Southie" the population was so thoroughly Irish that even 50-100 years later third generation Americans whose parents had never been to Ireland spoke with an Irish accent. My great grandparents came from Galway over 120 years ago and some of their grandchildren who were born and grew up in Southie had Irish accents.
Placentia bay is another area where the accent is extremely strong. We’ve lived there for generations and I think you’d love the amount of history that’s there. From battles with the French, the site of where the Atlantic Charter was signed during WW2, and Argentia naval base, you’d have a gold mine to pick through!
The accent is different in different areas of the island. What he is saying about the southern shore is certainly true. However Most of my family came from England. The accent is not the same in Chance Cove, Trinity Bay. They dont call his area the Irish Loop for nothing.
Him talking about accents changing only half an hours drive away is the same where i come from, Western Scotland. Here in Ayrshire you go one or two towns away and get a different accent, and if you keep going it keeps changing. So you can tell where in Ayrshire someone is from by the variations in their accent.
Same in Ireland and England. Accents vary even in Liverpool and Newcastle depending on the side of town. An accent in Belfast is different from Derry, Dublin, or Cork.
Ok. That’s a real accent ? Holy cow. I’d heard of this thing with the Irish accent in Newfoundland and some of the islands there but I wasn’t expecting a full on west of Ireland with a North American twang. ❤ It’s cool. 😎
this is the average bayman's accent. it differs slightly bay to bay, my nan is from a different bay than buddy here is and her accent is more... i don't even know how to put it without typing it out lmao so here we go "she'd tahk loike dis n dat n d'odder ting, shur b'y yu'd probly ave a ard toime understan'in 'er" (translation: she'd talk like this and that and the other thing, sure b'y [newfie slang, just pronounced "bye"] you'd probably have a hard time understanding her.) some older baymen have VERY heavy accents that even someone like me has a little difficulty understanding lmao, but in the city not many people have bay accents unless they were raised out 'round the bay.
we also talk incredibly fast compared to americans and mainlanders lmao. buddy here is talking at a pretty normal pace for newfies, but i knows other b'ys who talks faster than this (myself included depending on how energetic i'm feeling lmao)
It's a weird welcome though, warm and immediate, but you'll always be a come from away. Think you have to be like third or fourth generation before you're one of them.
Just to put in a word about the Irish in other parts of Canada, for most of the 19th century the Irish were the single largest European group in Upper Canada; i.e., Ontario. Not until 1891 were there more English-born than Irish-born people living in Canada.
Yes. The Irish also built much of the infrastructure in Upper Canada (Ontario). My Dad's Irish family settled in Cannington in 1804. The homestead still stands on the farm outside of town. My family name is on 50% of the headstones in the surrounding area. The Irish were the backbone of the economy.
*Protestant Irish. About 2/3 of the Irish who came to Canada over the years up to the 1930s were Protestants. Mine came to “Upper Canada” in 1820s. Presbyterians from County Cavan.
I was at a banquet with the guy who plays Hitch last Saturday. He got inducted into the Hockey NL Hall of Fame. I was there because my late step-father Carl Lake was inducted in the media category. I didn't notice Hitch at first but my hubby went right up to him at the bar and was like "Fuck. You're the b'y in Shorsey!"
Yeah, it’s really sad. You hardly ever hear Irish spoken Newfoundland anymore. When I was a kid, you basically only heard the old timers speak Irish. Everybody knew Irish words needed to expressed displeasure, But nowadays, the only Irish, you ever hear, at least, in Newfoundland, is the odd swear word. We lost something important when we lost our ability to speak Irish. It was something cultural that spoke of a tightknit and very supportive community system.
I’m English but my grandpa is from fortune, Newfoundland and considered himself English/irish. He married my nan who is from England obviously and they moved back. He considered himself more English than Irish and a lot of Newfoundlanders are English and Irish mix
Well for one you can tell he’s Canadian by the flannel 👚 lol and baseball 🧢 cap….dead give away, lol. When Newfoundlanders talk fast, all one can do is smile and nod knowing I didn’t understand a word they said lol 😂
@@ciaranbyrne6255 nope, American. I'm pretty decent with understanding accents, as I've lived abroad in the past and currently live in a pretty international city, but I was no match for this dude. 😆
Fuck me boy , he sounds Irish , Jaysus that's mad , come ere , is it an emotional thing with them having Irish Ancestry, or are they no really bothered about it ???
Newfoundlanders are very proud of the Irish heritage. We visited Ireland a few years ago and I’ve never felt so at home, being so far away from home. ❤
I could tell you stories about how my grandmother described protestants that would make you blush.That sentiment died out in my generation but I never saw picture of the queen in any of our family's homes😂
@@rickcorcoran543 Me grandfadder is 97 and still don't have a good thing to say about the Protestants. Don't think buddy will ever change that opinion either lol
Moved to NL 2009 for school. Have to say it took me a while to figure out what the different dialects were. Not to mention NL specific words and phrases like « Skeet », « whattya-at? », « b’y », and my favourite « dis is it ».
@@dessieoleary280 funny story when I was at CoNA heard that word and had to ask my classmates what a “skeet” was. Learned many words while in college 😂
hi davy. i was just wondering, there’s a photograph of Cathal Brugha when he passed away, being guarded by members of the Cumann na mBan. one of those women is my great grandmother, and i feel the Cumann Na mBan is relatively forgotten about, so could you do a video on them?
I grew up in Placentia. I can remember visiting places in Europe 15-20 years ago and nobody believed me when I said I was Canadian. Everyone I met was convinced I was Irish and it made me mad at the time because I thought “I sound nothing like that!” 😂
the newfoundland accent is a blend of British, Irish, French and even some American Slang It’s a unique dialect. And even amongst us it can sound drastically different blemish in where you are from.
Im northern Irish, and being from co Antrim, it's not a great accent 😅. But I was on holiday in Turkey once and got talking to a lady from England and her adult daughter and she comes off with "oh I can't understand you Scottish people" I laughed and said I'm not Scottish, thinking that being English and therefore a close neighbour, her next guess would be that I was northern Irish. Nope, next thing she came off with was "sorry, are you American then" 😵💫 would love to know were in america she thought this accent could even possibly be from 😂
@@Silverstreamhomecrafts Appelachia! Not relevant but a fun fact. I knew a girl from there who had all sorts of NI sayings. It was weird! BTW Co Antrim accent is the best accent. Just sayin'! We reckon the Canadian/American thing is because we pronounce 'R' but English accents don't. eg drawer...draw.
@@bettybutterbean5759 Appalachia is full of NI descendants apparently so that at least makes some sense! One of my uncles used to say (I have no proof that this is true btw) that hill Billies were called that because they were protestant northern Irish emigrants who then subsequently got named after their fondness for William king of orange who gets called king billy here.
oh lord thats freaky to hear that!! i knew waterford folk had settled in newfoundland, even have our native Bla's over there and the waterford accent in parts but god that accent is ................incredible
I'm from Maine and while we have a completely different accent journey, the Maine accent from the part closest to Newfoundland is similarly striking 😁 it's descended from a specific English accent. I now want to hear this guy talking with an old Downeast lobsterman. 😁
this is all so fascinating to me. i'm from a way different place, the Appalachian part of Kentucky, which is yet another region where waves of English, German and Scots Irish immigrants settled over the centuries, then they hunkered down in remote hollers tucked up in the mountains for nigh on 500 years by theirselves, and they got weird, lol. and that's where us Appalachians come from, and why the rest of the US struggles to understand our accents too. i can understand these Newfie fellers with no problem though, no subtitles needed for this hillbilly girl, haha. we have such a cool culture here cuz of the Scots Irish influences though, i love it here so much! we talk diff'rnt, we sang diff'rnt, we dance diff'rnt, we say fer instead of for and ye instead of you. and if you get a mite curious and start to look to see why, it almost always is "because Scots Irish", lol. it's a weird region and often highly stereotyped and maligned in popular media, which is a little annoying sometimes. most people in the US ain't got the first clue about who we is and what we do, what life be like, here in Appalachia. i love it though, it's truly an awesome place to live
That accent is really interesting. Sounds a bit like a United States southern accent (like one of the thicker ones) Which makes sense, since both Newfoundland and the southern United States had a lot of immigration from Ireland. Each accent group is distinct, but you could definitely pick out similarities like vowel pronunciation.
There's a Newfie with a hockey channel, and half the reason I like watching him is his accent. The other half is a combination of the nicknames and the quality commentary
Depends on the Bay and what side of the Island you are talking about.... go to Bay St George on the West Coast and you will be hard pressed to hear an Irish accent, French-Acadian is very predominant though
Alot of people from St.John's have a strong Irish Accents and if you are born and raised in St.John's you would know the difference to what part of the city your from so your a bit off there my friend you been around the bay to long and never really explored in and around St.John's you go to the battery or Pleasantville , Quidi Vidi , Torbay , Logybay ,and if you go up the southern shore
For more from NL check out the late great NL musician, Paddy Gearin singing Old Polina. His earliest video was shot in 1953 on a wharf full of kids and fishermen in Fermeuse. One of them started dancing and singing. NL is beautiful.
@@davidsmyth8647 I tell ya, its scary how close to our accent they are, especially the music, everything is trad music. Honestly, they are more Irish than we are 😳😳😉
In the late 80s when serving in the UK Military I visited Newfoundland (Not too far from St Johns) for training. Went into 'town' on our only day off and was gobsmacked to hear two kids agruing over who "Dis Boike" belonged to! 😂 🚴 Lovely place, lovely folks.
There’s a lot of influence from the English West Country settlers too, not just Irish. There is actually a Wessex Society in NFLD, and the Orange Order too lol. It’s pretty much 50/50 with a little Scottish. The old flag is green, white and pink after all.
I lived in Texas for about a year and now I live in Ireland for the past six years, and I'm a linguist so I couldn't help but gather some linguistic data over time spent in the two countries. I'm not familiar with all the accents of Ireland but the way he said boy with the 'a fada' sound makes me think - south of Ireland (I l've heard Corkonians use that sound a few times that I interacted with them). Then, some of his accent does sound like the US South, but that's not surprising either, since many Irish historically emigrated to the US South too and contributed to the southern US accent. Now in Ireland, you don't hear exactly the kind of accent they speak in the southern US, but his "twang" does somewhat remind me of the news report about the men from Kerry whose sheep were stolen and their accent (everyone in Ireland must know of this video 😅). Also, a prominent feature of Irish language (and just so I'm clear, I don't mean the Irish accent of English, but the native Irish Gaelic language) is euphony, which means changing the sounds of the words so they blend more easily into connected speech. The Irish transpose this feature partially onto how they speak English (well, they do it as much as English allows to), so they use quite a bit more of connected speech in English as well. Though, nowadays the accent has become a bit more diluted in urban areas, I'd say. And by diluted I mean there are global influences from other English accents (standard UK and US accents).
What part of Ireland is Davy from? Because the Newfie guy's accent aounds so like Davy's, but v different from my mother's Mayo accent... So I'm thinking the Irish who went to Newfoundland must hve been from Davy's part of Ireland?
A great deal of Irish came over to Newfoundland after 1763 due to the end of the Seven Years War. It's when England took sole control over the Colonies of North America. This led to the explusion of Newfoundland's primary population: Rural French colonialists. The Parisian colonists all settled in Montreal and Quebec City, and in later waves the lesser-classes could only afford landfall in Newfoundland. The British allowed the Quebecois to remain, but expelled all the 'Acadians' to the Louisiana line, which is where the 'Cajun' peoples and dialect come from- Cajun is just the word 'Acadian' changed through time.
Irish accents are stubborn as muck 😛 if you see the video on YT entitled something like "Mingy Men", Lebanese folk who worked closely or grew up with the Irish UNICIL (UN Peacekeepers) their accents are *wild*. My uncle was a commandant in the Peacekeepers in the late 70s early 80s and decades of Irish support have really impacted these accents so strongly. Saw a video (by Beryl Shereshewsky) on here, one of many where guests from worldwide share their own clips to show and tell foods from their cuisines, cultures or lives. I remember a German lady who had lived in Ireland 20 years and just moved back to Ireland. My god did she absorb Irish inflections insanely. Colonisers may try to stamp it out but it aint going nowhere :P
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In the year 1840, 50% of the population of Newfoundland was Irish people.
Today, over 180 years later, Irish culture is still very present in the province.
Adam Hodder (Harbour Customs), from the Southern Shore of Newfoundland, tells us a little bit about the influence of the Irish accent in Newfoundland.
We were very lucky to get to meet Adam and share a conversation about our homelands over a beer.
Mate, I didn't know you did podcasts?
@@Elder74I actually don’t. This was just a last minute, impromptu podcast because Adam was in town!
Class man, can't wait to listen to this whole thing
Where can we find this full episode
St. Patrick’s day is a paid holiday for some of us in Newfoundland!
So you’re telling me Newfoundland sounds like an Irish accent and a southern accent fighting for dominance over their host? Got it.
Ok Karen
I get it
Yeah... Some of his pronunciation on the same exact word kept changing.
@@hessness actually a really common trait of the Irish accent is the sentance placement and structure changes pronunciation.
whats a southern accent?
"it's not so strong where I'm from" he says talking in salted caramel flavour Irish accent
Our country is currently getting our culture ripped away from it because of mass immigration because our politicians use people as political pawns
So yes now it’s more common to hear a Punjabi accent
@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeatonly in Toronto 😂😂 stay there, btw
I think it's pretty common to think that your own accent is not that strong
@@NoPe-n1j give them a generation to melt into the pot.
One of the best buddies I had on course was a 1st gen Canadian, whole family from India but the guy had *the most baymen* accent I have ever heard cuz he grew up in it.
Mcpl. Joshi, miss that fkn guy.
I met a Canadian years ago in Australia with a full blown Irish accent.
It was hard to accept
😅😅😅
Easier to accept once you realize it’s not Irish accent at all
@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat we know bro. But accent is definitely related.
😂😂😂😂
Canada has a lot of immigrants as well.
It's mad to hear the accent!!
Lived all my life in Newfoundland. This just sounds normal to me.
@@oobaka1967 I'm from da Pearl and yeah he does sound like he's from a few hours out of town.
@@oobaka1967that's mad, he sounds like the locals in my village in Ireland. Be interesting to know the names of the people there!?
@@zelaht2778 mostly irish, cornish, french and a few portuguese names. the grand banks cod fishery was a major prize during the age of exploration/colonization.
I can always spot a Newfie accent anywhere in Canada.
I work with so many Newfies out here in the prairies. You get two of them talking to eachother and you can't understand them at all. But they'll give you the shirt off their back if you needed
That’s so cool. I’m Irish, and it’s fascinating hearing most of his accent sound like west Ireland, but with what sounds like almost Southern American influence?
Edit: ok guys piss off I suck at identifying accent locations apparently please stop replying good lord
Most Irish emigrants to Newfoundland originally came from the counties of Wexford, Waterford and Kilkenny - so the south-east, not the west. As a Wexford man myself, I can confirm it sounds a lot like all the accents mashed together.
@@thecrealogist8389 Interesting, I was just saying because I have family from the West and his accent sounds similar to theirs
I think you mean ... Mainland Canadian influence? Or were you trying to say *the American South" as in Alabama, Mississippi and the like.
There's no substantial historical connection between Newfoundland and the American South. However, there is one PARALLEL. The southern drawl accent and dialect - and the nearby Appalachian one - were heavily influenced by large numbers of non-English British settlers. But for the south, it was not heavily Scottish folks.
That said, the accent has shifted much more in the south since those times. The Irish immigration to Newfoundland was bigger, more recent and there's the island effect (they were more isolated.)
Linguistics is complicated.
@@RobespierreThePoof i meant american south, like the stereotypical cowboy drawl. I wasn’t implying that there were a lot of people coming from there, i highly doubt it, just that the accent is similar
I do hear us south, but this could be because of parts of thr accents retained in the US, and lost in Ireland.
if you listen to some newfoundland music you can definetely hear the irish influnce
loads of Irish folk bands out of Newfoundland
@xico9438 ya I like rum ragged and great big sea. I know they're not as irish influenced. But still 2 great bands
I love it boy!
That's because so many people from the Maritime provinces were taught to play instruments and sing. People have kitchen parties and dances at halls. Lots of great food, drink, dancing, and pretty women who love to dance. Great times.
A lot of the Irish that migrated brought their instruments with them
"It's not as noticeable down around Witless Bay where I's from", he says, sounding like he's from County Cork
Newfoundlanders are some of the best and nicest people in Canada, arguably the world. And they have the sweetest women of all time hands down.
Thanks 😉
And the very very best most beautiful dogs in the world. Newfies are love ❤❤❤
You had me at women.
@@nickelk2006 😂😂
They can be spicy too
That's amazing!really thought I was listening to a lad from Ireland,I'm irish an always wanted to go to newfoundland but after this I'm def going!!! Deadly👍
I went to see Come From Away recently and I spent the first half wondering why they'd done a Canadian setting with Irish accents. I had no idea that was the Newfoundland accent.
As a mainlander that's spent time there I realized there's actually a couple really distinct accents there that we kinda lump together as a whole.
And a Gander Newfoundland accent. It varies from town to town.
People saying its hard to understand... Honestly im from manchester in england, i do speak some languages, but i found him perfectly comprehensible 🤷♂️ its literally an AMAZING accent, i love it.
Wooo!🤘🍻 I'm a Newfie!! And Buddy is absolutely right! There are old skippers from around the bay that you can't understand what they are saying! But they are always laughing and having a good time, so it's not hard to get along with anyone!:)
I’ve got an uncle that I need a translator for lol. He lives in hillview. Mom and nan understand him, but i can’t understand a word. He talks too fast .
He also lives with a horse.
Everybody loves Newfies even us French Acadians.
You got to do more. Videos on this i all way I wanted to visit Newfoundland I knew back in the 90s they were Irish there, but never heard their accent
Loads more videos on the way!
@@davyholden Sweet
as a newfie i promise you, you are not missing much in terms of sights lmao. best view is cabot tower at night, you can see all of downtown. but that's about it lmao
Love your videos thank you 😊@@davyholden
I lived in newfoundland for 4 years. Amazingly nice and hospitable people on the rock. I'm from Ireland and when I first landed at the airport in St John's I thought our taxi driver was also Irish when he spoke to us lol. Cbs is a beautiful place.
That's Class! As I said myself, if I'd never heard of Newfies and you told me it was an accent from, say, an island off the west coast id believe it 100% 😂
'ere, l'uh!
Whatcha gotta understand is dat in Noofnlan dere's a pile of diffren accents, right?
I mean, I'm from da bottom o' da Bay in Fortune Bay on da Burin Peninsula and we talks different den dat feller too, wha?
Now, let me switch back to a more accessible English-
There are multiple regional accents in Newfoundland- generally identified by either Peninsula or Bay- which will have a variant of one European accent or another. For example, where I'm from it tends to be an older form of an English accent but one only has to travel about an hour, an hour and a half to encounter people with a French accent or even a mild Scots one.
The gentleman in this clip is clearly from the Avalon Peninsula near the Irish loop which is also known as the Southern Shore.
Now, having grown up in that diverse linguistic environment about 40 years ago, I can attest that his accent and his experience is correct where the closer one is to Town and the younger one is the weaker the accent has become.
In any case, greetings from Newfoundland I hope you're all doing well.
Oh and one final note -
The apostrophe is actually the 27th letter of the Newfoundland alphabet.
Its not just the accent but also the expressions.
Yes. Word usage and phrases vary in Newfoundland depending on the town.
You can see them taken aback a little bit when he says townie, cause we say that all the time in the Irish countryside
@@fleetwoodcraic4235 Yeah. I wonder do Newfies say Culchie aswell?
In South Boston, locally called "Southie" the population was so thoroughly Irish that even 50-100 years later third generation Americans whose parents had never been to Ireland spoke with an Irish accent. My great grandparents came from Galway over 120 years ago and some of their grandchildren who were born and grew up in Southie had Irish accents.
But you know nothing of Ireland
@@doobydootooWhat's your point? He's talking about accents not cultural knowledge. Also, how do you know what he knows?
I've seen The Town
AH YOU AH CAAHHHHPP?!??
@@doobydootoogood thing he didn’t mention anything about it ya mouth breather!
I hear Irish, Canadian and Dutch. Very interesting, never heard a Newfoundalander before.
The Dutch invaded Newfoundland.
@@johnbrowne2170 clearly I'm more cultured than educated in history!
I greatly appreciate the subtitles for the Newfie. I work with them all the time and still can barely understand a word haha 😅
Placentia bay is another area where the accent is extremely strong. We’ve lived there for generations and I think you’d love the amount of history that’s there. From battles with the French, the site of where the Atlantic Charter was signed during WW2, and Argentia naval base, you’d have a gold mine to pick through!
Just anywhere around the bay in general
The accent is different in different areas of the island. What he is saying about the southern shore is certainly true. However Most of my family came from England. The accent is not the same in Chance Cove, Trinity Bay. They dont call his area the Irish Loop for nothing.
Him talking about accents changing only half an hours drive away is the same where i come from, Western Scotland. Here in Ayrshire you go one or two towns away and get a different accent, and if you keep going it keeps changing. So you can tell where in Ayrshire someone is from by the variations in their accent.
Same in Ireland and England. Accents vary even in Liverpool and Newcastle depending on the side of town. An accent in Belfast is different from Derry, Dublin, or Cork.
@@BunnyWatson-k1w Yeah, totally.
Ok.
That’s a real accent ?
Holy cow.
I’d heard of this thing with the Irish accent in Newfoundland and some of the islands there but I wasn’t expecting a full on west of Ireland with a North American twang. ❤
It’s cool. 😎
we don't all have it so thick as that and its starting to fade away more and more it seems as time goes on.
Newfoundland proud
It's a varied accent across the whole island and depending on how urbanized the area is.
this is the average bayman's accent. it differs slightly bay to bay, my nan is from a different bay than buddy here is and her accent is more... i don't even know how to put it without typing it out lmao so here we go
"she'd tahk loike dis n dat n d'odder ting, shur b'y yu'd probly ave a ard toime understan'in 'er"
(translation: she'd talk like this and that and the other thing, sure b'y [newfie slang, just pronounced "bye"] you'd probably have a hard time understanding her.)
some older baymen have VERY heavy accents that even someone like me has a little difficulty understanding lmao, but in the city not many people have bay accents unless they were raised out 'round the bay.
we also talk incredibly fast compared to americans and mainlanders lmao. buddy here is talking at a pretty normal pace for newfies, but i knows other b'ys who talks faster than this (myself included depending on how energetic i'm feeling lmao)
I'm overjoyed to have moved to NL. So welcoming, such emphasis on arts & culture, and I think thats rooted in the Irish way.
It's a weird welcome though, warm and immediate, but you'll always be a come from away. Think you have to be like third or fourth generation before you're one of them.
@@MisterPerson-fk1txa blow in, Ireland counties are like that...
And wrap all the way around up to St. Vincent’s, Gaskiers, St.Mary’s proper and Riverhead areas and the accent is very thick still in those areas.
Just to put in a word about the Irish in other parts of Canada, for most of the 19th century the Irish were the single largest European group in Upper Canada; i.e., Ontario. Not until 1891 were there more English-born than Irish-born people living in Canada.
Yes. The Irish also built much of the infrastructure in Upper Canada (Ontario). My Dad's Irish family settled in Cannington in 1804. The homestead still stands on the farm outside of town. My family name is on 50% of the headstones in the surrounding area. The Irish were the backbone of the economy.
*Protestant Irish. About 2/3 of the Irish who came to Canada over the years up to the 1930s were Protestants. Mine came to “Upper Canada” in 1820s. Presbyterians from County Cavan.
This explains a LOT!
Watchin Shoresy, was think "Why tge f**k does Hitch sound Irish when he's from Newfound?
I was at a banquet with the guy who plays Hitch last Saturday. He got inducted into the Hockey NL Hall of Fame. I was there because my late step-father Carl Lake was inducted in the media category.
I didn't notice Hitch at first but my hubby went right up to him at the bar and was like "Fuck. You're the b'y in Shorsey!"
Yeah, it’s really sad. You hardly ever hear Irish spoken Newfoundland anymore.
When I was a kid, you basically only heard the old timers speak Irish. Everybody knew Irish words needed to expressed displeasure, But nowadays, the only Irish, you ever hear, at least, in Newfoundland, is the odd swear word.
We lost something important when we lost our ability to speak Irish. It was something cultural that spoke of a tightknit and very supportive community system.
Agreed. We do still use some words (streel, sleveen) but most of it is gone now.
Thank God for subtitles!😊
I’m English but my grandpa is from fortune, Newfoundland and considered himself English/irish. He married my nan who is from England obviously and they moved back. He considered himself more English than Irish and a lot of Newfoundlanders are English and Irish mix
Well for one you can tell he’s Canadian by the flannel 👚 lol and baseball 🧢 cap….dead give away, lol. When Newfoundlanders talk fast, all one can do is smile and nod knowing I didn’t understand a word they said lol 😂
I'm Irish and can understand him perfectly.
This has just blown my mind !! Unbelievable!
After he said "When you leave..." I had no clue what any of his words were from that point out
You not irish? I think that helps a lot still a bit muddled but its a weird mixture of different accents
Many old timers in fishing villages talk like that. You understand maybe 50% of what they are saying.
@@ciaranbyrne6255 nope, American. I'm pretty decent with understanding accents, as I've lived abroad in the past and currently live in a pretty international city, but I was no match for this dude. 😆
Fuck me boy , he sounds Irish , Jaysus that's mad , come ere , is it an emotional thing with them having Irish Ancestry, or are they no really bothered about it ???
Newfoundlanders are very proud of the Irish heritage. We visited Ireland a few years ago and I’ve never felt so at home, being so far away from home. ❤
He sounds like a pikey😂
I could tell you stories about how my grandmother described protestants that would make you blush.That sentiment died out in my generation but I never saw picture of the queen in any of our family's homes😂
@@rickcorcoran543 Me grandfadder is 97 and still don't have a good thing to say about the Protestants.
Don't think buddy will ever change that opinion either lol
Oh, the Irish ancestry is VERY celebrated here and we're very proud of it!
Lovin' how Davey is lovin' Mr. Witless Bay's accent !!!
Oh my God😂 this is brilliant 🧚♂️🇮🇪☘️
Closest thing to wexford accent ever
y'aright hun
Moved to NL 2009 for school. Have to say it took me a while to figure out what the different dialects were. Not to mention NL specific words and phrases like « Skeet », « whattya-at? », « b’y », and my favourite « dis is it ».
She's gone n'y, she's gone!😂
Ya skeet
@@dessieoleary280 funny story when I was at CoNA heard that word and had to ask my classmates what a “skeet” was. Learned many words while in college 😂
i always forget that skeet is a newfie word, and i've lived here my entire life! born and raised lmao
Did you get to try screech? How about seal flipper pie? How about cod tongue?
Southern, Canadian and Irish all in one. That's mad! I can understand what he's saying without the subs... yet, i'm still reading to be sure 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
You can really hear how the southern accent formed from Irish and English accent.
This is fantastic UA-cam site. Your top class scut. Scut in a good way.
hi davy. i was just wondering, there’s a photograph of Cathal Brugha when he passed away, being guarded by members of the Cumann na mBan. one of those women is my great grandmother, and i feel the Cumann Na mBan is relatively forgotten about, so could you do a video on them?
He should be our nations newsreader then we could smile in perfect ignorance 😂
I grew up in Placentia. I can remember visiting places in Europe 15-20 years ago and nobody believed me when I said I was Canadian. Everyone I met was convinced I was Irish and it made me mad at the time because I thought “I sound nothing like that!” 😂
the newfoundland accent is a blend of British, Irish, French and even some American Slang It’s a unique dialect. And even amongst us it can sound drastically different blemish in where you are from.
Don't forget the Scottish war brides brought here. The military base of American soldiers don't forget. Babies babies babies
That's a bas irish accent not French English but irish
Did this video just go right over your head.?
He sounds Irish.
That's the whole point of the video.
It sounds like Irish with a slight hint of Australian, you can see how Irish morphed into Australia.
As an Irish person this guy sounds almost identical to a waterford accent ! It's all I can hear
Brilliant! When I was a child on family holidays I can remember people asking my mum if she was Canadian. She's Northen Irish!
Im northern Irish, and being from co Antrim, it's not a great accent 😅. But I was on holiday in Turkey once and got talking to a lady from England and her adult daughter and she comes off with "oh I can't understand you Scottish people" I laughed and said I'm not Scottish, thinking that being English and therefore a close neighbour, her next guess would be that I was northern Irish. Nope, next thing she came off with was "sorry, are you American then" 😵💫 would love to know were in america she thought this accent could even possibly be from 😂
@@Silverstreamhomecrafts Appelachia! Not relevant but a fun fact. I knew a girl from there who had all sorts of NI sayings. It was weird! BTW Co Antrim accent is the best accent. Just sayin'!
We reckon the Canadian/American thing is because we pronounce 'R' but English accents don't. eg drawer...draw.
@@bettybutterbean5759 Appalachia is full of NI descendants apparently so that at least makes some sense! One of my uncles used to say (I have no proof that this is true btw) that hill Billies were called that because they were protestant northern Irish emigrants who then subsequently got named after their fondness for William king of orange who gets called king billy here.
oh lord thats freaky to hear that!! i knew waterford folk had settled in newfoundland, even have our native Bla's over there and the waterford accent in parts but god that accent is ................incredible
I'm from St.johns Newfoundland I love this and what he is saying is totally right the further you get away from St.johns the stronger the accent
How do I find the full interview ?this was awesome !
Davey's Page 👍
It’s actually in between Irish and what Anglo Saxon English would have sounded like, according to linguists
I'm from Maine and while we have a completely different accent journey, the Maine accent from the part closest to Newfoundland is similarly striking 😁 it's descended from a specific English accent.
I now want to hear this guy talking with an old Downeast lobsterman. 😁
this is all so fascinating to me. i'm from a way different place, the Appalachian part of Kentucky, which is yet another region where waves of English, German and Scots Irish immigrants settled over the centuries, then they hunkered down in remote hollers tucked up in the mountains for nigh on 500 years by theirselves, and they got weird, lol. and that's where us Appalachians come from, and why the rest of the US struggles to understand our accents too. i can understand these Newfie fellers with no problem though, no subtitles needed for this hillbilly girl, haha. we have such a cool culture here cuz of the Scots Irish influences though, i love it here so much! we talk diff'rnt, we sang diff'rnt, we dance diff'rnt, we say fer instead of for and ye instead of you. and if you get a mite curious and start to look to see why, it almost always is "because Scots Irish", lol. it's a weird region and often highly stereotyped and maligned in popular media, which is a little annoying sometimes. most people in the US ain't got the first clue about who we is and what we do, what life be like, here in Appalachia. i love it though, it's truly an awesome place to live
That accent is really interesting. Sounds a bit like a United States southern accent (like one of the thicker ones)
Which makes sense, since both Newfoundland and the southern United States had a lot of immigration from Ireland.
Each accent group is distinct, but you could definitely pick out similarities like vowel pronunciation.
I'm from witless bay 😲
Sounds wonderful, just love the soft lilt ☘️
Newfie born n raised. Baymen n townie roots
There's a Newfie with a hockey channel, and half the reason I like watching him is his accent. The other half is a combination of the nicknames and the quality commentary
Baymen are the most Irish sounding newfies you will ever hear especially up by lawn
Depends on the Bay and what side of the Island you are talking about.... go to Bay St George on the West Coast and you will be hard pressed to hear an Irish accent, French-Acadian is very predominant though
Alot of people from St.John's have a strong Irish Accents and if you are born and raised in St.John's you would know the difference to what part of the city your from so your a bit off there my friend you been around the bay to long and never really explored in and around St.John's you go to the battery or Pleasantville , Quidi Vidi , Torbay , Logybay ,and if you go up the southern shore
100% Me from Torbay and my cousin from Flatrock getting mistaken for Irish when abroad
@@marsbolcan9311 My accent was once mistaken as Jamaican, for god's sake. I've lived in Sin Jahns my entire life (so far)
This there a place to watch the whole interview.
Davy's page 👍
He sounds like he would cut silage and eat bacon and cabbage.😮
It’s like an Irish accent, with a little “oh ya you betcha” sprinkled on top
He has a real mix of Irish accents
Yea.. he's got a midlands accent in there with a bit of Cork and Mayo.
That’s the maddest accent I’ve ever heard
reminds me of southern appalachian! beautiful accent
I don't know what he's on about but hearing him tickles me!
Love it ! You can take the man out of the bog but you can’t take the bog out of the man 😂
Those subtitles were doing some heavy lifting lol
I can hear 2 uk accent as well as irish and a southern usa one also. Lol thats a wild accent 😂😂
For more from NL check out the late great NL musician, Paddy Gearin singing Old Polina. His earliest video was shot in 1953 on a wharf full of kids and fishermen in Fermeuse. One of them started dancing and singing. NL is beautiful.
The accents vary ALOT on the East Coast.
As a newf the sub titles are cracking me up
Thank goodness for subtitles
I'm from Co. Louth and honestly, this man just sounds like a really fast talking man from Limerick who grew up in Mayo lol
Hes sounds like a mix of Irish and Canadian
Cant stop watching this video, deadly , sounds irish , mad ❤
I think it's like a Carlow accent
It's just a red neck canadian accent.
I’m a pure Newfoundlander but I don’t speak that way. Some people just pour it on heavy.
depends on where you're from. My uncle lives north of Gander, makes this guy sound like he was speaking the queens english.
witless bay. incredible 🎉😅
Iam from st.johns I don't sound nothing like that
Cause your a townie. So tell me down town crowd don't have a accent. Gen X mostly picked up heavy accent from our parents. Younger ones not so much.
I like how Newfoundland has Orange lodges
It’s 50/50 English and Irish. West Country English mostly. The Irish part always gets blown out of proportion.
I’m a townie born and bread outta mount pearl!
Ehh from petty harbour by
He's a baymen
LIke an aussie, texan and a western irish all in one
Are you gonna upload the whole interview? im just north of bay bulls.
Bit of Sth Wicklow into Wexford around Gorey in that accent.
When I was over there 15yrs ago I found everyone has the wexford / Waterford accent in the South of NL, but in the North its softer like Gorey.
@cemu1065 That's gas. I'm from Westmeath so wouldn't be as familiar with the SE but go to WW WX once a month so could hear the sing song like accent.
@@davidsmyth8647 I tell ya, its scary how close to our accent they are, especially the music, everything is trad music. Honestly, they are more Irish than we are 😳😳😉
@cemu1065 I definitely going to go there sometime so. Should get a bunch of them over for the Fleadh or Willie Clancy festival.
@@davidsmyth8647 ya'll have no shortage of singers/musicians. Very easy going bunch of people too.
What?
Joking. I love the Irish. 🏴🏴🏴
In the late 80s when serving in the UK Military I visited Newfoundland (Not too far from St Johns) for training.
Went into 'town' on our only day off and was gobsmacked to hear two kids agruing over who "Dis Boike" belonged to! 😂 🚴
Lovely place, lovely folks.
There’s a lot of influence from the English West Country settlers too, not just Irish. There is actually a Wessex Society in NFLD, and the Orange Order too lol. It’s pretty much 50/50 with a little Scottish. The old flag is green, white and pink after all.
My Irish ancestor emigrated to Newfoundland in 1735. My newf cousins sound SO Southern Irish!!!
I lived in Texas for about a year and now I live in Ireland for the past six years, and I'm a linguist so I couldn't help but gather some linguistic data over time spent in the two countries.
I'm not familiar with all the accents of Ireland but the way he said boy with the 'a fada' sound makes me think - south of Ireland (I l've heard Corkonians use that sound a few times that I interacted with them).
Then, some of his accent does sound like the US South, but that's not surprising either, since many Irish historically emigrated to the US South too and contributed to the southern US accent.
Now in Ireland, you don't hear exactly the kind of accent they speak in the southern US, but his "twang" does somewhat remind me of the news report about the men from Kerry whose sheep were stolen and their accent (everyone in Ireland must know of this video 😅).
Also, a prominent feature of Irish language (and just so I'm clear, I don't mean the Irish accent of English, but the native Irish Gaelic language) is euphony, which means changing the sounds of the words so they blend more easily into connected speech.
The Irish transpose this feature partially onto how they speak English (well, they do it as much as English allows to), so they use quite a bit more of connected speech in English as well. Though, nowadays the accent has become a bit more diluted in urban areas, I'd say. And by diluted I mean there are global influences from other English accents (standard UK and US accents).
Can't understand a ting once ya hits Trepassey. lol
I was thinking the exact same thing hahahah😂😂
Nuttin' to do up dere, shur, 'cept go oot to da co-ove for a kenn a co-oke.
oh buddy you should hear me nan an pop from harebay (arebay, they don't pronounce their Hs)... lard jesus...
@@fr00tiie Das' where me fadder's fambly is from!
What part of Ireland is Davy from? Because the Newfie guy's accent aounds so like Davy's, but v different from my mother's Mayo accent...
So I'm thinking the Irish who went to Newfoundland must hve been from Davy's part of Ireland?
A great deal of Irish came over to Newfoundland after 1763 due to the end of the Seven Years War. It's when England took sole control over the Colonies of North America. This led to the explusion of Newfoundland's primary population: Rural French colonialists. The Parisian colonists all settled in Montreal and Quebec City, and in later waves the lesser-classes could only afford landfall in Newfoundland. The British allowed the Quebecois to remain, but expelled all the 'Acadians' to the Louisiana line, which is where the 'Cajun' peoples and dialect come from- Cajun is just the word 'Acadian' changed through time.
Irish accents are stubborn as muck 😛 if you see the video on YT entitled something like "Mingy Men", Lebanese folk who worked closely or grew up with the Irish UNICIL (UN Peacekeepers) their accents are *wild*. My uncle was a commandant in the Peacekeepers in the late 70s early 80s and decades of Irish support have really impacted these accents so strongly.
Saw a video (by Beryl Shereshewsky) on here, one of many where guests from worldwide share their own clips to show and tell foods from their cuisines, cultures or lives. I remember a German lady who had lived in Ireland 20 years and just moved back to Ireland. My god did she absorb Irish inflections insanely.
Colonisers may try to stamp it out but it aint going nowhere :P
Potato 🥔 heads 😅