P.E.I. slang: How to talk like an Islander

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  • Опубліковано 22 лют 2016
  • 10 P.E.I.-isms explained. Bruce Rainnie, host of CBC News: Compass, and weatherman Kevin "Boomer" Gallant picked 10 of those expressions, and explained what they mean. To read the full story: www.cbc.ca/1.3460152
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  • @ronaldmallette
    @ronaldmallette 3 роки тому +6

    I just caught myself doing most of them and I've been off the Island for years!

  • @thecanadianbandit3841
    @thecanadianbandit3841 4 роки тому +8

    I miss these guys on the news

  • @jasongreek2342
    @jasongreek2342 5 років тому +9

    Atlantic Canadians can tell each other apart generally, as well as understand each other even though our dialects tend to differ greatly... but the rest of Canada think we're all from Newfoundland

  • @CODmasterpwnage
    @CODmasterpwnage 7 років тому +28

    When the purple house is now brown :(

    • @Zoey5374
      @Zoey5374 3 роки тому +4

      Anytime I go by there I still look for the purple house. Then I remember that it's brown now. I used to walk by there all the time with my dad, stopping at the duck pond. Not sure if that's the name that people call it, but that's what me and my siblings always called it.

  • @343mandy
    @343mandy 3 роки тому +3

    I remember all those. I am an Islander, even if I live in BC now. I love PEI. ❤️❤️

  • @rachelclark7782
    @rachelclark7782 7 років тому +11

    I have heard in the past that a lot of Scots and Irish were some of the first to live on the island. I come from a place that also was mostly the Scots and Irish and there are so many saying that we share I think that 9 out of 10 of those sayings are used here also.

    • @greggmitchell4173
      @greggmitchell4173 5 років тому +1

      True, my relatives were some of them!

    • @JaneEireann
      @JaneEireann 4 роки тому +1

      I'm Irish and most of this is Irish! Like the last one. I do that all the time 😂

    • @stephanieolsen8148
      @stephanieolsen8148 Рік тому +1

      I think I'm related to most of the people on the island... My people were Scot, Irish, Alsatian, English, Belgian, and Dutch (the Dutch migrated to New Amsterdam first).

    • @colejarvis666
      @colejarvis666 Рік тому +1

      Yup. My family was from Scotland Ireland and New Brunswick. Tons of family here and I've been here for a visit for 3 weeks now. Too good to leave.

  • @Spoopymare
    @Spoopymare Рік тому +4

    As an islander, I have never heard a single one of these phrases.

    • @lancehughes4132
      @lancehughes4132 11 місяців тому +4

      Lol. You would if you really were an Oilander.

    • @Cherri_Muffin
      @Cherri_Muffin 3 місяці тому +1

      I think these are more common the further up west you go. Most of my family is from Tignish and I've mainly heard the inhale bit from the end of the video in basically every conversation with them, but not so much in Charlottetown.

  • @mystosplosion
    @mystosplosion 6 місяців тому +1

    My Newfie nan had that inhale yes. Very soothing sound to me.

  • @AndyB12
    @AndyB12 8 років тому +11

    do Newfie talk next

  • @tobeytransport2802
    @tobeytransport2802 3 роки тому +4

    We say Haich in the Uk too! And the inhale!

  • @Blackjackjk
    @Blackjackjk 6 місяців тому +1

    My father is from pei and has made us pick up these slangs

  • @WILD4X4D
    @WILD4X4D 2 роки тому +2

    Oh my lord I'm laughing, l was born on the island. Raised in northern Quebec. I spent every summer on the island. I still know and use most of these phrases.

  • @kriss939
    @kriss939 5 років тому +4

    I came here for Caribbean islander slang

  • @corgisrule21
    @corgisrule21 6 років тому +2

    My gran used to saw "warsh" when talking about doing laundry or the dishes, but she grew up in Illinois...wonder why she did that the same way?

  • @1978Gargamelmk2
    @1978Gargamelmk2 7 місяців тому +1

    I miss these two, made watching the news worth while..Also when youd meet them out and about espescially together it was always a laugh(Old Dublin)
    Ive said most of those saying except the 'H' and warsh but my step mother says that one.anyways a few more
    Zink- sink
    kwap-Co-op (grocery store)
    Git at it- get to it
    put the pedal to it-hit the gas pedal
    shes slick-slippery or greasy roads
    Slick as snot off a roosters beak- something that slides off a smooth surface
    like a screen door in a submarine- something thats not a good idea
    theres so many more Im only trying to remember ones Ive said but they come out so naturally I dont notice.

  • @thomastherriault6199
    @thomastherriault6199 8 років тому +4

    Gwan, lol. I use that one here in ON. How 'bout Sayurdy?

  • @retroplay5559
    @retroplay5559 3 місяці тому +1

    You’ll hear a lot of those here on the rock too.

  • @victorpena9824
    @victorpena9824 3 роки тому +2

    🤣 Thanks, Gents.. Wish I could make it up to PEI with the wife. Maybe after this pandemic has passed. God Bless us.

  • @brennap337
    @brennap337 6 років тому +2

    I miss them

  • @BitterSweetBarb
    @BitterSweetBarb 3 роки тому +1

    We still have 'boat traffic' from Souris and Wood Islands...

  • @colejarvis666
    @colejarvis666 Рік тому +2

    Shout out to any hughes' out there! Mainly from souris. 😂 been here for 3 weeks and don't want to go back home.

    • @lancehughes4132
      @lancehughes4132 11 місяців тому +1

      Well, there's a Hughes out west here; has a place at Rock Barra. PEI is absolutely beautiful !

  • @sheilakethley5351
    @sheilakethley5351 2 роки тому +1

    I heard number one referred to as an “affirmative inhalation”!

  • @forgivemylaughter
    @forgivemylaughter Рік тому +1

    Never understood why my gf made fun of my H pronunciation haha I didn’t know that was an island thing

  • @elizabethm3477
    @elizabethm3477 8 років тому +3

    oh man! my mom is a true islander hahaha

  • @essenceofwow
    @essenceofwow 4 роки тому +1

    idk if it's just me, but I always said mirrow not mirror

  • @avsmacneill1738
    @avsmacneill1738 3 роки тому +3

    I'm an islander and I never heard one person say any of those things

  • @roshannaidu6313
    @roshannaidu6313 6 років тому +5

    g i came here to see how to talk like a coconut aye

  • @connie1wilson
    @connie1wilson 7 років тому +5

    Some of the idioms sound Irish. G'wan sounds both Irish and Jamaican.

    • @greggmitchell4173
      @greggmitchell4173 5 років тому +4

      Most people on the island are Scottish or Irish.

    • @KylaGrace
      @KylaGrace 11 місяців тому

      Yes and Jamaican patois gets its cadence from the Cork Irish accent@@greggmitchell4173

  • @jonathanarsenault4455
    @jonathanarsenault4455 2 місяці тому

    I'm an islander and live in kentucky

  • @quabledistocficklepo3597
    @quabledistocficklepo3597 6 років тому +3

    What Island? Prince Edward? That's my guess because I asked Google for Atlantic Canadian.

    • @Kintsugi-chan
      @Kintsugi-chan 6 років тому +4

      Quabledistocficklepo ummm the only province with the name Island in it...

    • @Kintsugi-chan
      @Kintsugi-chan 6 років тому +1

      Quabledistocficklepo but yes PEI.

  • @ericarobertson9279
    @ericarobertson9279 4 роки тому +1

    The yes my grandma dose that one so dose my mom

  • @brookeenman6925
    @brookeenman6925 3 роки тому +1

    I live in PEI

  • @FunWithJohn
    @FunWithJohn 7 років тому +3

    (inhale) great job eh!

  • @ximenaflores8407
    @ximenaflores8407 Рік тому +1

    I tried to do the last one and got hiccups :(

  • @Zoey5374
    @Zoey5374 5 років тому +2

    I have heard my dad say turn at the old purple house so many times, but now you can't use it litterly because it's know brown. I always walked by it with my father and I noticed almost immediately when it became brown.

    • @BitterSweetBarb
      @BitterSweetBarb 3 роки тому +2

      It is not the same house either; the purple house was torn down, the brown house is the new one.

  • @17PAT17
    @17PAT17 4 роки тому +1

    My uncle always says “G’wan”

  • @GMHI-Corporation
    @GMHI-Corporation 5 років тому +1

    Every (inhale) yes I do, the dog barks an the cat won’t eat... #peiproblems

  • @emjaaye
    @emjaaye 6 років тому +5

    What islanders never talk like that I am a person from PEI 😐😐😐😐

    • @anjellalo972
      @anjellalo972 5 років тому +2

      @Luca Silva but not all of em

    • @Zoey5374
      @Zoey5374 5 років тому +3

      I'm also from Pei, not everybody talks like that but I have heard multiple people talk like that. It all depends where on the Island you go.

    • @willisryan4576
      @willisryan4576 5 років тому +7

      magine

    • @liamwelsh5565
      @liamwelsh5565 4 роки тому +1

      I find it's more of the older generation and people more up west as well.

    • @garymurphy4598
      @garymurphy4598 4 місяці тому +1

      It's mostly true islanders that talk like that. It's how we know who is and it's an islander.

  • @tanyalocke2332
    @tanyalocke2332 5 років тому +1

    I'm a islander...

  • @johnholmes4363
    @johnholmes4363 4 роки тому +2

    NO FECKING JOBS ON PEI