Originally Posted By: Newf
If you fella's ever want to get a awful skewed veiw of the english language...or maybe an awful headache trying figure what's being relayed....Just come to Newfoundland,not to the city where people want to sound like those they hear on the tele....but to the bay town's ,the cove's and all point's in between ,with a mix of English ,Irish,Scotch,French,Portugese and maybe a little native tounge thrown in for good measure tis sure to shag up a angashore,or even a jackatar if'n e's come from d yudder side o ta gut......sad thing about it though ,is that it's being lost with the younger generation......there's town's not far from where I live that I would have to translate for my 32 year old wife.....That's only five year's younger than myself


And you don't put apostrophes in plurals, like bays, towns, years and coves. Those are common mistake's.

P.S. Why do we say I'm six foot, two inches tall but a room is 12 feet by 14 feet? Foot is singular, feet is plural, yes????

Last edited by Jim Legg; 03/22/10 11:00 AM.
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