Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Know what an "alder grabber" is? How about "couldn's"? They're in a new dictionary defining the unique words and phrases sprinkled ...

James McLeod: In the names of places throughout the province, you can hear the centuries of history, the English influences and the legacy of Irish settlement You can save this article by registering ...

It has been said, that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has the most dialects per capita of any region in the world. “The amount of variation is actually very famous among dialectologists,” ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English was first published in 1982, and it still has the power to ...

A smartphone application that promises to make Newfoundland English clearer for confused visitors is available for 99 cents. Whaddaya App translates phrases such as "Buddy's snapped right off, he is" ...

Newfoundland is often referred to as the most homogenous province in Canada, with 98% of its residents speaking English (Decker, 1970). However, the combination of historical migration patterns, the ...