Traditional Newfy Talk: The First English Language of North America - Softcover

The rich heritage and cultural importance of Newfoundland English is preserved in this new dictionary. Author R. A. Bragg presents 1,500 fully annotated entries in both Newfy to English and English to Newfy translations, complete with usage and pronunciation guides and three maps. As this dictionary shows, traditional Newfy talk is unique, relevant, and altogether "wunnerfo."

A sixth-generation descendant of southwest Newfoundland, Russell A. Bragg, BA, BEd, MA (Linguistics), National Marshall McLuhan Fellow, claims Suffolk, West Country, Scots Argyll, Channel Islands, and Bay St. George Mi’kmaw ancestry. A graduate thesis on Mi’kmaw at Memorial University, a professional career in coastal Newfoundland, a 600-page science fiction novel in the USA, and introductions to the 2013 republishing of Rev. Dr. Silas T. Rand’sDictionary of the Language of the Micmac Indians and Jeremiah S. Clark’sMicmac Dictionary preceded Traditional Newfy Talk. Russell lives in Lawrencetown, Nova Scotia.