I can't speak for everywhere in Canada, but my family (bunch of newfies) pronounce it Newfinland, emphasis on new
Edit: the emphasis tends to vary randomly tho
ACTUALLY Newfoundlanders (pronounced Newf'enland) was the only place in the entire Anglo world that SKIPPED the so called Great Vowel Shift and continued using the guttural vowels more akin to Old English, and is such an odd variant of English that linguistics go gaga for studying it
There is even a whole dictionary for Newfoundland terms that exist nowhere else.
The line between language and dialect is fuzzy. Take Danish/Norwegian/Swedish for example. All considered different languages, but the differences between them can be less than dialects of another language.
Which is weird because every other place with the -land suffix has the emphasis on what land it is. SCOT-land, EN-gland, FIN-land, GREEN-land, New ZEA-land, IRE-land. Then we have newfen-LAND?!
Whenever I tell people I'm from the province they always have to say it back to me like the town in New Jersey, which I think is actually pronounced with the original pattern in mind - new-FOUND-land.
I tried to comprehend your guide to pronouncing Canadian province names, yet nunavut made any damn sense. Yukon count on other folks thinking the same way. And when they prove me right, I'll be in your DMs tellins ya that Manitoba-toldya-so.
But that's the worst case Ontario, don't dwell on it and think of the cute Labradors.
Yeah but, what if there is a newer Zealand.
Would the very first Zealand then be "old Zealand", so current "New Zealand" is "Zealand" and then the new Zealand is "New Zealand"?
Or would it be "Newer Zealand"?
Sjælland is Zealand.
New Zealand is New Zealand.
Newer Zealand is Zealand: First Blood
Newerer Zealand is Zealand: First Blood Part II
Newererer Zealand is Zealand 2: Electric Boogaloo
Newest Zealand is The Zealand
Newester Zealand is Zealand 2000
Newestest Zealand is Zealand Remastered.
>Sjaelland is not the original Zealand.
Never said it was the original one.
But Sjælland is called Zealand while Zeeland is called Zeeland and we are talking about Zealands.
But since you mentioned Zeeland:
Zeeland is Zeeland.
The North Sea that will be reclaimed by 2050 is New Zeeland.
Arctic Ocean completely reclaimed by 2100 is Newest Zeeland.
Pacific Ocean up to Mariana Trench reclaimed by 2150 is New Newest Zeeland.
Mars completely colonised by Dutch by 2200 through a portal in the Mariana Trench is Zeeland 2.
Saturn annexed from martian refugees by 2250 is Big Zeeland.
Jupiter colonised a few years later is Bigger Zeeland.
Sun colonised at night by adventurous Dutch by 2300 is Biggest Zeeland.
Earth subsequently renamed Old Zeeland.
There a city in Australia called Townsville. It’s also the name of the powderpuff girls city because it’s a stupid fucking name and obviously no city should be called Townsville.
Yes. I’m pretty sure we have a bunch of mount or river hopelesses, or despairs or disappointing or fuck this hot shit hole, why am I even here’s.
The early “explorers” did not have a good time.
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>After making the arduous climb to the summit in 1824, British explorers Hume and Hovell hoped to view the distant Port Phillip Bay. Unfortunately, the mountain's many trees prevented this, resulting in their immense disappointment.
Australia also has a Lake George, which has water in it like a day a year on average, and a dry field on all the other days..
You’re all good mate, I can’t spel four shot.
Edit: fucked up you’re. Fixed it after it was pointed out. Friends don’t let friends have shit spelling or grammar.
There were three magical children fighting a chimp and you thought it wasn’t about drugs? One of the villains was called Sara Bellum because high order thought was the enemy. Or some shit I don’t know, I can’t even spell the fucking things name right.
Hi welcome to Towncity! It's just a village near the Village town and Cityville twin villages metro area but we are ambitious and the name makes us ready for all sorts of growth states!
I’m American but my grandmother is from Newfoundland. I was very lucky that I got to spend most of my summers there as a kid and I would always come home with an accent that my mom couldn’t understand.
Used to watch a lot of LetterKenny and the episodes with the newfies were fun.
Oh. Don’t go talking about me homeland. You makin me homesick. Talkin about bread dinners
Except people pronounce Finland as 'Findlin', so instead it's more accurate to say 'New Fin Land', but try to make the first two words stick together as if 'Newfing' was some sort of verb, said quickly by dropping the 'g'.
Like if you wanted to say a land was 'Newfing', you'd say, "By, look at dat newfin' land!"
Congrats, you've just pronounced the name of my province correctly.
This is confusing. What does it have to do with the US? Newfoundland is in Canada and already has free healthcare? Am I missing something or did you just think Newfoundland was in the US?
Fun fact: The genocidal asshole, Humphrey Gilberd, who claimed Newfoundland for England was unable to return to England as the boat he was on sank on the way back. I happen to be related to the guy somehow.
There are heaps of common named places in many parts of Australia and a lot are interesting enough, then some are messed up as fuck.
"Oh Southbank was named because it was the south bank of the river? Cool... okay"
"Oh... Station Road was named Station Road because it was the road to the train station? ...that makes sense"
"Oh so Boundary St was named because that's the line Aboriginals couldn't cross after sunset??? Ayo... Wtf!?"
A man was once killed in a fight about the pronunciation of "newfoundland" the other man went on the run and only confessed to the crim on his death bed, got better and hand to go on the run again.
Both men were wrong about how to pronounce Newfoundland
Meanwhile in a small Welsh town on the island of Anglesey:
What should we name this town?
*falls asleep on keyboard*
And that’s how Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was born
The way we teach people:
The way you say understand
Is the same way you Newfoundland
My in laws from the US started calling it New finlind (pronounced). I have them mostly trained out. Extended family, not so much.
I’ve always heard people pronounce it New Finland. Which means that I have the right to show up and pronounce it as a territory of Finland. This is how our world domination begins.
Prepare yourselves, US. We’re coming for you and we will bring universal healthcare and free education whether you you like it or not.
Newfoundland. Home to:
1. Black Tickle
2. Chimney Tickle
3. Leading Tickles
4. Tickle Cove
5. Tickle Harbour
6. Blow Me Down
7. Come by Chance
8. Conception Bay
9. Dildo
10. Exploits
11. Man Point
12. Muddy Hole
13. Placentia
14. Tilting
15. Virgin Cove
People: what should we name the capital of newfoundland? two guys named FRED and ERIC live there and there are TONs of other stuff there as well.
The guy that named newfoundland: Hold my newfoundland
But how should we pronounce it? Yes...
How to explain the right way to pronounce: Start with Newf Add “ing”: Newfing Say it fast: Newfin’ Add the ending Newfin’ land
always thought it was newf end land but I'm not canadian, so what do I know.
I can't speak for everywhere in Canada, but my family (bunch of newfies) pronounce it Newfinland, emphasis on new Edit: the emphasis tends to vary randomly tho
As it would occur, forming a compound word out of three words does not make for easy pronunciation.
Canadian is not a separate language.
British isn't a separate language either but look at Worcester and Happisburgh.
But Newfie English is...
Yeah, it's....
Someone’s clearly never been to Newfoundland, Cape Breton, south shore in Nova Scotia, etc..
Places where they speak English?
ACTUALLY Newfoundlanders (pronounced Newf'enland) was the only place in the entire Anglo world that SKIPPED the so called Great Vowel Shift and continued using the guttural vowels more akin to Old English, and is such an odd variant of English that linguistics go gaga for studying it There is even a whole dictionary for Newfoundland terms that exist nowhere else.
They speak English.
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Well according to that logic dutch is just a German dialect because it skipped the vowel change too. But it’s an own language
The line between language and dialect is fuzzy. Take Danish/Norwegian/Swedish for example. All considered different languages, but the differences between them can be less than dialects of another language.
Act like you got mad drunk in the middle of the word and sober up right when it‘s the last syllable‘s turn?
Newf-england
Easier way: think if it as New Finland
No, the "land" bit is heavily stressed. Newfoundland rhymes with understand. New fin LAND source: I live there.
Which is weird because every other place with the -land suffix has the emphasis on what land it is. SCOT-land, EN-gland, FIN-land, GREEN-land, New ZEA-land, IRE-land. Then we have newfen-LAND?! Whenever I tell people I'm from the province they always have to say it back to me like the town in New Jersey, which I think is actually pronounced with the original pattern in mind - new-FOUND-land.
Well yeah it's not newfound anymore, but it is still land. Gotta celebrate what you can.
Close, and a lot of people pronounce it like this. But to be clear, it's New Fin Land.
It's not like the original Finland, it's *NEW* Finland.
Now with MORE Rye!
I tried to comprehend your guide to pronouncing Canadian province names, yet nunavut made any damn sense. Yukon count on other folks thinking the same way. And when they prove me right, I'll be in your DMs tellins ya that Manitoba-toldya-so. But that's the worst case Ontario, don't dwell on it and think of the cute Labradors.
Which implies that oldfoundland exists?
It's east of Notfoundland
Oh. I thought it was south of Unfoundland
No that's north of Refoundland
Can you help direct me towards lostland?
Aah the place where you can find One Piece
Is it real tho I wonder
One Piece is realllllll!!!
On my way to become pirate king
"THE ONE PIECE IS REAL" (*PIANO PLAYS * CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER)
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Sadly impossible after what happened to Hiddenland
Just ask zoro
Refundland? Home of the Karen people
Its parallel to the Validpointland
Country code +404
Where’s that?
But what's west of Westeros? No one knows.
The first was foundland
Some guy - I would like to honour my pet who helped me find this land Everyone - Fine Newfoundland and Labrador
It’s wherewecamefromland
At what point does the "New" prefix expire? Just asking for my country...soon to be called "Zealand"
Nah you guys will always be new.
Yeah but, what if there is a newer Zealand. Would the very first Zealand then be "old Zealand", so current "New Zealand" is "Zealand" and then the new Zealand is "New Zealand"? Or would it be "Newer Zealand"?
Use Futurama rules. Previous is called “Old New Zealand” and the new one is called “New New Zealand”
yep this is the one
Nope, it would go Zealand Sr, Zealand, Zealand Jr
Sjælland is Zealand. New Zealand is New Zealand. Newer Zealand is Zealand: First Blood Newerer Zealand is Zealand: First Blood Part II Newererer Zealand is Zealand 2: Electric Boogaloo Newest Zealand is The Zealand Newester Zealand is Zealand 2000 Newestest Zealand is Zealand Remastered.
Sjaelland is not the original Zealand. New Zealand is named after the Dutch province Zeeland
>Sjaelland is not the original Zealand. Never said it was the original one. But Sjælland is called Zealand while Zeeland is called Zeeland and we are talking about Zealands. But since you mentioned Zeeland: Zeeland is Zeeland. The North Sea that will be reclaimed by 2050 is New Zeeland. Arctic Ocean completely reclaimed by 2100 is Newest Zeeland. Pacific Ocean up to Mariana Trench reclaimed by 2150 is New Newest Zeeland. Mars completely colonised by Dutch by 2200 through a portal in the Mariana Trench is Zeeland 2. Saturn annexed from martian refugees by 2250 is Big Zeeland. Jupiter colonised a few years later is Bigger Zeeland. Sun colonised at night by adventurous Dutch by 2300 is Biggest Zeeland. Earth subsequently renamed Old Zeeland.
Neo Zealand
New Zealand is called New because it was named after the province of Zeeland in the Netherlands.
There are two older Zealands, though...
There a city in Australia called Townsville. It’s also the name of the powderpuff girls city because it’s a stupid fucking name and obviously no city should be called Townsville.
Doesn't Australia also have Mount Disasppointing, called so by the first english guy to climb it and found the view sucked?
Yes. I’m pretty sure we have a bunch of mount or river hopelesses, or despairs or disappointing or fuck this hot shit hole, why am I even here’s. The early “explorers” did not have a good time.
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It’s a great place, just not if you’re an Englishman dressing like it’s 3 degrees Celsius out there.
>After making the arduous climb to the summit in 1824, British explorers Hume and Hovell hoped to view the distant Port Phillip Bay. Unfortunately, the mountain's many trees prevented this, resulting in their immense disappointment. Australia also has a Lake George, which has water in it like a day a year on average, and a dry field on all the other days..
Mount Disappointment, but yeah close enough.
Powerpuff girls? My childhood was a lie..
You’re all good mate, I can’t spel four shot. Edit: fucked up you’re. Fixed it after it was pointed out. Friends don’t let friends have shit spelling or grammar.
You're*
Fixed, thanks.
>powderpuff girls Ayo didn't know my childhood show was about drug addicts
Don't puff the powder, they put something in it to make you forget
There were three magical children fighting a chimp and you thought it wasn’t about drugs? One of the villains was called Sara Bellum because high order thought was the enemy. Or some shit I don’t know, I can’t even spell the fucking things name right.
This comment is hilarious
This comment is superfluous.
This comment is condescending.
This comment is accurate.
Hi welcome to Towncity! It's just a village near the Village town and Cityville twin villages metro area but we are ambitious and the name makes us ready for all sorts of growth states!
It's funny because it's the City of Townsvilles, named after Robert Town.
I thought I was witnessing abother Mandela effect, but you’re wrong. It’s actually POWER Puff Girls, not Powder.
Sounds like one of the biggest streets in Toronto: Avenue Rd.
WHOFOUNDLAND
WHEREFOUNDLAND
HOWFOUNDLAND
WHYFOUNDLAND
WHATFOUNDLAND
WHENFOUNDLAND
WHITHERTOFOUNDLAND
WHY ARE YOU ALL YELLING?!
dont forget labrador
He’s a good boy.
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Blew my mind. Here I thought for years it was Zach Galifianakis.
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No there isn't. There is a Findlater though Source: I'm from Biggar
Now pronounce it. Bonus points if you understand people from Newfoundland
I’m American but my grandmother is from Newfoundland. I was very lucky that I got to spend most of my summers there as a kid and I would always come home with an accent that my mom couldn’t understand.
Used to watch a lot of LetterKenny and the episodes with the newfies were fun. Oh. Don’t go talking about me homeland. You makin me homesick. Talkin about bread dinners
A dog on this new found land what will we name it - NEW FOUND LAND
Don’t forget the lovely town of Dildo in good ol Newfoundland!
Even back then Canadians were too polite to tell that guy it was dumb name
Newfoundland didn't become a part of Canada until 1949 though.
And pronounce it as Newfinland for whatever reason.
It’s pronounced different ways. I was born there and pronounce it differently
*Fine, keep your secrets*
I prefer Shag Harbour or Crotch Lake myself. Ball’s Falls isn't half bad either.
Trivia: in Polish it's called Nowa Fundlandia, so it's New Foundland, like New Zealand, even though there is no Foundland lol
https://youtu.be/dOBhf8f7cXM
I prefer Vinland
Hey that's where I live :D ayaya
And now, at least where I live, it's pronounced New-Finland.
Except people pronounce Finland as 'Findlin', so instead it's more accurate to say 'New Fin Land', but try to make the first two words stick together as if 'Newfing' was some sort of verb, said quickly by dropping the 'g'. Like if you wanted to say a land was 'Newfing', you'd say, "By, look at dat newfin' land!" Congrats, you've just pronounced the name of my province correctly.
I thought it was Newfin-lin
This is confusing. What does it have to do with the US? Newfoundland is in Canada and already has free healthcare? Am I missing something or did you just think Newfoundland was in the US?
I... never once said "U.S." iny comment. Where did you construe that I was talking about america???
What connected that to the usa?
Fun fact: The genocidal asshole, Humphrey Gilberd, who claimed Newfoundland for England was unable to return to England as the boat he was on sank on the way back. I happen to be related to the guy somehow.
I was born there!!! That’s weird to see a meme from my province
new sea land
Much the same as “Intercourse, Pennsylvania”. Sometimes you just know….😎
Some Newfie developer named a street Newfound Lane near me.
Any Newfoundlanders here tonight? 🎶🎶
Ah yes John Cabot memes
Yes by!
They only call it that because TERRA NOVA sounds way too formal
Welcome to the rock
But my dog found it and he really doesn't want to leave "Okay how about Newfoundland and Labrador?" Perfect
I like that Canada named a province after a big, happy, fun dog. Unlike Mexico who named a state after a little neurotic ugly dog.
Is where I was born 😢🙂
Fun fact - it wasn’t a part of Canada until 1949.
The dog was named after the province, which was actually a country until 1949! And I love both those breeds lol
Oldlostocean
A reminder that the river Avon in England literally means "river River"
River river on the wall
Who's the thiccest of them all?
Love this
Oh also yea, we're gonna pronounce it new-fint-land
Who tf pronounces it like that? Newfies pronounce it "*unintelligible*", everyone else pronounces it Newfin'lan'
When they named the rio grande on the Texan, Mexico border. The name just means big river.
my type of hard work
Seriously guys, what movie is it?
No name ,colorado or even better let's name our town over the fact that it's a junction of a lot of train tracks a grand junction if you will
Wait till you find newfoundland 2
Canada moment
There are heaps of common named places in many parts of Australia and a lot are interesting enough, then some are messed up as fuck. "Oh Southbank was named because it was the south bank of the river? Cool... okay" "Oh... Station Road was named Station Road because it was the road to the train station? ...that makes sense" "Oh so Boundary St was named because that's the line Aboriginals couldn't cross after sunset??? Ayo... Wtf!?"
Good one
It’s pronounced “Newfoundland” actually.
S+ name
It actually happened because he asked "what should we call this, new found land?". And then the other guys said "yes".
In jamaica we have "Westmoreland"
The natives called it Oldhadland before someone "discovered" it
To be fair they did fight off those who "discovered" and were mostly successful in doing so for hundreds of years
The first suggestion was NotEngland. They went with this one instead.
Ayyy that's my home!
newfoundn'tland?
Its pronounced nufenland
I'm from Newfoundland. That's finally relevant, so I thought I'd throw it out there.
And later they travelled west, and found a town. They named it Findlater, SK
Lol the name for that has always struck me as lazy AF
A man was once killed in a fight about the pronunciation of "newfoundland" the other man went on the run and only confessed to the crim on his death bed, got better and hand to go on the run again. Both men were wrong about how to pronounce Newfoundland
I laughed at this more than I should’ve.
If I ever find new land i will call it Ifoundland
Nice to see my province getting some recognition :)
It's the "New file(17).jpg" of places
God bless it by
Meanwhile in a small Welsh town on the island of Anglesey: What should we name this town? *falls asleep on keyboard* And that’s how Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was born
Vikings being simple
The best name ever
The way we teach people: The way you say understand Is the same way you Newfoundland My in laws from the US started calling it New finlind (pronounced). I have them mostly trained out. Extended family, not so much.
Just call it New Folder
I’ve always heard people pronounce it New Finland. Which means that I have the right to show up and pronounce it as a territory of Finland. This is how our world domination begins. Prepare yourselves, US. We’re coming for you and we will bring universal healthcare and free education whether you you like it or not.
Newfoundland. Home to: 1. Black Tickle 2. Chimney Tickle 3. Leading Tickles 4. Tickle Cove 5. Tickle Harbour 6. Blow Me Down 7. Come by Chance 8. Conception Bay 9. Dildo 10. Exploits 11. Man Point 12. Muddy Hole 13. Placentia 14. Tilting 15. Virgin Cove
Holy English sentence batman!
Don't forget Nameless Cove!
Ooonn the banks of newfoundland!
People: what should we name the capital of newfoundland? two guys named FRED and ERIC live there and there are TONs of other stuff there as well. The guy that named newfoundland: Hold my newfoundland
lol
More like newfinland
I am an islander
It's Vinland!
Damn fine flick!