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Newfoundland English with Lexicographer Diarmuid Ó Muirithe
Created 08/02/2010
Clip from the Blas radio archive. In this short piece which was first broadcast in 1999, wellknown lexicographer, Diarmuid Ó Muirithe explains to presenter/producer Róisín Ní Chéileachair about the kind of English spoken in some areas of Newfoundland in Canada...the kind that has a strong Irish influence!
Listen here also to hear of the curious nicknames given to the groups of Irish who emigrated from Ireland to Newfoundland.
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