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>People in the U.S. tend to pronounce Newfoundland as "NEWF'ndLand" or sometimes as "newFOUNDland", the latter maybe not because it's convenient but because they think it's correct. I went to Newfoundland in 1999 and found that they would pronounce it, in their funny-sounding accent, sort of like "NEWF'n'Landt". You might hear this accent in Cape Breton Island, possibly spoken by people who left Newfoundland looking for work.
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>I never found out whether people from Newfoundland are insulted to be called Newfies. I wouldn't be surprised, since other Canadians may say the sort of things about them that we might say about West Virginians, or the English may say about Scots, or people from Australia and New Zealand say about each other.
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>Are you only visiting Nova Scotia or will you go anywhere else in North America on this trip?

Bret

Was this to me or just CC'd? cos I never mentioned that I was going on a trip to Nova Scotia.

I wonder if Canadians mind being called Cannucks. Scots (over here ) are Jocks (not the sporting kind) but aren't insulted by it. Scots, incidentally, would say New-found-land, tending to pronopunce many English words literally, just as they pronounce, say, Bournemouth (Bornm'th) as Born-mouth.