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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?
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>>Bret
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>>Was this to me or just CC'd? cos I never mentioned that I was going on a trip to Nova Scotia.
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>>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.
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>You said you had "been whale watching in the Bay of Fundie" (actually spelled "Fundy") and had "only coverd this tiny parallelogram in the bottom RH corner of your country" which sounded like Nova Scotia. I guess that's something you did in the past, not something you are doing now.
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Aye but you said, "Are you only visiting Nova Scotia or will you go anywhere else in North America on this trip?" which suggests you're referring to a current or future trip. Anyway, I shot through New Brunswick, stayed on PEI, came back via Fundy (thanks for the spelling correction), visiting that national park with the "apple cores" - lumps of sandstone land eaten away up to 30-odd feet by the tides, NB, into Maine, Vermont, NY State, back to Ontario (whence I'd started the trip).

BTW, a Newfie I once met in Cheers bar in Boston had an accent very similar to my native "Scouse".