>>>>>>>>Is life fair? NO! Let it go. Enjoy your wife and your daughter.
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>>>>>>>>In the area of the country where my family is from (West Virginia), that has a very different meaning...
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>>>>>>>Not sure I really understood the meaning of that reply but if I did ROFLMAO
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>>>>>>People in the mid-Atlantic states say the same sort of cruel things about West Virginia that Canadians say about Newfoundland, that the English say about the Scots, and that Australians and New Zealanders say (I believe) about each other.
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>>>>>I never heard anything funny said about newfies <vbg>.
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>>>>I heard someone from Ontario say that people from the maritime provinces (not just newfies) were all inbred. The Southpark show had an episode that was rude to newfies. I imagine that the writers used something they heard from a Canadian.
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>>>>I wonder if newfies mind being called newfies? When I was in Newfoundland, I didn't ask them.
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>>>It lasted for a while over here but I can tell you that I have'nt heard that term in many years.
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>>Once met a Newfie fireman, with a load of US firemen, in Cheers, Boston, where they were on a convention. They all took the p*ss out of him and he accepted the newfie handle gracefully. I can't see what the problem would be. People from Birmingham, England call themselves "Brummies", Liverpool - Scousers, London - Cockneys, Newcastle - Geordies, etc., etc.
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>>I'd be more surprised if they called themselves "Newfoundlanders".
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>>Incidentally, his native accent was VERY close to mine and I made him an honorary Scouser.
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>Some Newfoundlanders have English accents, possibly from an earlier century, preserved in remote villages. Some may have Irish accents, though I didn't hear that. Many have their own accent. A few speak French, I believe.

Yes, my accent, from the port of Liverpool, derives from Irish and Lancashire. It's not hard to imagine how a smilar accent would evolve in that remote, sea-faring place.