I Finds Me Bird

05/28/24 • 7 min

Newfoundland English, a puzzling complaint for a Zimbabwean doctor to hear, and my own experience with health care in St. John’s ▬

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05/28/24 • 7 min

Newfoundland Boy - I Finds Me Bird

Transcript

Hi, I’m Wayne Jones. Welcome to Newfoundland Boy, part personal memoir but mostly about the Canadian province of Newfoundland. This is episode 8: “I Finds Me Bird.”

Before I get to the subject I want to talk about in this episode (my personal experience of health care in St. John’s since I moved here about seven months ago), I want to comment on the title of this episode.

“I Finds Me Bird.”

There are three aspects to it. First, Where did I first hear

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