Mothers Day in Corner Brook

Newfoundland Boy

05/21/24 • 6 min

I celebrate Mothers Day in person with my mother ▬

Sources ▬

○ Mike Ellis, Newfoundland Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Newfoundland Terms and Phrases, Gibbs Smith, 2019 ▬

○ “molasses,” Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd edition with supplement, 1990, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/#2921

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05/21/24 • 6 min

Newfoundland Boy - Mothers Day in Corner Brook

Transcript

Hi, I’m Wayne Jones. Welcome to Newfoundland Boy, part personal memoir but mostly about the Canadian province of Newfoundland. This is episode 7: “Mothers Day in Corner Brook.”

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