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but which I am informed, is used by the French Canadians to denote a 
fork. On the west coast they have the word Jachkatar, a corruption of 
Jacque a terre, Jack ashore, a name given to a Frenchman who has 
deserted his vessel and is living an unsettled life ashore, and indeed to 
any French Canadian from the St. Lawrence visiting that part of the 
island. The word please is used as an Englishman would say : “I beg 
your pardon, what did you say? But this is simply the translation of 
the French plait-d. 
We would scarcely have expected to find their speech set off by 
importations from the classics. But some words seem to be of Latin 
origin. In the prices current in the newspapers one may see fish 
distinguished as tol squolls or tal squals and quoted at certain figures. 
This denotes fish bought and sold without assorting or culling, just as 
they come. Dr. Pilot suggests that the word is a corruption of the 
Latin ¢talis qualis, such as it is, and it is likely that he is correct. 
Another word which he regards as of classic origin is longer. This 
he supposes a contraction of the Latin Jongurius. Ido not think it 
necessary to go beyond the English language to account for the forma- 
tion of the word. At all events, it is used in Newfoundland to denote a 
pole, of length according to circumstances, stretched across an open 
space. Thus they have flake longers, the horizontal pieces in flakes, on 
which boughs are laid to form the bed on which fish are placed to dry ; 
Jence lonyers, small sized fence rails; and stage longers, of larger size, 
from five to seven inches in diameter, forming the floor or platform of 
the fishing stage. 
There is another word in common use, which seems to me to have a 
Latin origin, that is guiddaments, which means the things necessary in 
travelling. To me it seems simply a corruption of zmpedimenta, which 
meant exactly the same thing, though others prefer deducing it from the 
word accoutrements. 
It will be seen that several of the old English words in use in New- 
foundland are also found in New England. The question has been 
raised whether each derived them from their common English parentage, 
or whether the Newfoundlanders received them by intercourse with 
New England fishermen visiting their coast. Iam decidedly of opinion 
that most if not all the words of this stamp used in Newfoundland were 
an original importation from the mother country. The intercourse of 
New England fishermen was too limited and too transient to have so 
