PATTERSON ON NEWFOUNDLAND DIALECT. 



The word fodder is not used to denote cattle feed in general, but is 

 limited to oats cut green to be used for that purpose. This use of the 

 word I am informed is found in New England. So the words funnel 

 and funnelling are used in Newfoundland and also in some parts of 

 the United States for stove pipe. It is common in both to hear such 

 expressions as that " the funnels are wrong " or " he bought so many 

 feet of funnelling." This sense of the wor,d has gone out of use else- 

 where, except as regards a steamer's funnel. 



Hatchet is used for an axe. This is a little singular as the word was 

 not originally English, but is the French hachette, the diminutive of 

 hache, and really meaning a small axe or hatchet. 



Idle is used to mean wicked, expressing the full force of Watts' lines 

 that " Satan find some mischief still, for idle hands to do." 



A Newfoundlander cannot pass you a higher compliment than to say 

 you are a knowledgable man. The word, however, I understand is 

 common in Ireland, and I suppose was brought here by the Irish settlers. 



Lodge is used in an active transitive sense, as equivalent to place or 

 put, as " I lodged the book on the shelf," " She lodged the dish in the 

 closet." 



Lolly. This word is used by Newfoundlanders, as by the people on 

 the northern coast of America, and by Arctic explorers, to denote ice 

 broken up into small pieces. They have, however, another use of 

 the word, so far as I know, peculiar to themselves, that is, to express 

 a calm. In this respect it seems related to the word lull. Indeed, 

 Judge Bennett thinks that it should be written lully. 



Lot, the same as allot, to forecast some future event. Wright and 

 Halliwell give it as Westmoreland for imagine, and the Standard 

 Dictionary represents it as used in the United States as meaning to 

 count upon, to pleasantly anticipate. The word low, which I deem a 

 contraction of allow, is used in virtually the same sense. " I low the 

 wind will be to the eastward before morning." The word allow is used 

 in some parts of Nova Scotia as meaning intention or opinion. " I allow 

 to go to town to-morrow r ." The Standard Dictionary represents it as 

 colloquially used in this sense in the United States, particularly in the 

 Southern States. 



Main is used as an adverb, meaning very, exceedingly. A New- 

 foundlander will say, "lam main sorry," that is, exceedingly sorry. 



