Basic Info

Name:: REDEFiNE iT : Dictionary of Newfoundland English
Category:: Entertainment & Arts -
Description:: This is a a word pleasure or you can make it a game.
A bit like playing Dictionary with the Dictionary of Newfoundland English.

How to play
REDEFiNE iT
using the Dictionary of Newfoundland English:

1. READ iT:
Read the definition of a word provided from the online edition of the Dictionary of Newfoundland (a selection may be found in the topics section below)

2. REMEMBER, REFRESH and/or REDEFiNE iT

3. RENEW and REUSE iT

You might notice that the above instructions include allowances for not playing the REDEFiNE iT part - it's really all just an excuse to wallow in some wonderful words so feel free to just love the word of the week.

What inspired this group?

1. The Dictionary of Newfoundland English
http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/

2. The collection of poems entitled "Merrybegot" by Mary Dalton and producing the unabridged audio edition for Rattling Books with Anita Best (voice) and Patrick Boyle (trumpet and flugelhorn)
http://www.rattlingbooks.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=8

3. playing Dictionary using the Dictionary of Newfoundland English with Isabella St. John and Michel Savard

If you are a lover of words or a word lover or luster we invite you to join us. At the very least you might pick up a few tricks for your next scrabble game.

Sister Blog:

REDEFiNE iT has a Sister Blog where those not on facebook can also share in refreshing a word a week from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
http://www.redefineit.blogspot.com

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English can be purchased online directly from the publisher (University of Toronto Press).

Dictionary of Newfoundland English: Second Edition with supplement Second edition with supplement
Edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson
University of Toronto Press © 1998

847pp /1 map, 3 figures

http://www.utppublishing.com/pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=8469&step=4

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This is a a word pleasure or you can make it a game.
A bit like playing Dictionary with the Dictionary of Newfoundland English.

How to play
REDEFiNE iT
using the Dictionary of Newfoundland English:

1. READ iT:
Read the definition of a word provided from the online edition of the Dictionary of Newfoundland (a selection may be found in the topics section below)

2. REMEMBER, REFRESH and/or REDEFiNE iT

3. RENEW and REUSE iT

You might notice that the above instructions include allowances... (read more)
Privacy Type:: Open: All content is public.

Contact Info

Website:: http://www.rattlingbooks.com
Office:: This group is brought to you by Rattling Books
Location:: Tors Cove, NL

Recent News

News:: Word of the Week: July 5 - 11

twite

Definition according to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English:

twite v [phonetics unavailable]. OED twit: twite (16-17c); EDD v1 'to reproach, taunt' Do So. To tease, taunt.
T 156/7-65 Joe would be always twitin' me about the Union, cause Joe and Coaker wouldn't be no man's good friend. T 245/51-66 He's only just married. He was twiting his wife about the men she was going to have while he was gone.

Now, we invite you to RELiVE, REMEMBER and REFRESH iT and/or even REDEFiNE iT!

The main thing is to RELiSH iT.

We also post the word of the week on our sister Blog each week.
http://redefineit.blogspot.com

The word of the week is brought to you each week by Rattling Books, a "so small we're fine" Canadian audiobook publisher operating from its global headquarters atop a tor on the coast of Newfoundland.
http://rattlingbooks.com

Each Sunday morning Rattling Books joins Angela Antle on the CBC Radio's Weekend Arts Magazine to release and chat about the word of the week.

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Throughout 2008 Rattling Books has brought you words of the week from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English through this facebook group and a sister blog.
http://redefineit.blogspot.com

More recently the word of the week has also been announced each Sunday morning on the CBC Radio program Weekend Arts Magazine with host Angela Antle.

Along the way we took tangents and had a recipe contest.

Here is the complete list of words of the week from 2008.

ballicatter
beat
bedlamer
brewis
britches
calavance
carey chicks
cross-handed
dotard
duff, figgy duff
elt
empter
faffering
fairy squall
firk
gaffer
gawmoge
gilguy
glauvaun
gommel
hag
hare's ears
laddie-suckers
larrigan
livyer
maid
maiden vein
maggoty
mauzy
pea
pelt
penquin
quintal
racket
rattling
rawny
scrunchins
scurrifunge
sish
slob, slub
slut
tickle
tuckamore
twillick
vang
wag

We hope you'll continue to enjoy words of the week from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English with us in 2009.

Best wishes,
Rattling Books
http://rattlingbooks.com

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ANNOUNCING
The Winners

RECIPE REDUX
aka Not Much Meat on a Carey Chick
Recipe Contest

AND
our selection for an alternative Thanksgiving Dinner

MENU

Thanksgiving Eve
Rabbit Dinner ala Nellie Strowbridge's Basket Soup Recipe
http://redefineit.blogspot.com/2008/09/sample-recipe-contest-entry-from-nellie.html

Thanksgiving Day Dinner

Hors d'œuvre

Nellie Strowbridge's Basket Soup

Entrée

Bonnie Morgan’s Stuffed Cod
http://redefineit.blogspot.com/2008/10/bonnie-morgans-stuffed-cod.html
with
Nicky Hawkins' Bottle Arse Squid On a Bed of Cavalance Pummy Garnished With Saddiesuckers
http://redefineit.blogspot.com/2008/10/nicky-hawkins-bottle-arse-squid-on-bed.html
and
Leslie Davis' sautéed horse farts
http://redefineit.blogspot.com/2008/10/winning-entry-to-recipe-redux-from.html

Dessert

Suzuki Talent Education Program's (STEP's) Galloped Gob of Golly
http://redefineit.blogspot.com/2008/10/galloped-golly-gob-recipe-from-st-johns.html

The Grand prize winner of a Dictionary of Newfoundland English is Leslie Davis.

Each of the contributors to our menu win their choice of three Rattling Books each.

Thank-you to everyone who sent recipes in to Rattling Books and CBC Radio's Weekend Arts Magazine.

Recipes will are posted on the REDEFiNE iT Blog
http://redefineit.blogspot.com as well as on the Discussion Board here at the REDEFiNE iT facebook group.

Bon Appétit

Give thanks for each glutch and guttle!

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