James McLeod: In the names of places throughout the province, you can hear the centuries of history, the English influences and the legacy of Irish settlement You can save this article by registering ...

The Dictionary of Newfoundland English was first published in 1982, and it still has the power to baffle the best of us. CBC Newfoundland and Labrador sent comedian Paul Warford to the streets. While ...

Bored with ordinary place names? Have a hankering to send a postcard from someplace like Virgin Tickle or Joe Batt`s Arm or Ha Ha Bay? Or maybe visit Blow Me Down Park? Don`t get in a hobble about it.

It has been said, that the province of Newfoundland and Labrador has the most dialects per capita of any region in the world. “The amount of variation is actually very famous among dialectologists,” ...

Government officials from Canada’s easternmost coast confirmed last week that local history buff and amateur archaeologist Edward Hynes unearthed the country’s oldest-known coin of English origin this ...

Michael Crummey, an award-winning author whose poetry and prose explore the region and its capital, St. John’s, shares book recommendations, local vocabulary and where to find a good pint. By Michael ...

A smartphone application that promises to make Newfoundland English clearer for confused visitors is available for 99 cents. Whaddaya App was developed by Celsius Games of St. John's. It translates ...