Of Bookish ThingsA look at why many #Canadians sound #Irish, the Irish roots of #Newfoundland, the historical migration that shaped Canadian accents, and the wild ways older #IrishEnglish survived across the Atlantic while #accents in Ireland kept evolving. #NewfoundlandEnglish is famously similar to Irish English, and the resemblance is so strong it feels like hearing a long-lost cousin who left in the #1700s and never updated their operating system. #History #Language #CanadianHistory #Linguistics #Dialects
