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  9. Date:         Mon, 28 Dec 1992 01:25:26 -0800
  10. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  11. From:         Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY@CAMINS.CAMOSUN.BC.CA>
  12. Subject:      Re: An observation
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  16. > Then why did you call them newfies?:-)  Or were the lexicographers
  17. > Newfoundlanders?  If so, let the jokes begin!
  18.  
  19. No, although there is a very interesting dictionary of New Foundland
  20. English.
  21.  
  22. *Newfies* is friendly usage, so far as I know. Just as Vancouver/Victoria
  23. and area is often known as *Lotus Land*.
  24.  
  25. Petrus
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