Instead of the usual Word of the Week we issue a challenge!
December 31 - January 14
In one sentence state a New Year's Resolution using all of the Words of the Week issued thus far by the facebook group REDEFiNE iT : Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
Your statement must include your resolution but may also include an explanation of its motivation or any contingencies you anticipate in the application of your resolution.You may ply the words in the sense indicated by the Dictionary of Newfoundland English definitions of the words or one of the "redefinitions" of the words posted to this group. It's up to us to guess the meaning of your Resolution.
A Jury will be struck and two weeks from now a winner and two runners up will be announced.Criteria for judging the winning three entries will be articulated by the Jury on announcing their final decisions!
The winner will recieve one full set of Rattling Books audio titles (18 in total).The two runners-up will each recieve a copy of Merrybegot by Mary Dalton, the book that inspired this Facebook Group and a copy of The Big Why by Michael Winter in which the term "blue drop" appears so beautifully.
Here is the List of Words to include in your New Year's Resolution:
shive
waddock
bawn
lewardly
blue drop
bawk
gud
drung
boo
pishogue
angishore
yaffle
marl
droke
merrybegot
nuzzle tripe
Post your Resolution either here or on the REDEFiNE iT Facebook group page under the relevant Discussion Board Topic.
This contest is sponsored by Rattling Books.
May the Gud be with you in the Blue Drop!
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2 comments:
This is my entry in the New Year's Resolution Contest:
Although in my youth I was often regarded as a lewardly fellow, a nuzzle tripe, a angishore, and was sometimes taunted as a merry-begot, I have maintained a strong affection for my out-port home, and resolve this year (2008) to return there to immerse myself in ordinary out-port activities such as shiving longers, helping to mend nets spread out on the bawn, hunting bawks and guds in my father’s skiff, yaffling dried fish, marling down to the harbour to observe flatfish in the blue drop between pans of ice, kicking the waddock on a frozen meadow, strolling down the drungs to visit old friends, cutting crunnicks in the droke just inside of Long Pond, and sitting in my Uncle’s kitchen listening to old fishermen spinning pishogues and boo stories.
because I'm never sure whether or not I've facebooked, here's my resolution for the new year:
There are some who may bawk at my bawn as I've sworn
more lewardly ways in these days of the leap,
but I promise and resolve,
without yaffle, without marl,
you'll not see me gud in the drung or the droke,
I'll not play the boo with a pishogue for a shive,
nay, 'twil be into the blue drop for this angishore for sure,
and sweet nuzzle tripe will greet and keep me afloat,
while the rest of ye waddocks sing merrybegot no more.
I may post the Coles notes version on my blog later :)
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