Whitney McCullough never knew she would find a connection with people who lived across the Atlantic Ocean. But that changed when she learned about the linguistic similarities between her home of Banbridge, Northern Ireland, and Newfoundland.
Whitney McCullough says she has always felt like people outside her home of Banbridge, Northern Ireland, need subtitles to decipher her accent and slang. So it has been strange and delightful to discover through her TikTok videos that in Newfoundland and Labrador, people understand her just fine.
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According to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, a pond is a “natural body of still water of any size.” So that explains how a landlocked freshwater fjord that’s 10 miles long, 540 feet deep and surrounded by towering cliffs came to be called Western Brook Pond.
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