Newfoundland Boy
Newfoundland Boy is about the Canadian province of Newfoundland. There's a new episode every Saturday, available (with transcripts) wherever you get podcasts. Logo art: Untitled painting by Wayne Jones ››› Music: "slowmotion montage where we fall in love" by human gazpacho, via Free Music Archive under CC BY-NC Creative Commons license ››› © 2025 by Wayne Jones
Episodes
A commentary on foods both traditional and new in Newfoundland
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Sources
¦ Newfoundland Boy, hosted by Wayne Jones, episode 22, "Newfoundlanders and Bologna: A Love Story," September 3, 2024, https://newfoundlandboy.buzzsprout.com/2358060/episodes/15686708-newfoundlanders-and-bologna-a-love-story ¦
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The state of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and other books about and including Newfie words
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Sources
■ “About the OED,” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2025, https://www.oed.com/information/about-the-oed |
■ Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, Edinburgh University Press, 2018 |
■ Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 2nd edition with Supplement, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin and J.D.A...
SHOW NOTES
I unknowingly happen to rent an Airbnb place in the heart of Pentecostal Newfoundland.
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Sources
››› “Bible Belt,” Wikipedia, June 11, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt ››› |
››› Drew Brown, “Newfoundland Needs to Chill the Fuck Out,” Vice, May 16, 2018, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/salvation-army.php ››› |
››› Patrick Butler, “The Hidden Abortions of Newfoundland’s ‘Bible Belt,’” CBC News, Oct...
A friend and I discover the military past and the industrial past on Placentia Bay |
Sources
› “Argentia,” Wikipedia, updated September 3, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentia. |
› Boskalis, “Equipment Sheet: Triumph: Semi-Submersible Heavy Transport Vessel,” Boskalis.com, https://boskalis.com/media/3p4noap4/triumph.pdf (viewed June 24, 2025). |
› Dale Jarvis, Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador, Flanker Press, 2022. |
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I return after a seven-month hiatus to weekly podcast episodes every Saturday.
Subscribe wherever you get podcasts or list here: https://newfoundlandboy.buzzsprout.com/
Wayne says a brief goodbye in this final episode of the podcast ▬
Source
→ Wayne Jones’s website, WayneJones.ca ||
Wayne talks about the subjectivity of film and the common habit of not distinguishing the world of the of the movie from the real world
> Wayne's movie list:
https://www.waynejones.ca/movies/movies/
Wayne talks about the one-year anniversary of his move from Ottawa to St. John’s ▬
Wayne reads three of his works of short fiction ▬
Source
→ Wayne Jones, "Short Fiction," https://www.waynejones.ca/writing/short-fiction/ || ▬
Wayne Jones talks to St. John's artist Emilee Hickey about her painting ▬
LINKS
Wicked Winds Art Studio (Instagram), https://www.instagram.com/wickedwindsartstudio ▬
Wicked Winds Art Studio (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/people/Wicked-Winds-Art-Studio/61550806900534/?mibextid=LQQJ4d ▬
PAINTING
From the Heart, painting by Emilee Hickey, https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2Tjx7rQTZPLzrnd6 ▬
Seniors still hope for love after the experience of never having had it or of losing it ▬
Sources
→ Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited David Womersley. London: Penguin Random House, 2008. ||
→ Jones, Wayne. My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers. William & Park, 2023. || ▬
I'm not attached to any one place, but I am attached to my friends
SHOW NOTES ▬
I’m changing partly because I am trying to tell the truth all the time ▬
Source
→ Jordan B. Peterson. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Random House Canada, 2018. || ▬
An excerpt from my novel The Killing Type ▬
Source:
→ Wayne Jones, The Killing Type. 2015. William & Park, 2023, https://williamapark.com/index.php/the-killing-type/. ||
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Accent on the first or last syllable; never the middle; and no mumbling ▬
Sources:
→ The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., 2005, https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195418163.001.0001/acref-9780195418163. ||
→ Davy Holden [@davyholden]. “How to Pronounce ‘NEWFOUNDLAND’ for Dummys,” TikTok, March 8, 2023, https://www.tiktok.com/@davyholden/video/7208255890695212293?lang=en. ||
→ Introduction. Dictionary of Ne...
Newfoundland is actually Newfoundland and Labrador. Sort of. ▬
Sources:
→ Canada Gazette, Part II, December 6, 2001, https://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2001/2001-12-06-x1/pdf/g2-135x6.pdf.||
→ “List of Administrative Divisions by Country,” Wikipedia, August 25, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_administrative_divisions_by_country. ||
→ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, https://www.ne...
Newfies like their own kind of steak ▬
Sources:
→ Coles, Terri. “Why Newfoundland Is Obsessed with Bologna.” MyRecipes, February 13, 2018, https://www.myrecipes.com/extracrispy/why-newfoundland-is-obsessed-with-bologna. ||
→ Nolan, Dick. “Piece of Bologna.” The Best of Dick Nolan. 1975. YouTube, September 24, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k2bgRLF8lc. ||
→ Phillips, Kevin. The Bologna Cookbook. Flanker Press, 2014. ||
→ Smel...
There is not just “one” Newfoundland English. There are many variations in vocabulary and pronunciation and grammar across the province. But some things are very common. ▬
Sources:
→ The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador. Memorial University. 2012. https://dialectatlas.mun.ca/. ||
→ Dictionary of Newfoundland English. 2nd ed. with supp., edited by G. M. Story, W. J. Kirwin, and J. D. A Widdowson, 1990. https://www.heritage...
SHOW NOTES ▬
I take a day trip to a community with my last name, but a name that’s not the name of a saint: St. Jones Within ▬
Sources:
→ Blue Star Juniper. “St. Jones Within.” YouTube, Apr. 26, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkQ8bosW5Ik. ||
→ Chris Anderson. “St. Jones Within.” YouTube, Deb. 11, 2021, https://youtu.be/t0LGLHGw9bM?si=HseRQMxJgg35LCb9. ||
→ Juanita Mercer. “Rural Reality: Finding Serenity—and Change—in the Small...
▬ My guest is Josh Menchions, who’s a standup comedian and also runs the open mic called Last Minute Comedy at the Peter Easton Pub every Wednesday night. ▬
▬ Josh Menchions ▬
https://joshmenchions.ca |
https://campsite.bio/joshmenchions
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▬ STAND-UP NEWFOUNDLAND ▬
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