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A place for me to store my Newfoundland English, as I learn it. (Might take a while.)
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chained_bear Uh...no. He drips other things, though... the little scamp. Dec 10, 2007
reesetee I'd be willing to lay bets on whether chained_bear's 20-pound dog does that. ;-) Dec 10, 2007
bilby Slobber seems one step removed again, unless your dog drips dirty ice. Dec 10, 2007
reesetee See, that's exactly what I was wondering. I had no idea that ice could be less than meticulous about its physical appearance. Dec 10, 2007
chained_bear ...Maybe sea ice leaves its socks lying around?
I pasted some stuff into the page for slob ice. Dec 10, 2007
reesetee C_b, do you know if the Newfoundland "slob" has the same or similar derivation as the English word? Just curious how it came to describe sea ice. :-) Dec 10, 2007
chained_bear A shape/size of sea ice. "Newfoundlanders distinguish between 'local slob,' usually too small to bear a man's weight, even when he is 'coppying,' or jumping from pan to pan, and 'northern slob,' formed off Labrador. Northern slob still consists of rounded pans, but larger, thicker ones that you can safely cross by coppying, provided you are careful to jump from each pan as it begins to sink under your weight."
--Cassie Brown with Harold Horwood, Death on the Ice: The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914, Doubleday Canada, 1972. Dec 10, 2007