ABSTRACT
Newfoundland narrators such as the Bennetts. Allan Oake's use of the once and alright to mark stages in the progression of the narrative is again evident here. Other linguistic points include the devoicing of /v/ in stuffed (shoved), the elision of schwa in th ’ house, the nautical turned in, the use of 'em in subject position, the present tense form you gets, the past tense send, the double negative nobody knowed nothing, and the syntactical form caught her hold (caught hold of her).
