Announcing a New Blog Site from Rattling Books: REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English

Welcome to REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English!

This Blog is an offshoot from a group/game of the same name that Rattling Books started on facebook. As there are still many sensible people who are not "on facebook" we thought we'd create a Blog Sister for the facebook group. This way we get to play with more people and more people get to play with REDEFiNE iT.

On this date we are approaching the end of a week in which the "Word of the Week" on the facebook edition of REDEFiNE iT has been "elt". Each week we will post a "Word of the Week" such as "elt" and provide you with the definition as found in the online edition of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English. We invite you to take a recycling approach to these words. Do as many of the following with the Word of the Week as you fancy:

- READ iT
- RELiSH iT
- RELiVE iT
- REMEMBER iT
- REUSE iT
- REAPPLY iT
- RENEW iT
- REDEFiNE iT
- REPORT iT

We welcome all approaches: from those who would conserve to those who would remake. And we especially welcome your comments and stories about how you have known these words or would like to know them in the future.

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This Blog is sponsored by Rattling Books, a Canadian audio publisher based in Newfoundland and Labrador. It is inspired in part by the collection of poems by Mary Dalton entitled Merrybegot which in turn was inspired by Newfoundland speech and the Dictionary of Newfoundland English. The unabridged audio edition of Merrybegot is given voice by Anita Best with Patrick Boyle on trumpet and flugelhorn.