It turns out that all the winners of our recent New Year's Resolution Contest are serious wordsmiths. Here's a little about each of them:
Grand Prize Winner:
Andreae Prozesky
Andreae Prozesky is the Food Nerd at the Scope. She writes a weekly column about food with many a meander aside to refresh the palate.
She is also working on a collection of poems Sparrows from Sparks.
Runners-Up (in alphabetical order):
Don McKay
Don McKay is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Strike/Slip which won the Griffen Poetry Prize in 2007.
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir is a journalist, novelist, playwright and poet living in Reykjavík.
Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter has written a weekly column for the Telegram forever. Her recent collection of fiction boYs won the Metcalf-Rooke Award.
READ WINNING ENTRIES
You can read all four of the winning entries here.
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The New Year's Resolution Contest was based on using 14 words from the Dictionary of Newfoundland English that had previously appeared as Word of the Week on the facebook group REDEFiNE iT. Both the facebook group and the contest were sponsored by rattlingbooks.com
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Saturday, February 2, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
A Big Thank-you to the Judges for our recent New Year's Resolution Contest
We'd like to thank the following people who so graciously and engagingly selected the winning entries in our recent New Year's Resolution Contest:
Anita Best
Born on Merasheen Island in Placentia Bay (since abandoned under the resettlement program), Best has worked as an educator, archivist, folklorist, broadcaster and singer. A particular interest in oral history - songs and stories passed down through generations - lead to her performing career. She has toured extensively as a storyteller and singer, made numerous television and radio appearances and added her voice to several Newfoundland recordings.
Anita Best is best known for two albums: The Colour of Amber , a collaboration with Pamela Morgan, was released in 1993. Crosshanded, a collection of twelve songs for solo voice, followed a few years later. In these recordings and in her performances, Best tends to forego the standard Newfoundland repertoire in favour of the lesser known songs and stories collected from around the province. (above biographical notes are from Memorial Unversity’s Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heritage Site)
Anita Best is also the voice of Mary Dalton’s poems on the Rattling Books recording of Merrybegot.
Tom Howell
Tom Howell is a radio broadcaster, multi-instrumentalist, sometimes back-up singer and ex-lexicographer who worked on the Canadian Oxford Dictionary for a few years. He is known as the Word Nerd from the recent national CBC Radio program And Sometimes Y hosted by Jane Farrow. Tom also works as a book editor and musician playing keyboards and strings in several Toronto bands. His preferred instruments are violin, piano, mandolin, and guitar.
According to one of his myspace pages Tom Howell is trying to kick his word-nerd image by being a cool musician but his Blog entries say things like "I dropped into the Tranzac room ('dropped into' in the colloquial sense that means much the same thing as 'walked in' or something like 'entered' or 'visited') on Friday to hear Ronley Teper's gig, and ..." His influences include Thelonius Monk and the Gaurdian Newspaper.
You can befriend Tom Howell as a Word Nerd or as a Musician on myspace.
Gerard Van Herk
Gerard Van Herk is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Language and Oral Text. Also a professor of linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Van Herk's area of research interest is linguistic diversity in contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Apparently contemporary Newfoundland is an ideal "language laboratory” and a recent worldwide study chose traditional Newfoundland speech as the most distinct variety of English on the planet.
Much to the delight of Rattling Books Gerard Van Herk also has an Indie Record Label in his past. Before becoming a linguistics academic Gerard Van Herk, “along with his partner in “sludge-a-billy,” Tony Dewald, were the hepcats behind Deja Voodoo” a Montreal band of the 1980s associated with Og, their own independent label.
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Contest Background
The Rattling Books New Year's Resolution Contest originated from the Rattling Books facebook group/game REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
REDEFiNE iT was inspired in part by Mary Dalton's collection of poems entitled Merrybegot. The unabridged audio edition is available as an audio CD or Digital Download from Rattling Books. It is performed by Anita Best with Patrick Boyle on trumpet and flugelhorn.
Anita Best
Born on Merasheen Island in Placentia Bay (since abandoned under the resettlement program), Best has worked as an educator, archivist, folklorist, broadcaster and singer. A particular interest in oral history - songs and stories passed down through generations - lead to her performing career. She has toured extensively as a storyteller and singer, made numerous television and radio appearances and added her voice to several Newfoundland recordings.
Anita Best is best known for two albums: The Colour of Amber , a collaboration with Pamela Morgan, was released in 1993. Crosshanded, a collection of twelve songs for solo voice, followed a few years later. In these recordings and in her performances, Best tends to forego the standard Newfoundland repertoire in favour of the lesser known songs and stories collected from around the province. (above biographical notes are from Memorial Unversity’s Newfoundland and Labrador’s Heritage Site)
Anita Best is also the voice of Mary Dalton’s poems on the Rattling Books recording of Merrybegot.
Tom Howell
Tom Howell is a radio broadcaster, multi-instrumentalist, sometimes back-up singer and ex-lexicographer who worked on the Canadian Oxford Dictionary for a few years. He is known as the Word Nerd from the recent national CBC Radio program And Sometimes Y hosted by Jane Farrow. Tom also works as a book editor and musician playing keyboards and strings in several Toronto bands. His preferred instruments are violin, piano, mandolin, and guitar.
According to one of his myspace pages Tom Howell is trying to kick his word-nerd image by being a cool musician but his Blog entries say things like "I dropped into the Tranzac room ('dropped into' in the colloquial sense that means much the same thing as 'walked in' or something like 'entered' or 'visited') on Friday to hear Ronley Teper's gig, and ..." His influences include Thelonius Monk and the Gaurdian Newspaper.
You can befriend Tom Howell as a Word Nerd or as a Musician on myspace.
Gerard Van Herk
Gerard Van Herk is the Canada Research Chair in Regional Language and Oral Text. Also a professor of linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Van Herk's area of research interest is linguistic diversity in contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador. Apparently contemporary Newfoundland is an ideal "language laboratory” and a recent worldwide study chose traditional Newfoundland speech as the most distinct variety of English on the planet.
Much to the delight of Rattling Books Gerard Van Herk also has an Indie Record Label in his past. Before becoming a linguistics academic Gerard Van Herk, “along with his partner in “sludge-a-billy,” Tony Dewald, were the hepcats behind Deja Voodoo” a Montreal band of the 1980s associated with Og, their own independent label.
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Contest Background
The Rattling Books New Year's Resolution Contest originated from the Rattling Books facebook group/game REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English.
REDEFiNE iT was inspired in part by Mary Dalton's collection of poems entitled Merrybegot. The unabridged audio edition is available as an audio CD or Digital Download from Rattling Books. It is performed by Anita Best with Patrick Boyle on trumpet and flugelhorn.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
And the Winners of the New Year's Resolution Contest Are: !!
NEW YEARS RESOLUTION CONTEST WINNERS
The Decisions have been made. Our Contest Judges have revealed our Contest Winners.
Grand Prize:
Andreae Prozesky
Runners-Up (in alphabetical order):
Don McKay
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
Kathleen Winter
The Winners were revealed on CBC Radio's Weekend Arts Magazine with a panel discussion between the judges Anita Best (the Queen of the unaccompanied Newfoundland ballad), Tom Howell (Word Nerd from And Sometimes Y) and Gerard Van Herk (Memorial University Linguist).
The New Year's Resolution Contest was sponsored by Rattling Books.
The Decisions have been made. Our Contest Judges have revealed our Contest Winners.
Grand Prize:
Andreae Prozesky
Runners-Up (in alphabetical order):
Don McKay
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir
Kathleen Winter
The Winners were revealed on CBC Radio's Weekend Arts Magazine with a panel discussion between the judges Anita Best (the Queen of the unaccompanied Newfoundland ballad), Tom Howell (Word Nerd from And Sometimes Y) and Gerard Van Herk (Memorial University Linguist).
The New Year's Resolution Contest was sponsored by Rattling Books.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
New Year's Resolution Contest Winners to be announced January 27 on CBC Radio
Winners of the New Year's Resolution Contest based on past Words of the Week from the facebook edition of REDEFiNE iT: Dictionary of Newfoundland English will be announced Sunday, January 27 on the Weekend Arts Magazine, CBC Radio.
Angela Antle, host of the CBC Radio program the Weekend Arts Magazine will speak with the three judges of REDEFiNE iT's recent New Year's Resolution Contest tomorrow morning around 8:40 AM Newfoundland time. They will announce the contest winners and chat about the English language as spoken in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Challenge issued to Contest participants was as follows:
In one sentence state a New Year's Resolution using all of the Words of the Week issued thus far by the facebook group REDEFiNE iT : Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Your statement must include your resolution but may also include an explanation of its motivation or any contingencies you anticipate in the application of your resolution.You may ply the words in the sense indicated by the Dictionary of Newfoundland English definitions of the words or one of the "redefinitions" of the words posted to this group. It's up to us to guess the meaning of your Resolution.
Here is the List of Words to include in your New Year's Resolution:
shive
waddock
bawn
lewardly
blue drop
bawk
gud
drung
boo
pishogue
angishore
yaffle
marl
droke
merrybegot
nuzzle tripe
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This contest is sponsored by Rattling Books.
Angela Antle, host of the CBC Radio program the Weekend Arts Magazine will speak with the three judges of REDEFiNE iT's recent New Year's Resolution Contest tomorrow morning around 8:40 AM Newfoundland time. They will announce the contest winners and chat about the English language as spoken in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The Challenge issued to Contest participants was as follows:
In one sentence state a New Year's Resolution using all of the Words of the Week issued thus far by the facebook group REDEFiNE iT : Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Your statement must include your resolution but may also include an explanation of its motivation or any contingencies you anticipate in the application of your resolution.You may ply the words in the sense indicated by the Dictionary of Newfoundland English definitions of the words or one of the "redefinitions" of the words posted to this group. It's up to us to guess the meaning of your Resolution.
Here is the List of Words to include in your New Year's Resolution:
shive
waddock
bawn
lewardly
blue drop
bawk
gud
drung
boo
pishogue
angishore
yaffle
marl
droke
merrybegot
nuzzle tripe
*************
This contest is sponsored by Rattling Books.
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