Hey B'y, What's Your Favourite Cape Breton Word or Saying?

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Posted this 2016-10-28 12:50 PM ADT (updated 2016-11-09 1:39 PM AST)

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Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 12:52 PM ADT Reply 2 0 "Get outta dat water Cecil b'y" -Maynard Morrison and Bette MacDonald in the Cape Breton Summertime Review from the early 1990s.
Tera Camus Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:17 PM ADT Reply 4 0 "I'm so hungry, I could eat the legs off the lamb of God."
Rory Andrews Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:19 PM ADT Reply 1 0 There's always the ubiquitous "Who's your Fader?" I think we should probably just go back to Viking times, when I would say "I'm Rory, son of Rob, son of Kenneth, son of Beowulf." Seriously though, I've never lived in a place that can judge your character based on lineage. It's super weird. Joe Ward Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:23 PM ADT Reply 1 0 Just imagine how the son of Don, son of Donald, son of Fred will feel in 15 years from now. :P #Trump Ann MacKenzie Follow Me 2016-11-02 2:49 PM ADT Reply 0 0 The Donald's mother is from Lewis! http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/651569/Donald-Trump-Scottish-Mother-Scotland-Mary-MacLeod-Real-estate-developer-Isle-of-Lewis Brenda Jean Morrison Follow Me 2022-04-13 5:18 PM ADT Reply 0 0 Ugh! I try not to think about it! Just grateful I’m not a MacLeod from Lewis
Richard Lorway Follow Me 2016-10-28 2:17 PM ADT Reply 1 0 D'jeet jet? Bill Farr Follow Me 2016-11-01 8:15 AM ADT Reply 1 0 No, jou? G'way bye, it's twirly teet anyways.
Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 2:24 PM ADT Reply 1 0 How she goin' b'y?
Jennifer Witham Follow Me 2016-10-28 5:23 PM ADT Reply 2 0 "gonna puck ya in da mout!" I laid that one on some co-workers in Ottawa years ago and they sat there gaping like fish at me. Oh, and "fill yer boots" is another one that the Upper Canadian population didn't seem to grasp :-D
Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 9:22 PM ADT Reply 1 0 Lord tunderin' Jeezus b'y!
Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 9:24 PM ADT Reply 0 0 "Is this Dave or the other Dave?" ... callers on CJCB Talk Back Tera Camus Follow Me 2016-10-29 1:45 PM ADT Reply 1 0 lol ... god i miss that show... too bad you guys don't offer a call-in show via this site
Heather Sparling Follow Me 2016-10-29 7:24 AM ADT Reply 1 0 That guy sticks to that other guy "like a snot on a sleeve."
Heather Sparling Follow Me 2016-10-29 7:27 AM ADT Reply 4 0 BTW, it's worth noting that the new Dictionary of Cape Breton English has just been published by U of Toronto Press (it's authored by Bill Davey and Richard MacKinnon). There'll be a launch for it at the McConnell Library on Friday, Nov 4, 4-6 pm. Come and see if your favourite word is there, and discover (or remember) others! Christine Thomson Follow Me 2016-11-02 6:18 PM ADT Reply 1 0 Actually the launch has been rescheduled to Thursday Nov 10th 4-6 pm at McConnell Library in Sydney. Hope to see everyone there! Come find out what flying axe handles, strippers, stemmers and strupag mean to Cape Bretoners. CBC Mainstreet will broadcast from the launch and there will be music by Nipper MacLeod of the Men of the Deeps! There will be also be strupag! (p. 169)
Denise Monbourquette Follow Me 2016-10-29 7:59 AM ADT Reply 3 0 Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!
Barbara MacDonald Follow Me 2016-10-29 11:02 AM ADT Reply 2 0 "Like the fella says."
Richard Lorway Follow Me 2016-10-29 11:55 AM ADT Reply 0 0 Y'know yerself...
Danny Sparrow Follow Me 2016-10-29 3:32 PM ADT Reply 1 0 LORD TUNDERIN ____ {edited by admins}
Danny Sparrow Follow Me 2016-10-29 3:35 PM ADT Reply 1 0 JUMPIN JESUS!
Ian McNeil Follow Me 2016-10-29 4:39 PM ADT Reply 1 0 what's goin' on? (especially when it's uttered as one word - 'sko-in'on?)
Jennifer Witham Follow Me 2016-10-29 4:43 PM ADT Reply 0 0 The one I've never understood is the use of the word "how" in place of "why". Where'd that get its start? :-) oh yes and "where's it at?"
gloria cheetham Follow Me 2016-10-30 9:49 AM ADT Reply 1 0 who's your father, who's your mother
Jen Flynn Follow Me 2016-10-31 10:55 AM ADT Reply 2 0 "Gum-bootin-er" - Running fast with effort (like running in goulashes) As in: Me buddie was comin over the hill and he was just-a gumbootin 'er.
Barbara MacDonald Follow Me 2016-11-01 9:25 AM ADT Reply 0 0 "Hold my beer & watch this"
Bill Fiander Follow Me 2016-11-01 2:17 PM ADT Reply 1 0 "It's colder in the winter than it is in the country. " Workmate said its a Mabou saying.
Darrin McLean Follow Me 2016-11-02 8:07 AM ADT Reply 1 0 "C'mon b'y" or replacing the word "my" with "me" as in "Where's me pit-boots?"
Ann MacKenzie Follow Me 2016-11-02 2:47 PM ADT Reply 1 0 How's she goin'?
Ann MacKenzie Follow Me 2016-11-02 2:52 PM ADT Reply 0 0 Get to Judique!
Bruce Spencer Follow Me 2016-11-04 11:30 AM ADT Reply 2 0 Capers are fond of high-flautin' words like "heretofore" and "whereby". Just listen to this: Caper1: Here. Two-four. Caper2: Where, b'y?
Pete Mc Dougall Follow Me 2017-02-05 11:37 PM AST Reply 0 0 I 'am so hungry ...I could eat the a*** out of a skunk !!!
Kel donovan Follow Me 2017-02-07 10:29 AM AST Reply 0 0 Keep it up an there won't be enough of ya left to put in a match box!
Valerie McPhee Follow Me 2017-02-07 12:20 PM AST Reply 0 0 He's as loose as a pan of soot in the wind!!
Cathy MacDonald Follow Me 2017-02-08 6:43 AM AST Reply 1 0 "Notalodtalendit" Billy: Hey Johnny can I have a turn on your new bike? Johnny: No Billy, Ma said I am "Notalodtalendit" Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2017-02-08 1:29 PM AST Reply 0 0 I still use that one!

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Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 12:52 PM ADT

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"Get outta dat water Cecil b'y" -Maynard Morrison and Bette MacDonald in the Cape Breton Summertime Review from the early 1990s.

Tera Camus Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:17 PM ADT

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"I'm so hungry, I could eat the legs off the lamb of God."

Rory Andrews Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:19 PM ADT

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There's always the ubiquitous "Who's your Fader?" I think we should probably just go back to Viking times, when I would say "I'm Rory, son of Rob, son of Kenneth, son of Beowulf." Seriously though, I've never lived in a place that can judge your character based on lineage. It's super weird.

Joe Ward Follow Me 2016-10-28 1:23 PM ADT

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Just imagine how the son of Don, son of Donald, son of Fred will feel in 15 years from now. :P #Trump

Ann MacKenzie Follow Me 2016-11-02 2:49 PM ADT

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The Donald's mother is from Lewis! http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/651569/Donald-Trump-Scottish-Mother-Scotland-Mary-MacLeod-Real-estate-developer-Isle-of-Lewis

Brenda Jean Morrison Follow Me 2022-04-13 5:18 PM ADT

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Ugh! I try not to think about it! Just grateful I’m not a MacLeod from Lewis

Richard Lorway Follow Me 2016-10-28 2:17 PM ADT

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D'jeet jet?

Bill Farr Follow Me 2016-11-01 8:15 AM ADT

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No, jou? G'way bye, it's twirly teet anyways.

Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 2:24 PM ADT

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How she goin' b'y?

Jennifer Witham Follow Me 2016-10-28 5:23 PM ADT

Reply 2 0

"gonna puck ya in da mout!" I laid that one on some co-workers in Ottawa years ago and they sat there gaping like fish at me. Oh, and "fill yer boots" is another one that the Upper Canadian population didn't seem to grasp :-D

Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 9:22 PM ADT

Reply 1 0

Lord tunderin' Jeezus b'y!

Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2016-10-28 9:24 PM ADT

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"Is this Dave or the other Dave?" ... callers on CJCB Talk Back

Tera Camus Follow Me 2016-10-29 1:45 PM ADT

Reply 1 0

lol ... god i miss that show... too bad you guys don't offer a call-in show via this site

Heather Sparling Follow Me 2016-10-29 7:24 AM ADT

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That guy sticks to that other guy "like a snot on a sleeve."

Heather Sparling Follow Me 2016-10-29 7:27 AM ADT

Reply 4 0

BTW, it's worth noting that the new Dictionary of Cape Breton English has just been published by U of Toronto Press (it's authored by Bill Davey and Richard MacKinnon). There'll be a launch for it at the McConnell Library on Friday, Nov 4, 4-6 pm. Come and see if your favourite word is there, and discover (or remember) others!

Christine Thomson Follow Me 2016-11-02 6:18 PM ADT

Reply 1 0

Actually the launch has been rescheduled to Thursday Nov 10th 4-6 pm at McConnell Library in Sydney. Hope to see everyone there! Come find out what flying axe handles, strippers, stemmers and strupag mean to Cape Bretoners. CBC Mainstreet will broadcast from the launch and there will be music by Nipper MacLeod of the Men of the Deeps! There will be also be strupag! (p. 169)