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Labrador, St. John’s and Newfoundland: Some Pronunciations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2016
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The well-known names of Labrador, St. John’s and Newfoundland have variant pronunciations among the older speakers of the oldest communities on the Avalon Peninsula in southeast Newfoundland. The following description is based on field interviews; made during the summer of 1960. It is important to note that possible trends and changes in pronunciation in the younger and middle generations have not been examined; the informants ranged in age from two in the 40s and 50s up to 94 years. Almost all were associated with the fishery since childhood.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Fall 1960 , pp. 115 - 116
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- Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1960
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For purposes of comparison here are phonetic renderings of the pronunciations given in some standard reference works Daniel Jones’s An English Pronouncing Dictionary. 
The Concise Oxford Dictionary: New′foundland or 
′Labrador; Kenyon-Knott’s A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English:
Webster’s Geographical Dictionary (Merriam-Webster): 
Webster’s New World Dictionary (World Publishing Company): 
The American College Dictionary:
Columbia Lippencott Gazetteer of the World:
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Middle-age and youthful speakers sometimes use forms like 
and 
, especially attributively.