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Time for another linguistic mystery.

Where would you be if you decide? Time for another linguistic mystery.

Where would you be if you decided to go twacking around duckish?

And then you came home and wrote about it all in a scribbler.

Any idea?

Well, if you go twacking around duckish, you're likely in Newfoundland.

The type of English spoken there may be the most distinctive collection of dialects in Canada.

Some of it sounds a lot like Irish accent at English. Other

dialects in Newfoundland have echoes of the speech of immigrants from the West country of England.

Visit this island and you'll be greeted by some colorful vocabulary.

There the verb to Twack, that's T-W-A-C-K, means to go shopping and ask about the prices but then not buy anything. I guess that's sort of the

newfy version of window shopping. The word duckish means dusk or twilight. In a scribbler,

that's a notebook. If you want to hear some terrific

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