| Summary: | billy In Dr. Pitt's youth he went to Sydney to visit his uncle by marriage, and on arrival was surpri_z_ed to hear himself referred to as a "billygale". His uncle told him that many years before, a man named Billy Gale, hailing from some part of Bonavista Bay, went to Sydney and got himself a job, possibly in the Mines. Shortly afterwards a relative of Billy's went from Newfoundland to Sydney and Billy got him a job. Thereafter, relative after relative went up to Sydney and Billy got them jobs, until it became a catch phrase that all Newfoundlanders going to Sydney were "billygales". See cited quotation. DNE-cit JH 1/74 s Used I and Sup Used Sup Used I Source appears in DNE I as: P 212-74. Word form appears in DNE I as 'billy gale'.
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