| Summary: | merchant One of the most singular peculiarities, however, of the dialect of Newfoundlanders is the use of the word _room_ to denote the whole premises of a merchant, planter, or fisherman. On the principal harbors, the land on the shore was granted in small sect- ions, measuring so many yards in front, and running back two or three hundred yards, with a lane between. Each of these allotments was called a _room_, and according to the way in which it was employed, was known as a merchant's room, a planter's room, or a fisherman's room.One of these places, descending from father to son, will be called a family room. PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G. M. Story June 1959 Used I and Sup Used I 3 Used I merchant brig, ~ man, ~ party, ~ prince, ~ room [see ROOM], ~ scrip, -store [see STORE], ~ talk Source is cited as 1895 J A Folklore viii, 37 in the DNE I
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