rock n: off the rock
rock n Phrases like CFA and 'Off the Rock' are identified [in the exhibition catalogue] as Newfoundland expressions. The latter a 'term people use to describe their physical and psychical landscape.' Have Newfoundlanders really felt themselves to be on a 'rock'? Perhaps...
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| Summary: | rock n Phrases like CFA and 'Off the Rock' are identified [in the exhibition catalogue] as Newfoundland expressions. The latter a 'term people use to describe their physical and psychical landscape.' Have Newfoundlanders really felt themselves to be on a 'rock'? Perhaps the answer is not an easy one to find. It seems that this ex- pression has come to us along with Newfie. .[a] nauseating quaintism never uttered by a self respecting inhabitant of this island before 1950. DNE Sup PRINTED ITEM [This is an involved cite, a commentary on a recent art gallery exhib- ition of landscapes painted by various, 'native' and 'non-native' painters] MAR. 7 1989 G. M. Story WK Used I and Sup Used Sup 3 Used Sup only the first two sentences of the quotation appear in the dictionary |
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