tal qual

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1984
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/72881

tal qual av phr tal qual [PT], [i] adv. phr. Newfoundland [i]. Also talqual. [Shortened from L. [i] talis qualis [i] such as, of which sort or quality.] 'Just as they come'; used with reference to fish sold without sorting. Occas. [i] attrib [i] or as [i] sb. [i] (see also quot. 1963). 1732 in [i] Calendar State Papers, Amer & W. Indies [i] (1939) 282 And by carrying a mist cargoe which is all sold at markett for m_e_rchantable fish, when it's only (what in the stile of the fishermen is called Tal Qual) to the shoarmen. c1894 in [i] Dict. Newfoundland Eng. [i] (1982) 557/I Tal qual, sometimes called [i] all qualls [i], fish bought without culling is clearly the Latin [i] talis qualis [i], 'such as it is'. 1928 in [i] Ibid. [i] 557/I [He] said that tal qual fish was $8.20. 1930 W. F. COAKER [i] Hist. Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland [i] 30 Fish would not have advanced beyond $5.50 talqual this season if the _FPU_ did not exist. 1933 [i] Rep. Newfoundland R. Comm. [i] 105 During the War years, quantity rather than quality became the ruling consideration; the 'cull' was therefore dispensed with and fish were bought on what is known as the 'talqual' sys- tem, viz., an average price was fixed for the whole of a fisherman's catch without any exact regard to the vary- ing qualities of the fish comprising the catch. 1954 H. A. INNIS [i] Cod Fisheries [i] (ed. 2) 462 It may truthfully be said that there is no cull of fish to be standardized, all fish being bought tal qual. 1963 [i] Amer. Speech [i] XXXVIII. 300 [i] Talqual [i], adj. [Latin [i] talis qualis [i]], the good with the bad. 'It was a talqual kind of weather that season.' [i] Talqual [i], n. 'I accept talqual as my daily fate.' Marchantable $5.30 F.P.U. O.E.D. Supplement Uncorrected first proof PLEASE RETURN BY 11 JUN _OED_ attnt to Nfld;.so assume it does. Let's use in sq. brackets] 22b WK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK Yes WJK JUN 23 1984 Does 1732 concern itself with Nfld? Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I Partially used; 1732 Cite ...