trouble

trouble n Mourners at a wake would shake with the bereaved and murmur, "Sorry for your trouble, Mam". This was said to me several times only last year. *Hubert Hutton told me that his father, Sir Charles Hutton, often related the story of the well-known undertaker in St. John's who, w...

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Format: Manuscript
Language:English
Published: 1970
Subjects:
English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75421
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spelling ftmemorialunivdc:oai:collections.mun.ca:elrcdne/75421 2023-12-31T10:19:23+01:00 trouble 1970/12/xx image/jpeg 1 index card http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75421 eng eng T Avalon/P.Bay *also Hubert Hutton, Sr., St. John's. References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database 15390 T_15390_trouble n http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75421 Department of Folklore Original held in the Department of Folklore. Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore English language--Dialects--Newfoundland and Labrador Text Manuscript 1970 ftmemorialunivdc 2023-12-04T11:29:24Z trouble n Mourners at a wake would shake with the bereaved and murmur, "Sorry for your trouble, Mam". This was said to me several times only last year. *Hubert Hutton told me that his father, Sir Charles Hutton, often related the story of the well-known undertaker in St. John's who, when called in his line of business, would doff his stove-pipe hat and deliver his famous salutation: "Sorry-for-your-trouble.-What's-the-length-of-the-corpse?" (This is still used as a catch-phrase in the family.) It was said all in one breath. DNE-cit JH 11/70 JH 12/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I take, ~ trouble Manuscript Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Digital Archives Initiative (DAI)
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trouble
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description trouble n Mourners at a wake would shake with the bereaved and murmur, "Sorry for your trouble, Mam". This was said to me several times only last year. *Hubert Hutton told me that his father, Sir Charles Hutton, often related the story of the well-known undertaker in St. John's who, when called in his line of business, would doff his stove-pipe hat and deliver his famous salutation: "Sorry-for-your-trouble.-What's-the-length-of-the-corpse?" (This is still used as a catch-phrase in the family.) It was said all in one breath. DNE-cit JH 11/70 JH 12/70 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I take, ~ trouble
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title trouble
title_short trouble
title_full trouble
title_fullStr trouble
title_full_unstemmed trouble
title_sort trouble
publishDate 1970
url http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/75421
genre Newfoundland
genre_facet Newfoundland
op_source Department of Folklore
Original held in the Department of Folklore.
Memorial University of Newfoundland. Department of Folklore
op_relation T
Avalon/P.Bay
*also Hubert Hutton, Sr., St. John's.
References: Dictionary of Newfoundland English, http://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/index.php
Dictionary of Newfoundland English Word Form Database
15390
T_15390_trouble n
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