bough n: boughwolfen

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1987
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/8782

bough n The sun was beginning to set over the Burnt Hills and harp rays of red light slanted through the bough walls of my boughwolfen. PRINTED ITEM DNE Sup [postdates DNE bough whiffen, 1980 cite] [On p. [iv] the author quotes DNE _bough house_, and other variants, and goes on: 'If, however, my memory serves me at all, we in that partic- ular place of our childhood on the west coast of Newfoundland, called it _boughwolfen_'--'I have also heard the same referred to as _bough roofit_'. Author born in Placentia Bay (Mer sheen) but moved as a child with family to Corner Brook. Most of DNE evidence is east coast. Dislocated memory?] [It's the _second_ element that we still have to crack!] G. M. Story OCT. 7 1987 WK Used I and Sup Not used 2 Not used DNE Sup has been written on card, but its contents are not used.