Whitney McCullough says she has always felt like people outside her home of Banbridge, Northern Ireland, need subtitles to decipher her accent and slang.
TikToker Whitney McCullough has recently discovered that Newfoundlanders use many of the same slang terms she uses in Northern Ireland. McCullough is seen in an undated handout photo. . So it has been strange and delightful to discover through her TikTok videos that in Newfoundland and Labrador, people understand her just fine.
McCullough has 173,000 followers on TikTok, where she posts videos about life in Northern Ireland and the region's slang words. Her popularity on social media is what got her an invitation to the opening of a new Mary Brown's Chicken restaurant last month in the nearby town of Lisburn. "I could see that people were talking to me like we speak here," McCullough said. "I go to London quite often, and they were using words that I use in London and nobody understands me."
For example, "b'y" in Newfoundland and other parts of Atlantic Canada is the same as "bai" in Northern Ireland. They're spelled differently, but they're both pronounced the same and used to casually refer to a person, typically a male. And a "feed" or a "scoff" is a big meal, which is exactly what McCullough says she enjoyed at the restaurant opening last month. She even met Gregory Roberts, the chief executive of Mary Brown's, who is from Newfoundland.Gerard Van Herk, a retired linguistics professor from Memorial University in St. John's, N.L., said the similarities McCullough is documenting are intriguing.
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