Cape Breton Dictionary | CBC Comedy 

Am from Saudi Arabia and graduated from Cape Breton University (CBU) and I can tell that Capers people are so kind and beautiful and very open minded. Honestly, I misses everything in there and no word can describe how good people they are. God bless you all and I really had my best time ever in my whole life in Cape Breton and I wish to come back for visit in some day...

I'm from Dublin, we also do the 'yeah,yeah,yeah' inhalation, she's having a bloody 'conniption', 'didja', 'j'eat yet', 'roaring', & she scoffed that down. Funny to hear that over the years these weren't lost! Do Cape Breton's do this on the phone?: 'bye, bye, bye, bye'....can go on a bit ;-)

Interesting being Irish that you can understand a lot of these words and I can hear the Irish ancestry in the accent. We still use a lot of these words.

Every person in this video is either from Glace bay or new Waterford .

Please tell me I’m not the only one who recognized Tracy and Martina?

I am a caper and I can confirm all of these

I'm from the north west of Ireland and this is uncanny. The way the vowels sound and the phrases I understand. Even the breathing in. We say 'conniption fit' if someone was acting crazy. The poultice. The phrasing 'ya didn' bring yer lighter wit ya did yah? d'jeat yet? Roarin' Scoff, Sin..I speak like that! If I didn;t know it was Cape Breton I'd actually think it was an Irish person who spent time in Canada esp the guy with the red top.

Meat darts where have you been my whole life

I'm from the midlands (Nuneaton actually,) England, and it's crazy how a lot of Nova Scotia words either have the same meaning and/or the same pronunciation, like didya (oh, wen up tahn didya?) scoff, and haard. Large Scottish population (my real name is Harbison) and lots of culturally linguistic influences. Fascinating stuff.

I had to laugh. I was born and raised in Nova Scotia and I remember being teased about how I talked when we moved to BC but I couldn't hear any difference. After watching this I had to laugh because I do say 90% of what was said in this video. I still do the yeah yeah while sucking in air but didn't realize that was part of an accent. Too funny. You can take a girl out of NS but you can't take the NS out of the girl. Bluenoser forever❤

The “puck” in a sentence was bang on

My aunt (who lives in Halifax) always does the inhaling "yeah" and I never understood why-interesting to know that's a legitimate dialect thing!

My Nana's 98 from the Island. She is bilingual Gaelic/ English. She says 'Well bless er little heart." or when she is disappointed, "Bless their poor soul" Once she told me the only one that would marry me is from the corner. She thinks any Irish or Scottish child who can't dance the jig is truly damned. My grandfather was a well known RCMP officer. They took me everywhere many times!

My Dads from Baddeck, NS...he calls the blankets on the bed “the bed clothes” 😊

As a Scot I was fascinated by this. In Scots: -fleg is fright -pochol is to steal -simmit is a vest -breaks is trousers -thrang is stubborn Gaelic: -ceol is music -salach is dirty -clan is family -Doolich is being sorry

Some of those words are quite common and used over here in Ireland as well. Blond fella in the blue jumper, Greg, is simply 😍❤️..

I vist Cape Breton every summer. Every relative I have besides 4 cousins live there. All my family and relatives live in Canada, actually.

My gf is from Cape Breton. This video is very helpful. xD

My mother's family comes from the Canadian maritimes and I'm hearing a lot of her vernacular in this... the inhaled "ey'yeah" included. She was born and raised in Eastern Massachusetts, but some of my grandparents speak still came through.

I'm from the Annapolis Valley and I use almost all of these.

Absolutely hilarious! Thanks! Been a long time since I visited cape breton wonderful magical place close friend from cape breton loved listening to him speak! Miss that!!!

Love it! I'm from NB and I recognized a lot of the vocab :)

If you guys ever decided to visit Ireland, you'd fit right in with us! :)

Best kind of pizza

Straight from glacé bay and new waterferd 😂😂

It was interesting to watch this. My maternal grandmother was from Cape Breton (Sydney area) and she moved to Ontario with my grandfather (who was from Ontario) around 1944, and I don't ever remember hearing a Cape Breton accent coming from her, or any of the expressions heard in the video. Perhaps she had a native CBI dialect and lost it after living in Ontario for a major part of her adult life. Now, my ex-mother-in-law, who was from Sydney Mines, definitely had a bit of a Caper accent going on.

Haha that's a good one, Roarºin xD

All Navy Terms. Understood everything!!

Lived on Cape Breton for a year, working in Donkin, definitely miss it, beautiful scenery and the locals treated me like I’d been there my whole life, I plan on going back to see everyone, wonderful place!!!

I hope to be in Cape breton in 2020 and I look forward to having a wholesome experience.

Lots of those are used in Pictou county too!

Love it, thanks for sharin, needed a good laugh :)

I needed this. I’m creating a character from Cape Breton for Fanfiction purposes.

I'm born and bred on the west coast and we say a lot of these; you surprised me.

S'gowin-ahnn

"Take note, rest of Canada"

They sound irish I wanna visit there now lol

Same im cape breton we say bye alot

Why is 'combination pizza' so hard? Its so easy youd be laughin! We're goin on a mission to get some combo pizza, by's 😂

What about "caw me", as in: "Caw me as soon as you get home!"? And b'y? (As in: the song "Tanks Ma, B'y!"...it's on RU-vid.)

That’s hilarious.

New Brunswick says a lot of this stuff too lol

conniption fit is normal english though. i heard that from my parents in vancouver in the 90s

ya missed a whole bunch bi, say "whataya sayin" or "rushin out" to a mainlander lol pure confusion

I have been off the Island a long time, took me way too long to remember Devco.

Many of these are "words / expressions" are widely used in Atlantic Canada

I am in Dartmouth now and still waiting for my chance to say, " jeet yet?"

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 @1:59 oh my fuck that's allllllll North Sydney right there lmao

I'm originally from Sydney river nova scotia but I'm living in Edmonton Alberta canada now for 16 years now caper I will always be

Who knew Cape Breton had a name for the best combination of North American pizza ingredients, and it's called... Combination.

Tracy and Martina! 💜💜💜

I got most of em.

bro no lie, we got the best food

This is like 50% things I never heard of and 50% things I didn't know was unique to Cape Breton.

CBC waiting till everyone forgets PEI Encyclopedia, then throws this out there...

Missed a prominent one: french fries are always called chips in Cape Breton.

What about a Krimco? Aka Chocolate milk when I grew in CB! Or "dear" I was going to buy the raisin bread, but it was too dear (expensive) so I left it on the shelf.

A lot of these are pretty Canada wide and maybe some in the US as well. I grew up in rural BC and conniption fit was definitely used a lot. My dad would have a conniption fit watching the Canucks lose another shot at the cup....year after year. Have a bird was get angry, so a bit different there, didja...everyone says that, no? We didn't have meat darts but we did have meat bingo and meat raffles, usually for charity. Every logger sports day there'd be a meat raffle. I think we won about 40lbs of ground beef once. A puck is a puck. That's what it's called. What else would it be? We didn't say scoff for meal, but you could scoff down your meal, any homemade or improvised alcohol was a shit-mix. BC has got some good ones like faller - that's just a logger who fells the trees, as different from a chokerman or logdriver. Saltchuck for the ocean, muck a muck which my mom used to use all the time to describe older, bossy, usually sexist men that irritated her. "Now that he's the superintendent he thinks he's the big muckamuck around town and we should all cowtow to him eh." She used skookum a lot too, as in "oh that's a fair skookum deal on bread" or "oh look at his little skookum cheeks". Basically anything generous big or good with the connotation of abundance was skookum.

The only two things I could add is a bun of bread and a good ol game of tarbish.

Excellent! In North east Scotland, where I’m from and is the home of the Strathspey. (My great x 5 grandfather was William Marshall) , we go ‘aye aye aye aye aye’ like sucking air out of a balloon or until the chiel’s lungs go dry. A chiel is a farmer or a country person. The spik o Cape Breton is braw. Mare like Scots and Irish then onythin!

Listen beh! Ed dare now!

Back in the 70's up in No.2 there were a few sayings that were used by a very funny guy hangin around at night up on 3rd, 4th and 5th streets,a natural comedian this guy was,I thought he was hilarious,he had side bustin humour,non stop.For instance, if ya said something outrageously stupid he might say to ya, "I think ya better shake yer beer box there by'", meaning that ya might have a couple of empties in there,he had one liners like "ja hear about the guy who went up to Halifax....yeah,he bounced all the way up on a rubber onion! Rimshot..Then right quick he'd ask ya "what's orange lying on the side of the road?..a wounded cheezie".Another rimshot.. And Oh yeah,der might be a lingering scent of cannabis indee air too. This guy was really funny,hurtin funny.Oh Danny Boy,the pipes,the pipes are calling...

combination pizza sounds good...

They sound so Irish

We have a very similar thing to the “did’ja” in Ireland we say did ya instead “ya went to work today did ya?l

What about three sheets to the wind bi!!!

What about “bed clothes” hahaha

Sqwuzed is killing me. Never hear that one that I remember. It’s perfect though

combination pizza is called toute garnie in Québec

Thats fuckin right

My mother's side is from Sydney Mines, Cape Breton (I've been told), they're all Scots. Justine is a total Smokeshow!!!

@ 1:58 holy shit she looks familiar!

They're like discord newfoundland accents.

Sydney mines is the best part

Well, an' now A'feel confident enuff ta visit.

WHOS UR FADERS FADER!

Yizz payin fer that? Er izz EEE EYE pay'n fer that?

Girl at 1:58 sounds just like Bubbles.

What about “ walk on , bye “?

Utube "Rubberbandits"and The Bull Mick.. they're Irish, its similar ta CapeBreton humour, like Rusty Cutlery or Embraced in Barbados

How long is this video 😆

Ron James should have done this

That language being twitchs and side-eyes

I'm originally from Halifax, but now live in Western Newfoundland. Most of the words I recognized are also used in my home town, including "pogey". In addition, some of the words are also used in Newfoundland English, including "scoff" meaning a big meal.

Justine is right some fit

Its like irish slang and the accents are almost identical to irish accents

How come in the news media like the ( CBC) in Nova Scotia you never hear the news anchors talking like this in Halifax? Maybe there's some Cape Bretoners among them. I asked my sister who lives just outside of Corner Brook NL once before about the CBC News in St John's NL and why they don't talk like the cast on Allan Hawco's Republic Of Doyle crime tv show? That's what made the Maritime East Coast accents unique, it's different from the rest of Canada.

Hi, it's your girl Tracy hun!

"Roar-lin" "scoff" "Did ya" "Biff" "Puck" very common words in my town in Scotland. Actually, used in most of the UK. This just sound like basic English, I don't understand why they think it's a language 🤷 "combination pizza" found here in Australia where I Live currently.

Did ja is pretty much universal amongst folks in the US. So is J’eat yet?

Except hold your bird

Are ice clampers just here.

Honestly I was hoping to hear some scottish gaelic, which used to be the main language of cape breton.

Folks, you sound like Bubbles.

🍀

Man I dont think I’ve ever met someone from PEI. Seems like a strange place. And these must be the Canadian accents everyone makes fun of!

Sydney mines is pre cool.

Love it im from a small town sydney mines in cape breton ns. Came to toronto in 2010. Friends say your an east coaster. Cause of my axcent . i love it. Now up here women calls underware panties back home we say bloomers lmao

how she goin bye from a cape bretoner ehh

So they're like the North Caroliners of Canada huh.