¹ M. B. DesBrisay, History of the County of Lunenburg 41; (Toronto, 1895). The historical matter of the first paragraph is based partly on this history, partly on A. B. Faust, The German element in the United States 1 passim, and esp. 256–8.

² The phonetic transcriptions are in the IPA symbols with a few self-explanatory modifications. In transcriptions of words of the dialect I write [ou̯], [au̯], [∧i̯], [ai̯] advisedly. The second elements of these diphthongs are [u] and [i], not [u] and [i]. For the hypothetical standard dialect [au̯] and [ai̯] represent points in the pattern rather than actual pronunciations. In setting forth the treatment of r the resultant long vowels are pure, as I have written them, without diphthongal glides. Accents are not written; they are in no way different from those of standard English.

³ For make in the sense ‘enjoy, eat’, as in Did you make your supper? see NED s.v. make v.¹ 60. Make fish, in the sense ‘cure fish’ by drying them in the sun, is said by NED s.v. make v.¹ 39, to be obsolete, but is found in this dialect and probably in the dialects of other fishing communities, especially in Newfoundland. Another technical term of the fishing industry is fish-flake, a platform on which fish are dried and cured; see NED s.v. flake. On yaffle, to pile up fish at one stage of the drying process, e.g. you can yaffle fish f or me if you want work, I have been unable to find any light.