| Whatever You Say |
| The talk of Islanders, 1975-2005 The pithy, profound, poignant, preposterous and profane things Islanders come out with. |
| David Weale |
Author, storyteller and folk historian David Weale sometimes refers to
himself as a "speech-comber". For more than thirty years he has been
gathering up the voices of Islanders as one means of documenting the
way of life that existed on Prince Edward Island before, and after, the
rapid modernization of the mid-Twentieth century.
With a fine ear for well-turned, vernacular phrases, pithy folk wisdom
and the wit and sardonic humour of the Island, Weale has assembled
here a collection of more than 1,300 quotes, all collected during the
period 1975-2005. Together they form a massive oral mosaic of Island
culture that will definitely make you laugh, perhaps make you sad,
certainly make you ponder, and sometimes make you shake your head
in disbelief.
himself as a "speech-comber". For more than thirty years he has been
gathering up the voices of Islanders as one means of documenting the
way of life that existed on Prince Edward Island before, and after, the
rapid modernization of the mid-Twentieth century.
With a fine ear for well-turned, vernacular phrases, pithy folk wisdom
and the wit and sardonic humour of the Island, Weale has assembled
here a collection of more than 1,300 quotes, all collected during the
period 1975-2005. Together they form a massive oral mosaic of Island
culture that will definitely make you laugh, perhaps make you sad,
certainly make you ponder, and sometimes make you shake your head
in disbelief.
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| Recipient of the 2006 Heritage Award presented by the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation |
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"I don't have a mother, my sister had me." "The Protestants were lovely people I suppose, but we never went near them." "Those two would know as much about politics as a dog would know who its father was." "She's at peace now and so are the rest of us." "I'm glad I lived this long because there are a lot of people I couldn't stand who are gone." |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Gale Force: Winds of Change Family Ties Mr. and Mrs. Mothers and Fathers Blackboard Blues Politically Incorrect They Were Neighbours Then The Two Tribes Lord Have Mercy Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers Getting Out the Vote Put-downs Life's Like This and Like That Sickbeds and Deathbeds Some Nice Day Who is an Islander The Almost Invisible Ones The Unmentionable Half in the Bag The Inexplicable |
Cranks and Camels If the Shoe Fits: Folk Wisdom Work Hard or Starve We Were so Poor . . . On the Sea On the Farm Old as a Boot Shut Up about Christmas Strait Talk Storyline Inventions and Contraptions Roads and Rails Magnificent Beast Secrets and Slights A Bite to Eat Town Talk Remembrance Under Surveillance The Pyramids Island Stew |
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR David Weale |
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