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John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> Tue, 13 October 2015 00:06 UTC

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Peter Constable scripsit:

> I think the denoted variant is perfectly reasonable to add, but as
> mentioned, the syntax requires a longer subtag, even though "nfld"
> is a conventional abbreviation for Newfoundland. What about "nflnd"?

I think it would be easy to forget the correct order of letters:  nflnd?,
nfnld?, nfnlnd?.  Wikipedia says the dialect is also called Newfinese.
How about 'newfin'?  It's pronounceable.

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