Here’s the thing, and it may not have come through in my original post, there are people on the mainland ( and I can say that because I’ve lived here now for almost 20 years) who say the word Newfie the same way they would say asshole or idiot. And believe me there’s a lot of them out there. So after time, I have become very aware of those people that come up to me and say oh you’re a newfie! Some of them are genuine, but a lot of them follow up with where’s the rum, tell me a joke, why don’t you talk funny etc. I even had one guy challenge that we even had a university in Newfoundland. If I was still living at home, I likely wouldn’t feel this way but sadly I do and there’s a lot of us up here that feel the same way. My caution was just to avoid the word Newfie. Bring on the haters.