MINORITY LANGUAGE IN THE NEWSPAPER : JOUAL

( "Jack Kerouac was raised speaking Joual until age 6")

Joual  is the name of a dialect (some call it 'slang',some call it 'sociolect'- alanguage spoken by a certain social class or group) of Canadian French in Quebec.

It's name is derived from how the Frech 'cheval' is pronounced. 

A nice English loanword in Joual : enfirouaper   ( = cheat, from: in fur wrap,sometimes the furtraders cheated by wrapping cardboard in their furbales)

MINOR LANGUAGE ON THE FRONTPAGE OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPER :  FRIES ( Frisian)


IT GIET OAN !   means : It's going to happen!   

 -In the Netherlands famous words of the Head-Icemaster of the district of Friesland who announced in january 1997 that  the ice was solid enough to allow the  traditional 200 km. ice-skating-marathon Elfstedentocht (Elevencities-tour) through Friesland to take place, for the first time in many years.




                                                                                                         (Newspaper SPITS, 01-02-2012)