Boatswain the final scene. "Typhoon" by Joseph Conrad has a nameless boatswain who tells Captain MacWhirr of a "lump" of men going overboard during the peak of the storm. Also, the character Bill Bobstay in Gilbert and Sullivan's musical comedy "H.M.S. Pinafore" is alternatively referred to as a "bos'un" and a "boatswain's mate." Another boatswain from literature is Smee from "Peter Pan". Lord Byron had a Newfoundland dog named Boatswain. Byron wrote the famous poem "Epitaph to a Dog" and had a monument made for him at Newstead Abbey. Quartermaster is the highest rank in the Sea Scouts, BSA, an older
Newfoundland English late 18th century when George Cartwright published a glossary of Newfoundland words. A dialect atlas that provides further inter-community segmentation of Newfoundland English can be found at https://dialectatlas.mun.ca/app/atlas. Newfoundland English is often called "Newfinese". The term "Newfie" is also sometimes used though it is sometimes considered pejorative when used by people from outside of Newfoundland. The [d] to is used to represent the voiced “th” sound /ð/, and a [t] to represent the voiceless one /θ/ eg. “that thing over there” becomes “dat ting over dere” This is derived from Hiberno-English Both H-dropping and H-insertion occur in many varieties of