evidence: It is why many Asian people cannot say the letter R and replace it with an L. Once I started to listen I wondered about my Father-in-law who came from Nfld at age ten and had no trace that I could hear of a Newfy accent, any more than my Mother-in-law had any trace of what should have been an Ulster Irish accent. I never met the Newfy grandparents, but I did know the Ulster grandmother and there were traces but only traces. Mother had individual words rather than accent. Her older sister who was in church and community life more had begun to adopt something a little posher - sort of English - but she lived in New Westminster which was founded by the Royal Engineers and the military were still around.