Which Newfoundland dialect, found on the southern Avalon Peninsula, preserves pronunciations and vocabulary from 17th-century southeastern Ireland?

• A Lunenburg English
• B Newfoundland Irish English ✓
• C Cape Breton English
• D Acadian French

The southern Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland retains a distinctive dialect heavily influenced by Irish English from Waterford, Wexford, and Kilkenny settlers of the 1700s.