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Wli Nuelewi aq & Pusu'l Puna'ne " = Merry Christmas & Happy New Year in Mi'kmaq.

Pusu'l Puna'ne is pronounced, roughly, Bu-ZU Bu-NA-neh (stress on the capitalised syllables) - the story I was told is that the Mi'kmaq were confused when the French settlers one day for no apparent reason started going around saying 'Bonne année' to one another, and the Mi'kmaq asked "Pusu'l puna'ne?" = "What's with this Bonne année thing?" The phrase then became their traditional greeting for New Years.

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