[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by gemy

Parkways , freeways, we usually call them highways

Oh course excepting the Don Valley Parkway, which is truly a parking lot most days...

In Canada like the USA we have different idioms across the country

As a child moving to Toronto from Montreal, after church that first Sunday, we pulled into a five and dime store, the owner asked me if I wanted a "pop" at that time I had no idea what he meant; I looked to Mom and Dad .... and then they said he meant a soda.

I say a quarter to the hour (shades of our old british past) or a quarter past the hour.

With the advent of digital timepieces, that is going out of fashion.

We do not have a divan, or sofa. we usually use a couch

We have not great rooms' but rec rooms or family rooms.

Vinegar is not an unknown commodity in restaurants but *gasp* actually available at take out counters.

Kleenex and not a "tissue".

We go to the cottage or the country.

BBQ's and not cook outs - well except for certain sections of our maritime lands

And yes we do use "eh", but not nearly as often as shown on US programs, and never as hard an "eh". Usually softly at the end of the sentence, or sometimes abruptly and shortly put on.

We don't do grits.... I'm still not sure what grits are. We have homefries.

We call potatoe chips - potatoe chips not crisps

We spell things funny... lol

Wow I have more in common with Canada words then I thought! Lol. Oh but ours is the living room. Haha. And grits are just plain nasty. Lol.