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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 |
My great parents were born in Canada, both sides... my grandparents and my parents and my siblings all born here, but we all sound basically like you do!
I do have to say... anyone who knows Boston knows how we talk:
Cah (car)
Pahk (park)
stoah (store)
fingahs (fingers)
bah (bar)
Blinkah (blinker, car directional)
etc..
We have Rotaries not round abouts (I've heard that in other parts of the country)