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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 |
I've got more to add here but maybe it's more for us in Western Canada!
We normally have "supper" instead of "dinner"
Gravy is a normal thing to eat with fries, and at any restaurant when you order fries, they ask if you want gravy with it. I had one friend ask for gravy on her fries in New York and they looked at her like she had two heads.
To add to the couch.... my grandma and some older people call it a chesterfield.
Here in Saskatchewan, a hoodie is a "bunnyhug" lol.
Also just for Sask, chocolate milk used to be known as Vico. I believe that's from a company that was around when I was younger but it has not been around for years. I don't think anyone calls it that anymore!
A lot of us just say brand names instead of what something actually is... such as the Kleenex you mentioned, or Ski-doo or Sea-doo, no matter what brand it actually is!
Oh and there is no ice-skating or ice-hockey. It's just plain skating and hockey. Most of us don't know any kind that doesn't happen on ice lol!