Originally Posted by gemy (Post 4235212)

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

Originally Posted by MandiesMom (Post 4234949)

Oh I (I mean "We") do that here all the time, too. Only it's just a sweet sounding way of getting away with insulting someone.

Like: Well, she tried to do that right. Bless her heart.

:D

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout (Post 4235319)

It's not a word but I know my first trip to upstate NY they took me to a car show and at the food stand they had huge bladder things hanging from chains one was red, the next yellow and the last clear with like a brownish clear liquid... I guess I was standing there staring at it with a confused look till somebody asked what was wrong... Well red and yellow that's easy mustard and ketchup but umm what is the world is the brown crap I asked... I swear the looked at me like I was an alien and said vinegar!!

Originally Posted by gemy (Post 4235212)

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

Originally Posted by gemy (Post 4235212)

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

Originally Posted by Wallee (Post 4236062)

Teeehee...I have one..when visiting a friend in Colorado I asked where the "washroom" was..he looked at me like I was nuts. You want to wash clothing out here on the mountain?lololol...Apparently I should have asked for the "restroom" or the "toilette"..lol

Originally Posted by brezofleur (Post 4235109)

In Savannah, they say "yes Miss" to older woman and "yes ma'am" to the younger girls, lol.

Here in the Bay Area, we refer to San Francisco as "The City". We use a lot of 70s terms ("groovy") and surfer terms ("rad", "gnarly", "dude") and of course of a lot of "Valley Girl" ("Like", "so", "whatever").

"Hella" is also really popular ("hella gnarly", "hella cold", "hella sick", etc).