On the light side of life, I don't know a gentler way to tell Americans this, but . . .
Her name is Iona, but she hasn’t blogged for a long time, so probably none of you know her, but I’m mentioning her just in case she might be a former blog acquaintance of yours.
By the way, we do know what a gutter is, and some people do, indeed, have their minds in them, but eavestrough seems to be the favoured word by most Canadians.
Say it ain't so! It makes me wonder what else we might be wrong about.
ReplyDeleteYou're not wrong, but we are righter. 😁
DeleteNah man...quite a bit wrong in America at the moment!
DeleteVery interesting. Now along those lines, what is the plural of roof?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I want to say 'rooves' ... 😁
DeleteSo do your eavestroughs have downspouts like our gutters do?
ReplyDeleteWell, they don't point up. 😎
DeleteI'm familiar with trough as it is often used instead of water tank, but eavestrough is new to me. It sounds too polite for, say, get your mind out of the eavestrough.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you on that.
DeleteTry saying this like some UK speakers: no' a gu'er. Silent ts.
ReplyDeleteA new one for me, I like it!
ReplyDeleteMy grandparents used to call it eaves trough and so did I for such a long time. Easier to shorten to gutter. But we used to pronounce it as if they were separate words.
ReplyDeleteAnd my mule trough is full and heated! ;)
I've never heard that word before! It's a cool one.
ReplyDeleteI have heard the word trough. I just learned a new word. Thanks, dear friend 🧡
ReplyDeleteAnd I took have learned a new word.
ReplyDeleteWell, I learned something new today, and you gave me a smile. Thank you :)
ReplyDeleteIt seems the language is evolving all the time. I cant use that term to younger folks these days
ReplyDeleteIn my region, which is in many ways….. pseudo-Canadian….. we have used both eavestroughs AND gutters….. but eavestroughs is far more common for us to use. Gutters here, primarily are talked about in reference to bowling. ☺️
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That’s interesting. What about toques? Do you have ketchup chips?
DeleteToque is very rarely used…. but it pops up occasionally. Usually toboggan hat, or knit hat is most common.
DeleteWe have ketchup chips, but they do not seem to sell well….. and for me personally, I do not really like ketchup (or catsup….. which when I see it written that way I hear “cat soup” in my head). I might use about 1-2 inches of the smallest bottle of ketchup you typically see in a year…. at most. My wife LOVES ketchup, however, so we probably as a household consume ~ 6-8 BIG bottles of the stuff a year. Oddly, she is not a fan of ketchup chips.
New one for me. What else have you got to teach us?
ReplyDeleteWe don’t use gutter for the evestrough here either.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about this before.
ReplyDeleteThat is a lovely word, so much more evocative and high-minded than gutter.
ReplyDeleteIs that word only used in certain provinces - all the times we visited family in Nova Scotia we never heard it once
ReplyDeleteGood question. I don’t know, but it is a topic that doesn’t come up a lot in casual conversation.
DeleteOnly candles gutter in Canada. However, in Rome it would be a canalis. (m)
ReplyDeleteNope, gutters it is! And i do my best to keep my mind out of them, although it can be difficult!
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