Since I don't drink much, I don't use some of these terms, but I know most of them. A few of my most common ones are double double, click (or klick), hydro, back bacon, timbit, pop, and touque. I take exception to toboggan, or at least as pictured, above. Toboggans ↓ have flat bottoms without runners. We call the one pictured in the list, a sled.
I am totally unfamiliar with street meat (hot dogs), darts (cigarettes), out for a rip (drive). Instead of pencil crayons, I am more more likely to say coloured pencils, but pencil crayons are familiar too.
For the most part, the list is accurate, and I think most Canadians know most of the terms and would actively use many of them.
This is a fun list and I'm saving your chart! If I'm going to be a Canadian I'd better learn the lingo!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun, and I wouldn't have had a clue about most of these, except pop of course. Now I can imagine listening to a great Canadian accent making sentences with some of these.
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DeleteI didn't know many of them (about three!) and am pleased to note you pronounce' z' the correct way.
ReplyDeleteYes, but it gets harder and harder because the influence is so strong and prevalent.
DeleteWe have some great expressions. I know about 75% of them.
ReplyDeleteThank you, AC!
ReplyDeleteI only knew a handful, what the heck is back bacon?
ReplyDeleteIt’s what you call Canadian bacon. Yeah, no, we don’t call it Canadian bacon. 😀
DeleteMost are new to me. Lots to do with alcohol, eh?
ReplyDeleteSome of these I never heard of either.
ReplyDeleteI only knew a couple of them.
ReplyDeleteHuh, I always thought it was spelled toque. Or is that extra u a Canadian spelling? (the ou thing?))
ReplyDeleteI have the same areas of familiarity and not as you do. Some of them are quite funny out of context. Re Margaret's comment above, a toque is something else - an old woman's wrapped headdress. The woolie hats, for me, require two u's.
ReplyDeleteI agree the list is accurate but I'd add a few Western Canadian examples: dust (not respected as in, "That's dust."), braaaap, and stove (a verb meaning to get stuck or into some other 'pickle.')
ReplyDeleteI was born in Canada and have been here all my life and I didn't know all of these!!! LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd now I feel educated!
ReplyDeleteThis is quite interesting. I did know some of them. Have a nice evening.
ReplyDeleteI probably knew 75% of them and have used some of them in conversation. I also agree that was a sled and not a toboggan. However we use colored pencils and not coloured pencils.
ReplyDeleteInteresting topic and the blog itself.
ReplyDeleteI wish you a nice day and, of course, my friendly greetings from my Slovenia, the land of Ljubljana.
What a lovely list! Is there a test about them for gaining Canadian citizenship? I keep thinking the Democrats in the U.S. might need to know. I recall you, or Red, teaching us that the loonie dollar is because there's a loon bird on it. Is the toonie just a twist on the word, or does it have two birdies? Love the difference between sled and toboggan. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteNaw, it’s just worth two loonies.
DeleteI know some of these. And yes, that is definitely a sled.
ReplyDeleteIs the term ‘pop’ pretty ubiquitous throughout Canada, or is it regional? It’s definitely regional in the US - depending on where you live, you might call it pop, soda, or (confusingly) coke. So one might say, “Would you like a coke?” “Yes please” “What kind?” “Cherry Pepsi”. We call it soda here. Pop and Coke used to be the two most popular, now it’s Soda and Pop.
ReplyDeleteI knew about toboggans and the bush from my time in Alaska. I hadn’t heard most of the others.
AFAIK it is the ubiquitous term. When I was young, we called them soft drinks, at least in my family. I don’t think anyone would say coke to mean anything other than Coke.
DeleteIt’s mostly a southern thing, I think. I dated a guy whose parents were from Oklahoma, and they called it Coke. It was very weird to me.
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