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Why is Canadian English unique?

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Re: Why is Canadian English unique?

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There are some errors in the article. May two four is a distinctly Eastern Canada slang. In western Canada, it is simply May long weekend. Two four to refer to 24 beer is also Eastern Canada. In western Canada, you call it a flat. Finally, as a Canadian who has lived outside of Canada for a long time, Canadians really do use eh a lot. It is just that it is a subconscious element of the language that we are not aware…

"24 beer" Is that usage (the plural "beer") a Canadian thing? I've heard it in Canada but never in the States.

As an Eastern / Atlantic Canadian, I have always herd it "24 of beer" never "24 beer"or more common people ignore the "beer" part, for example "I'm going to get a 24 for the weekend".

edit: added a usage example

Re: Why is Canadian English unique?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a Brit who moved to Canada and I find it _amazing_ that anyone here supports the queen. You moved to a new land where you were not serfs. Where you could live free and your children could escape a suffocating class structure. To a land where you elected your own leaders. Do you want oppression back?

Many Anglo-Canadians - and probably some Francos too - look at the monarchy as a "let's not re-write the whole Constitution" option, at least nowadays. Something that Australia's republican movement has discovered, to the best of my knowledge, to be quite burdening. They call it "pragmatical monarchism" or similar wording. That being said, I am similarly amazed - but for quite different reasons - by Brits moving to C…

The Canadian Constitution is a huge pandora box no one wants to open.
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