A Typology of Canadianisms

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 10:13 PM UTC

skeeter2020 wrote: post #286

talos_ wrote: post #167

Well, why not include the word "Canadian", which significantly predates the country, as the prime example? It's derived from Iroquois Nation words and used by French settlers to refer to Indigenous people. The word "Canada" was used by explorer Jacques Cartier to refer to the city now called "Québec". It broadly refered to the territory of a specific Indigenous tribe. (could be derogatory, but seemingly accurate / ma…

>> Their chant "go, habs, go" refers to the "habitants" The province of Quebec has very strong language laws intended to protect the French language. Heavy-handed? You be the judge. City buses in Montreal were recently "pressured" to stop displaying the chant (one of the most Quebecois things you can say to promote your pride) because it's English. Instead they were told to use the super-common-rolls-off-the-tongue-a…

Post by gerdesj » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:10 PM UTC

xeonmc wrote: post #83

gerdesj wrote: post #34

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Toilet, bog or lav in the UK are some options. The easy to remember terms and will work nearly anywhere without giving offence are: "loo" in a residential property or "gents/ladies" for a non-residential property.

and also the lavatory

Post by kunzhi » Thu, Jul 10, 2025, 11:36 PM UTC

PotatoPancakes wrote: post #312

kunzhi wrote: post #296

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> For anyone interested in Canadian history, always check-out the French version of a wikipedia page In reading about Canadian history this entire comment strikes me as very "East" biased? (Because I'm reading a strong implication that the French are the true holders of the history and the English just showed up later. Which may very well be true) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation

> I'm reading a strong implication that the French are the true holders of the history I interpreted this more as "don't forget to check out the French-language Wikipedia articles too, since they might have contents that are absent from the English-language Wikipedia articles." This would likely be the case for anything concerning Québécois or Acadien culture, or the early settlements by the French; but not likely fo…

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

talos_ wrote: post #167

Well, why not include the word "Canadian", which significantly predates the country, as the prime example? It's derived from Iroquois Nation words and used by French settlers to refer to Indigenous people. The word "Canada" was used by explorer Jacques Cartier to refer to the city now called "Québec". It broadly refered to the territory of a specific Indigenous tribe. (could be derogatory, but seemingly accurate / ma…

Post by werdnapk » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 2:14 AM UTC

dadadad100 wrote: post #269

werdnapk wrote: post #203

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Quebec has it's own dictionary.

And Quebec has it’s own English. I spent a few years working in Montreal and soon learned about “passing the vacuum” and “closing the light”. There are so many bilingual folks that concepts and word orders flow back and forth. I had an interesting discussion with a bilingual anglophone about how in English elsewhere it’s called a “pacifier” and not a “souce”