A Typology of Canadianisms

Post by kimos » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 3:18 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”

Post by whycome » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

dghughes wrote: post #199

zahlman wrote: post #128

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> Surprising one for me was "all dressed" as a term for, e.g., a pizza with all the toppings. What on Earth. Wikipedia tells me: > An all-dressed chip called The Whole Shabang is produced by American prison supplier Keefe Group. It became available to the general public in 2016.[4] Frito-Lay began selling all-dressed Ruffles potato chips in the United States that same year.[5] I had assumed the entire time that every…

> Renoviction That's very common word these days at least here in PEI. Kicking people out to "renovate". It basically means renovate as in sweep the floor and paint a small patch on the wall, done. All so they can kick out the tenant and up the rent 1,000%.

Post by c-hendricks » Fri, Jul 11, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

c-hendricks wrote: post #262

sad they don't have "barmp" here, it's a newfoundland-ism (maybe east coast) that means "honk" of a car horn. rick mercer: https://x.com/rickmercer/status/1491480449226579969 nova scotia: https://theshuffledemons1.bandcamp.com/track/barmp-your-horn newfoundland: https://barmp.com/

Post by throaway955 » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 1:05 AM UTC

School-Cotton wrote: post #259

throaway955 wrote: post #244

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Nope, coloured pencils are coloured wax encased in wood. Canadians emphasize that they are crayons in pencil shape; Americans emphasize that they are pencil-form but coloured.

Interesting, I never knew that. Never been much of an artist. So I guess the Canadian term is actually more accurate!

Post by mjklin » Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 1:32 PM UTC

regus wrote: post #81

I have a sure fire method for detecting Canadians out in the wild. Pay close attention to how they pronounce the word “resources”. If you hear the letter Z in there then they are probably Canadian.