How to speak Canadian

Re: How to speak Canadian

• tiffletons518 member

  January 2014

  The only one I knew was Mickey. I live about a half hour south of the Ambassador Bridge, and you didn't always need a passport to get across the border. Since the legal drinking age there is (or at least was?) 19, it was sort of a thing around here once you turned 19 to go to Windsor on the weekends and bar hop. Lol.

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• WasNotWas member

  January 2014

  I knew toque and pablum!

  

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• Nix55 member

  January 2014

  I haven't heard of a single one.

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• Mufflerlove member

  January 2014

  I'm Canadian and haven't heard hooped, parkade or Donair.. Oops lol

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• tttwalters member

  January 2014

  you guys have freezies though right? I lived off of them while I was pregnant.

   

   

  

   

   

   

  

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• tiffletons518 member

  January 2014

  majwv8 said:

  tiffletons518 said:

  The only one I knew was Mickey. I live about a half hour south of the Ambassador Bridge, and you didn't always need a passport to get across the border. Since the legal drinking age there is (or at least was?) 19, it was sort of a thing around here once you turned 19 to go to Windsor on the weekends and bar hop. Lol.

  I live 8 hours from Windsor and we drove there for a weekend when I was 19!
  
  

  Ha! A bartender at Big Dick's had a crush on my friend, so we'd always start there for free drinks.We told customs thats where we were going once, and they looked at us like total pervs. So, we started using The Liquor Box (the bar next door) instead after that. Lol

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• tiffletons518 member

  January 2014

  tttwalters said:

  you guys have freezies though right? I lived off of them while I was pregnant.

  Yah. They're freeze pops around here. I loved Italian Ice while I was pregnant.
  

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• No longer the best member

  January 2014

  My DH says hooped a lot. But yes I also never heard of Donair and parkade.

  
  

  But seriously Americans don't use the term Freezies?? What do you call them?? Do you not have them??? Because that is sad! 

  
  

  Also how do you know how big a bottle of booze is? Ha ha! 

   

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Western Diva member

  January 2014

  @majwv8 Yup, those are freezies!

   

  

  

   

   

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• MrsAery-to-be member

  January 2014

  I'm America and we always called them freezies.

  

  
  

  
  

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• chelsmcl member

  January 2014

  Mmm midnight Donairs!!

  
  

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• chelsmcl member

  January 2014

  I had no clue these terms were Canadian! What else do you call a parkade?

  
  

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• Cricket81 member

  January 2014

  As for liquor bottle sizes, the only thing I can think of is "handle." At least that's what we called the large bottles in college - the ones with handles...

  

  

  
  

  
  

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• chelsmcl member

  January 2014

  I say hooped lots!

  
  

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• BC&LM member

  January 2014

  majwv8 said:

  Not sure about the rest of America, but we call "freezies" , "freeze pops".
  
  This is what your talking about, right?
  
  

  We call them freeze pops, ice pops, or occasionally popsicles around here (Mid-Atlantic).
  

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• BC&LM member

  January 2014

  ChelsRy1 said:

  I had no clue these terms were Canadian! What else do you call a parkade?

  If it's what I think it is, based on Google, we just call them parking garages.

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• BC&LM member

  January 2014

  Nix55 said:

  I haven't heard of a single one.

  Same here. Around here, other than being a cartoon mouse, a Mickey is a drug slipped into someone's drink.
  

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• BC&LM member

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  tiffletons518 said:

  
  

  tttwalters said:

  
  

  you guys have freezies though right? I lived off of them while I was pregnant.

  
  

  Yah. They're freeze pops around here. I loved Italian Ice while I was pregnant.
  
  
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  Another interesting difference in dialect--we refer to Italian ice as water ice in my neck of the woods.
  

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• BC&LM member

  January 2014

  No longer the best said:

  My DH says hooped a lot. But yes I also never heard of Donair and parkade.

  
  

  But seriously Americans don't use the term Freezies?? What do you call them?? Do you not have them??? Because that is sad! 

  
  

  Also how do you know how big a bottle of booze is? Ha ha! 

  For some reason, they use milliliters, even though that's metric. So you would buy a 750 ml, for instance.

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• tiffletons518 member

  January 2014

  BC&LM said:

  tiffletons518 said:

  
  

  tttwalters said:

  
  

  you guys have freezies though right? I lived off of them while I was pregnant.

  
  

  Yah. They're freeze pops around here. I loved Italian Ice while I was pregnant.
  

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  Another interesting difference in dialect--we refer to Italian ice as water ice in my neck of the woods.
  
  
  Water ice? I would have never known what you were talking about. Lol.
  

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• daffy2k member

  January 2014

  I use all of these words! Except we don't call a 750 ml/26 oz bottle of booze a "twenty sixer". Around here it was always a Two Six. I don't usually here the "Two Four" term for beer either.
  
  

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• sparklemotion86 member

  January 2014

  I've never heard of Donair and hooped. The rest I have.

  
  

   @daffy2k we also call it a Two Six. 

  
  

  I just bought myself a mickey of spiced rum the other day. The really huge bottles of liquor are called a Texas mickey 'round these parts. 

  
  

  FYI the legal drinking age in Manitoba is 18. We cool like that. 
  

  
  

  P.S. I love eating freezies while colouring with pencil crayons sitting in a parkade. 

  
  

  Damn autocorrect hates my Canadian ass. I had to re-write so many Canadian terms.

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• Mufflerlove member

  January 2014

  tiffletons518 said:

  BC&LM said:

  tiffletons518 said:

  
  

  tttwalters said:

  
  

  you guys have freezies though right? I lived off of them while I was pregnant.

  
  

  Yah. They're freeze pops around here. I loved Italian Ice while I was pregnant.
  

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  Another interesting difference in dialect--we refer to Italian ice as water ice in my neck of the woods.
  

  Water ice? I would have never known what you were talking about. Lol.
  
  
  I don't know what Italian or water ice is

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• Western Diva member

  January 2014 edited January 2014

  cdweegs said:

  I use all of these but when I say hooped it means out of luck. Like if you missed the last bus you're hooped.... I don't know...☺️

  Me too!  I'm from Alberta.....you?
  

   

  

  

   

   

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• daffy2k member

  January 2014

  @westerndiva - I'm in Alberta! West central, between Jasper and Edmonton. Whereabouts are you?

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• Western Diva member

  January 2014

  @daffy2k said:

  @westerndiva - I'm in Alberta! West central, between Jasper and Edmonton. Whereabouts are you?

  I'm in NW Ontario now...but grew up in the Devon area and Fort McMurray, then university in Lethbridge. Yay for Alberta girls!

   

  

  

   

   

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• chelsmcl member

  January 2014

  @cdweegs I'm an Edmonton girl and I use hooped like that too.

  
  

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• Western Diva member

  January 2014

  @cdweegs said:

  @westerndiva Saskatchewan

  So you wear bunnyhugs! Hee hee...cracks me up when my BF calls them that.

   

  

  

   

   

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• chelsmcl member

  January 2014

  I lived in Lloydminster for a while so I say bunny hug too! It really confuses people!

  
  

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