Some that come to mind – Canadian or not – “chew the fat”, “don’t know me from Adam”, “Fizz-Bang” for canned pop, interesting for its reverse melody, The Beer Store itself surprised the heck out of me after many years absence, and that certainly was derived from local slang – power to the people.Īll these phrases start somewhere (sometimes, like good ideas, they might pop up simultaneously in a population pressed by the same daily stresses), one of my own concoctions was slender vittles for tall lanky women. My younger life, mostly from Hamilton and Toronto. Not, sure if I read everything above, all good. If you enjoyed these Canadian sayings and Canadian slang terms, save this to Pinterest for future vocabulary fun! But we do call ZZ Top Zee Zee Top, that would just be wrong to change their name.Ĭan you think of any other Canadian sayings that are unique to your region or the country? Tell us some words unique to your country, we want to hear them. American’s called it Zee 28 and that’s just weird.
It doesn’t have the same zing when singing the alphabet song, but we do stick with zed. I know our American friends rhyme the alphabet and sing x, y, zee, but we say Zed. The American pronunciation is more like a-bow-t. She explains the diphthong differences eloquently here. But if you really want to delve into the reasoning for the difference. Why people think we say aboot is beyond me. And I like the way we say about.Canadians should start embracing the way we say about. Americans say About like it is A-Baow-T with a more open ah sound. However we do say About different from Americans. If I hear one more person say “ Oh your Canadian, do you go oot and aboot?” I’m going to sock it to em in the nose. And that is why everyone wore leather in Alberta.
#Funny ways to say talk to you later cracked#
Well, my dad wore them out on one cattle drive (my dad was a rancher) and it was so cold that his boots cracked right open and shattered. My mom and dad love to tell the story of a pair of boots that my grandmother sent to them to keep warm in the winter. We’ve experienced winter in Alberta and trust me, it’s cold. It is needed because Alberta can be extremely cold in the winter. I learned today on the CBC that it is an Inuit word for “The snow that melts.” What a Chinook is, is a warm wind that comes over the mountain in the dead of winter and instantly melts the snow and raises the temperature. I had no idea what this meant until I was older.Ī Chinook is quite amazing actually. Being born in Alberta, Canada my parents often talked about Chinooks blowing in from the mountains and how nice it was. Double DoubleĪ chinook explained by the Weather Network They use bathrooms, and restrooms, I have seen water closet used around the world and The British love to say The Loo… But I never see washroom. I don’t think that I have ever heard the term washroom anywhere else except for Canada. I was surprised to see the word Toilet used so much. When I first started to travel the world. Get a copy of Bob and Doug Mackenzie’s Take Off Featuring Great Canadian Rocker Geddy Lee of Rush.The Edge from U2 often wears a tuque, and Jacques Cousteau always wore a tuque. Well, it is simple, a tuque is a knitted hat is used to keep the head warm. When I made statements like “ Its cold tonight, I should have packed my tuque ,” People looked at me like I was from another planet. That’s when I realized that Canadians are strange. Take off and tuques were perfectly normal.Īnd then I started traveling. “Tuque” (it can also be spelled toque) I watched Canadian icons Bob and Doug Mackenzie as a kid wearing their tuques telling each other to “Take Off Eh” and I never thought anything of it. I went my entire childhood and a large portion of my adult life not realizing that this was a word only used in Canada.
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