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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 8:45:10 GMT -5
17/20 I didn't realize how many of these were "Canadianisms". Just out of interest: What do you guys call eavestroughs? What do you guys call a double-double? What do you guys call a parkade? Also, some of the answers are questionable: A "keener" (or somebody who is "keen") can mean "brown noser" in some contexts, but the more general meaning is somebody who's unbearably eager to learn or to show off their knowledge in class. A keener is the person who always has their hand up. They misspelled "toque". "Brewskie" definitely isn't limited to Canada. I've seen it used in "The Simpsons", "The Truman Show", and several other shows set squarely in the US. I said all of the above for keener too Virgil. And I wondered about double double, what else would you say?
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Apr 30, 2015 8:47:49 GMT -5
"Warsh" is deep south redneck too.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 9:03:13 GMT -5
I was born and raised in the northeast, and "draw" is what you do with a pencil and paper - a "drawer" is where you keep your socks and underwear!!! I think it's more a Boston accent/regional thing - my grandmother, who was born and raised in Lynn with an accent you could cut with a knife, said it that way her whole life, to the point that my mother, who was not born/raised here and has no accent, even says it that way. "Warsh" is definitely a midwest thing to me... You mean the accent where nobody born in the state of Massachusetts knows how to pronounce the letter "R" if it came up and mugged them? Which is a very high likelihood in Lynn. When I first moved here everybody knew I wasn't from here because North Country people know how to pronounce the letter "R". That and my name would sound really stupid without it. My cousin calls it a draw as well. Silly me, I thought it was a bureau. www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2015/04/11 - This is New England speak. I love this comic.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 9:06:36 GMT -5
Just out of interest: What do you guys call eavestroughs? What do you guys call a double-double? What do you guys call a parkade? eavestroughs - gutters double-double - coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars parkade - parking lot Basically, the correct words. Just out of interest: What do you guys call eavestroughs? A nosy person What do you guys call a double-double? Not enough booze in my glass What do you guys call a parkade? A blockade I call any coffee with cream or milk in it disgusting . And Gretzky drinks it with 9 sugars and creams? Multiple
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 9:07:34 GMT -5
"Warsh" is deep south redneck too. That's what I think of it as too.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Apr 30, 2015 9:15:44 GMT -5
Just out of interest: What do you guys call eavestroughs? What do you guys call a double-double? What do you guys call a parkade? eavestroughs - gutters double-double - coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars parkade - parking lot Basically, the correct words. "Gutters" run along the sides of streets. A "parking lot" is a lot, not a building. The accurate term would be "parking building" or "parking arcade", and it's not hard to imagine why the latter might be shortened to "parkade". "Double-double" vs "coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars". Meh. Either one is fine. The first one saves five syllables.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 9:18:32 GMT -5
Double double is way more efficient.
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Post by swamp on Apr 30, 2015 9:27:26 GMT -5
eavestroughs - gutters double-double - coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars parkade - parking lot Basically, the correct words. "Gutters" run along the sides of streets. A "parking lot" is a lot, not a building. The accurate term would be "parking building" or "parking arcade", and it's not hard to imagine why the latter might be shortened to "parkade". "Double-double" vs "coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars". Meh. Either one is fine. The first one saves five syllables. Or a parking garage.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 9:34:56 GMT -5
I was born and raised in the northeast, and "draw" is what you do with a pencil and paper - a "drawer" is where you keep your socks and underwear!!! I think it's more a Boston accent/regional thing - my grandmother, who was born and raised in Lynn with an accent you could cut with a knife, said it that way her whole life, to the point that my mother, who was not born/raised here and has no accent, even says it that way. "Warsh" is definitely a midwest thing to me... My grandpa was from Mexico and had a very thick accent. He also had vitiligo and eventually want from dark skin and hair to looking albino. He said some guy asked him if he was Ukrainian. He looked at the guy like he had two heads and asked him if he didn't notice the accent or what. Spanish also doesn't translate exactly into English. He would say things like "you don't need to paint your lips" when he thought I was too young to wear lipstick.
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 30, 2015 9:34:57 GMT -5
"Gutters" run along the sides of streets. A "parking lot" is a lot, not a building. The accurate term would be "parking building" or "parking arcade", and it's not hard to imagine why the latter might be shortened to "parkade". "Double-double" vs "coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars". Meh. Either one is fine. The first one saves five syllables. Or a parking garage. I was going to say the same thing. Unless they are playing games in the parking garage why would anyone call it an arcade? And I speak fluent hockey so I scored a 15, but this is one of the ones I missed. I grew up in No Connecticut but my parents are both from Newbedford, MA so I grew up saying draws for drawers, or even calling a bureau a chest of draws. Although I have never heard anyone say warsh.
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Post by kittensaver on Apr 30, 2015 9:35:29 GMT -5
um, ehem, a double-double is only the very best burger in the world (aka In-N-Out) www.in-n-out.com/
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 30, 2015 9:35:55 GMT -5
or a "parking deck".
the word "arcade" makes me think of video games, so a "parking arcade" to me would be someplace I could park and play video games from inside my car.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 9:36:48 GMT -5
My grandma grew up in Texas and would call the couch a devan.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Apr 30, 2015 9:38:19 GMT -5
eavestroughs - gutters double-double - coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars parkade - parking lot Basically, the correct words. "Gutters" run along the sides of streets. A "parking lot" is a lot, not a building. The accurate term would be "parking building" or "parking arcade", and it's not hard to imagine why the latter might be shortened to "parkade". "Double-double" vs "coffee w/ 2 creams & 2 sugars". Meh. Either one is fine. The first one saves five syllables. along the sides of the roads, we call that the "drainage/runoff area". I forgot what "parkade" was ... "parking deck" then. I don't drink coffee so I wouldn't have to say anything.
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Post by violagirl on Apr 30, 2015 9:40:44 GMT -5
I also disagreed with their definition of keener. And I don't know about Upper Canada but we just say parking garage in the east. Parkade is not used here. My mother in law also says "warsh". She is from the southern part of the province which was strongly influenced by Loyalist immigration from the eastern seaboard.
In my genealogical research I have found the borders were incredibly porous back in the day. Even 15 years ago. Not anymore. Which is kind of sad.
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Post by cael on Apr 30, 2015 10:30:07 GMT -5
Chest of draws, yes! Thank you guys for validating the draw thing... my husband (who grew up in NJ) thinks it's nuts and always corrects me. gotta love the Boston accent... For the record my accent is there but definitely not as pronounced as many people. My SIL makes fun of me when I say 'sharp' or 'park'. I can turn it off and on though and sometimes I absorb accents, like after being in Jersey sometimes my 'water' will slip out as 'wooder'.
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Post by 973beachbum on Apr 30, 2015 10:31:47 GMT -5
or a "parking deck". the word "arcade" makes me think of video games, so a "parking arcade" to me would be someplace I could park and play video games from inside my car. Sometimes it feels like the gate that comes down before and after you pay, is playing whack a mole with my car.
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Post by Abby Normal on Apr 30, 2015 11:09:05 GMT -5
DH and I used to watch Corner Gas. They used to playing on one of the satellite stations and we'd catch an episode every now and then. If they made a reference I didn't get, I'd come in and ask my boss. The first one was asking what a Looney was. He told me, then asked why I was asking. I told him we had been watching Corner Gas. Next day, he brought in his whole set of DVD's. We loved that show.
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Post by chiver78 on Apr 30, 2015 11:14:56 GMT -5
Chest of draws, yes! Thank you guys for validating the draw thing... my husband (who grew up in NJ) thinks it's nuts and always corrects me. gotta love the Boston accent... For the record my accent is there but definitely not as pronounced as many people. My SIL makes fun of me when I say 'sharp' or 'park'. I can turn it off and on though and sometimes I absorb accents, like after being in Jersey sometimes my 'water' will slip out as 'wooder'. I've had friends be surprised to hear I'm from Boston, that I don't have a bad Boston accent....and then I go and say something that's just only said here - like tonic or wicked. I pick up accents too. with close friends scattered pretty wide, there's a lot to choose from. I say "wooder" after spending time with my friend from New Haven. I cannot ever rid myself of the "oo" from the Dallas area - like in Cooper, for example. and then there's the "eh?" from my Maritime family.
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Post by cael on Apr 30, 2015 11:18:41 GMT -5
Chest of draws, yes! Thank you guys for validating the draw thing... my husband (who grew up in NJ) thinks it's nuts and always corrects me. gotta love the Boston accent... For the record my accent is there but definitely not as pronounced as many people. My SIL makes fun of me when I say 'sharp' or 'park'. I can turn it off and on though and sometimes I absorb accents, like after being in Jersey sometimes my 'water' will slip out as 'wooder'. I've had friends be surprised to hear I'm from Boston, that I don't have a bad Boston accent....and then I go and say something that's just only said here - like tonic or wicked. I pick up accents too. with close friends scattered pretty wide, there's a lot to choose from. I say "wooder" after spending time with my friend from New Haven. I cannot ever rid myself of the "oo" from the Dallas area - like in Cooper, for example. and then there's the "eh?" from my Maritime family. It's funny, my husband who grew up in NJ can't even mimic the NJ-accented 'wooder' properly! He literally has zero accent, from either place. Apparently though, when he was down with his family (without me) for a trip in November, he said something that made his whole family draw back in amazement because they claim he said it wicked Boston. He has no idea what it was but I've never heard anything like that from him.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Apr 30, 2015 11:40:13 GMT -5
or a "parking deck". the word "arcade" makes me think of video games, so a "parking arcade" to me would be someplace I could park and play video games from inside my car. I'm don't why "arcade" came to be used for video game establishments specifically, but an arcade is just a building or causeway with an arched/vaulted ceiling. I'm not even sure "parkade" is a portmanteau for "parking arcade". "Parking garages" is common here too. Most of these quizzes have something about Canadians pronouncing "about" a-boot (or something like that). I'm glad to see this one didn't because I've never met anyone from any part of Canada who pronounces it that way. We do say "eh?" occasionally, but nowhere near the extent of the TV/movie parodies. Also, it may be the same way in the US, but young girls/women (age 11-24) here say "like" here so often, it's pitiable. The following wouldn't be the least bit of an exaggeration: "Did you like... see her with her like... thing on her shoulder... and we were all like... we were like... just get it fixed. Like there's a store like right over there. And she was like... looking at us, and we were like 'Yeah, we're being serious.'" I used to tease my sister about it in the late 1990's and it's only gotten worse since then. I think even the guys are doing it now.
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Post by The Captain on Apr 30, 2015 11:56:43 GMT -5
Like, what umm - like are you talking about Virgil Showlion? Actually we are now at a point with DD that she get's fined a quarter for every unnecessary like. DH and I have taken to counting them during our conversations. To be fair, at one point DH was just as bad with "umm".
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Apr 30, 2015 13:05:14 GMT -5
I got 16 out of 20. BTW I call it a Dresser and they are Dresser Drawers. LOL
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 13:11:07 GMT -5
Chest of draws, yes! Thank you guys for validating the draw thing... my husband (who grew up in NJ) thinks it's nuts and always corrects me. gotta love the Boston accent... For the record my accent is there but definitely not as pronounced as many people. My SIL makes fun of me when I say 'sharp' or 'park'. I can turn it off and on though and sometimes I absorb accents, like after being in Jersey sometimes my 'water' will slip out as 'wooder'. I've had friends be surprised to hear I'm from Boston, that I don't have a bad Boston accent....and then I go and say something that's just only said here - like tonic or wicked. I pick up accents too. with close friends scattered pretty wide, there's a lot to choose from. I say "wooder" after spending time with my friend from New Haven. I cannot ever rid myself of the "oo" from the Dallas area - like in Cooper, for example. and then there's the "eh?" from my Maritime family. We don't have accents in KC.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 13:15:19 GMT -5
Pk spent some time st a work function talking to some people from Canada and now he says eh all the time. He's been doing it for several months. Either that or I never noticed it before.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 13:16:24 GMT -5
And I must not be able to tag people from my phone because I didn't see the button. I wanted him to know I was calling him out.
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Post by PK Bucko on Apr 30, 2015 13:17:45 GMT -5
Pk spent some time st a work function talking to some people from Canada and now he says eh all the time. He's been doing it for several months. Either that or I never noticed it before. Ah, but I did miserably on the quiz eh! 10 out of 20.
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Post by andi9899 on Apr 30, 2015 13:21:07 GMT -5
Pk spent some time st a work function talking to some people from Canada and now he says eh all the time. He's been doing it for several months. Either that or I never noticed it before. Ah, but I did miserably on the quiz eh! 10 out of 20. Oh gawd! Now you've started again!
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Post by PK Bucko on Apr 30, 2015 13:28:40 GMT -5
Ah, but I did miserably on the quiz eh! 10 out of 20. Oh gawd! Now you've started again! Now that hockey season is over, for the Blues anyway, some of that should go away EH. LOL
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