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Originally Posted by Belinda_Cooperstone1
hmm a lot of those things I never heard of!
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May be a generational thing and/or a regional thing?
I only heard
chesterfield when I lived in Ontario, so maybe it's an Ontario or Eastern Canada expression.
Pogey's perhaps an old-fashioned term but I still heard that term here and there. Welfare was more common.
Molson Muscle - yup.
Very common. Great term!
Hoser - yes, Bob & Doug anyone?
Coo roo coo coo coo coo coo coo! (Or are they not PC anymore?
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Mickey - haven't heard that in Australia at all. Being a teenager in Canada, we were all familiar with mickeys
The only one I didn't hear of was
two-four. It was always a
case of beer when I lived there. Here it's a slab.
Hydro - which was our electricity or electricity bills. Given that it likely all came from hydro-electric power. You say that anywhere else, people wouldn't know what you were talking about.
Anglophone, Francophone is unique to Canada too.
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