Canadianisms (live, pools, electric)

[nuala]

Canadianisms

Canada - US translation (including "about")

[nuala]

"It's been said that Canadians are simply disarmed Americans with health care. "

[Belinda_Cooperstone1]

hmm a lot of those things I never heard of!

[nuala]

I would say maybe three-four things I haven't heard of, but the rest is pretty accurate.

[Belinda_Cooperstone1]

really? where in Canada are you from?

[nuala]

Nova Scotia. Did you scroll al the way down?

[nuala]

I see you are from Nova Scotia, too. Hi! I lived on the West Coast for a while so maybe all these Canadianisms seem familiar to me but I don't know where I picked them.

[Vichel]

Originally Posted by Belinda_Cooperstone1

hmm a lot of those things I never heard of!

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? )

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.

[Repubocrat]

I heard "brown bread" when I ordered a sandwich at Tim Hortons. It sounded strange but it took me a few seconds to understand what she meant

[chicken.or.the.nugget]

Okay does anyone else do this?
I'm young (16) and think of air temperature in celsius, but water temperature in fahrenheit. It's weird....maybe because both my grandparents have pools and that's how they refer to it?