Canadian Accents, Slang, Foods, This or That
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Ever wondered if you pronounce certain words the same as a Canadian? Curious about slang words? What stereotypes have you heard about them? I'm here to answer all those things for you ;)
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Pronunciation 0:40
What would you call... 1:25
This or That? 3:09
Slang Words 4:34
Foods 6:46
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Canadians seem like the nicest people in the world. I would love to visit someday.
Im from America
It's an amazing place and its truly beautiful. Grew up hear and have and never will leave. I prefer the free health care
Aww! Thanks 😄
(I'm Canadian)
yess come aboot our facinating country
Just 1 suggestion :) I heard many people said the Quebecs are not really "friendly", like they have their own pride, so they're like edgy and ... u know :) So if you want to find nice people, i would suggest not coming there :) Anyway it's just my own thinking and ye, not all people are nice so :D
Im from Quebec and not all people are friendly BUT a lot of them are friendly. If you want friendly Quebecois, come to Quebec City. Maybe one of the friendliest places on Quebec.
PS Its mostly near Montreal that some Re less friendly. But there is mostly more friendly peeps in the cities near Montreal
But for english tourists, Quebec is not bilingual. :(
a buggy?? Canadian here. I call it a cart....shopping cart.....
So do I, he called pretty much everything in this video something I have NEVER heard before and I have lived in Canada my whole life and have never left even on vacation or something like that.
ya i have never heard buggy either.. im from ontario too
Neolia83
im From BC and i never heard of a Buggy either its called a shopping cart
I'm Canadian and I say grocery cart xD. I also say sneakers, not runners and a remote not a flicker.
Same here Bro but i just call it Shoes
And I don't know if it's just Canadians but almost in every household people never wear shoes inside. It's considered rude if u don't take your shoes off before entering someone's home
Well im Canadian and when im at my house i never wear shoes
Flicker?? What is that, im canadian and i call it a remote
Clicker or converter. My wife always says "converter". I always ask what it us supposed to convert... She says "the TV to the channel that I want"
I use clicker.
dude I'm Canadian too and I've apologized to walls for bumping into them 😂
love it
i personally think EH is more polite then HUH
perfectly ok, im from nova scotia/newfoundland (the land of funny accents) but im in BC now so yeah XD
100% agree! I do it and I dont even realize....just like saying sorry....the rumors are true....are a polite country.
hayley c
Hahaha I say sorry all the time!
I'm in Ontario Ottawa
As a Yank I like the sound of 'eh?' I agree that it is better sounding than 'huh?' or 'what's that?' (as we too often use here in the States). I had a Canadian girlfriend (Calgary) who used it sometimes as well as 'sorry' and I really liked that about her. I lived and worked in England for a while and the Brits use 'sorry' all the time too. When they use it they really don't mean it. Only if they say 'I am sorry' does it mean that they are truly sorry about something they did. I live in Seattle and have spent considerable time in Vancouver. Great surfing at Tolfino on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Haven't gone there yet but hear it is some of the best surfing on the northern west coast. We have Canadian surfers surfing all the time along the Washington State coast. Good people.
Who the hell calls it a buggy, it's a shopping cart.
Called a remote, clicker, or sometime even a converter. never a flicker.
Garage sale, yes, but also sometimes yard sale.
I don't even know what you are saying for this one, but we call them gutters.
lol, never heard bath robes (or just robes) called a "house coat"
We use napkins...
We call it both bathroom and washroom.
none of that slang was right, never use any of it.
That's not a toque.
this is the most annoying one: AGAIN WITH THE MILK BAGS! I have lived in Canada my entire life and I have never seen a bag of milk. Not in stores, not in people's homes, I have never seen them. It has to be an eastern/ontario thing.
That video was not quick.
Those are all the things wrong with this video. I am from BC, Canada, born, raised, and still living here.
***** that's stupid lol. Rather have a jug, that is easy to store, easy to pour, and still tastes better than eastern milk
***** not at all. unless you stuff your fridge with tons and tons of food. Do you have bags of chocolate milk too?
I completely agree, I live in Vancouver and we don't get our milk in bags. I went to Quebec once and they had bags of milk and it was really weird. Btw a toque is what people would call a beanie...
I use plastic milk bags all the time
Yea milk bags are only a Ontario thing.
Why are so many comments from other Canadians sooo negative, saying THAT'S WRONG I DON'T SAY THAT or whatever...
Guys, don't know if maybe you forgot, but Canada is HUGE and believe it or not, we're not all the same! What's true for him isn't necessarily true for you. Get over it and appreciate our national diversity!
Just have to say this. Ontario is not all of Canada. I'm from New Brunswick; my wife is from North Dakota. SHE says "runners", I say either "sneakers" or "running shoes". "Chesterfield?" Not likely; it's a couch. "Buggy"? WHO says that? Nobody I ever met, and my mother was from Ontario. It's a shopping cart. "Flicker"? It's a "remote" or a "clicker", for the technologically illiterate. And it IS "zed". How can you have never heard of "candy bar"? Don't you watch American television or movies? Now, I will admit to a very regional phrase for it: "nut bar". But that's probably only here in southern New Brunswick. Nobody I ever knew says "eh". It's foreign here in Atlantic Canada. It's a western-Canadian thing. And that is NOT A TUQUE! Are you loopy? Shit. I have to stop. There are too many mistakes in your video. Poutine does not contain CHEESE! It has cheese CURDS.
Whereabouts in NB? From Saint John here :)
Yep. Saint John. I used to hang around with a Peter DesRoches; any relation?
I'm not completely sure, there very well could be but I personally don't know him.
OK. Just asking. I don't know who actually posted the "Canadian Accents..." thing, but I meant no disrespect. Although I have been told that some of my observations are a bit "sharp". I'm sort of like Sheldon Cooper in that regard P). Take care.
eh IS an maritime thing...its mostly from Newfoundland but we say it here in Nova Scotia all the time. it is defiantly not a western Canadian thing to do!! but your right that is not a toque .. a toque is what Americans would call a beanie. and its cheese curds in a poutine and they are delicious!!
This is the most accurate and thorough Canadian Accent video I have come across so far ! You did and awesome job, so adorable !
From a Saskatchewanian:
I noticed your "about"s and "out"'s and "houses" being different.
And Buggy?
Hydro was also new to me in moving here. From what I understand, most of SK's electricity is from coal-powered technologies :(
We say napkins, not serviettes.
We don't have milk bags. That was also new.
We don't say supply teacher, we say "sub."
And I noticed "eh" a lot once I crossed the Manitoba-Ontario border. I was stopped somewhere to have breakfast and I noticed it quite a bit actually.
Some Saskatchewanian word: Bunnyhug (of course), Gitch, Gibled, Dainties, Grid Roads.
+Brendan Campbell (DudeBren) Cool! I love seeing the differences between provinces!
I'm from Saskatchewan too. I think we say about and house different here because Saskatchewan was settled by a lot of Germans, Scandinavians, and Ukrainians. We on the prairies tend to speak more harshly than they do in BC or out east. And hydro is such a weird word it seems to imply that all power comes from hydroelectricity. I've never heard of supply teacher. But I do think we say eh out here just not overly done.
oilersridersbluejays That's what I was thinking. I've learned German, and I notice that our "ou"s sounds like the German "au." Whereas the Ontarian (and Maritime) "ou" sounds like a Dutch pronunciation.
And some people back home probably say "eh," but I feel like there are those who don't at all. Personally, I don't feel like I do. But over here, it's so common. Perhaps the proximity to québec.
That's funny you mention that, as the town where I live many older people (including my grandparents) spoke German very often, and I picked it up from there. A few towns away there are a lot of Ukrainians, and I've noticed people from that area talk slightly different, and sometimes have strange sentences.
Even the politics are often different too. We are definitely very conservative minded compared to the rest of Canada, both in voting and in lifestyle.
What he forgot to mention is that Canada is always on top of America (look at the map).
And the map was created by rich white northern hemisphere people. There is no up and down in space.
I am Canadian and I agree that We use "Sorry" A lot
Some stuff thats different on the west coast:
1. we say "hey" not "eh" at the end of a statement to turn it into a question or add an implied question OR ask for agreement with the statement. (ie. "I'll give ya a shout, eh/hey?" mean "I will call you later. Is that okay?", "You went to the store, eh/hey?" means "Did you go to the store?" and finally "This fookin party, eh/hey?" means "What do you think of this party? Are you enjoying it?")
2. we do not get our milk in bags, we get it in jugs or cartons.
3. we do not say 2-4 but rather the number followed by "pack" (ie. 6-pack, 12-pack, 24-pack). We do however say Mickey for a 13oz bottle, 2-6 for a 26oz. bottle, and 40 for a 40oz bottle of liquor.
4. a "keener" has a slightly different meaning on the west coast. It just means someone who tries very hard in school (aka a "try-hard"). Keeners are usually also teacher's-pets but it is not required. It still has a negative connotation though.
5. We say "kays" not "klicks"
6. To clarify for americans, toques are beanies.
7. Vinegar on fries is very strange. We use exclusively ketchup, although I have also noticed a lot of people mixing black pepper into it but I dont know if that's super common.
8. Shopping cart.
9. Clicker or remote, but I say Unit Blaster because my parents are from Saskatchewan.
10. Finally, napkins.
I'm sure there's more differences but those or the main ones. Our accent is also more similar to California, Oregon, and Washington than the east of Canada.
Cheers.
+Loc Karr thanks for clarifying.
A few things wrong here. I'm a Canadian and I say washroom, or bathroom. Americans tend to say restroom. I don't wear track pants I wear sweatpants or sweats. And most importantly, I go to a public elementary school. Many of my friends go to a catholic elementary school. Here in Canada we do have elementary school, which are schools that range from kindergarten to grade 8. If it's public that means it demonstrates no religion, only being loyal to the country of Canada. If it's catholic, that means students are loyal to Canada and to catholicity. That's my rant.
Chloe Peters I'm from Canada too, but I live in a small town. We have kindergarten to grade 3, grade 4 to 6 and 7 to 12. We also have a Catholic school (kindergarten to 10). I got the the public ones.
Chloe Peters here we have k to 7 then 8 to 12 and in some cities it's k to 6 7 to 9 and then 10 to 12
To be honest, I live in Canada, but every province/territory is different. In Alberta, we say gutters (for the rain to run off our roofs), and a buggy? I didn't understand the question, it sounded more like a shopping cart. Also, we use a 'remote control' or a 'tv control', not flicker. A sale on the front lawn would be a 'yard sale' and in your garage, is a 'garage sale'. We also say Rollie Pollie, we say both 'elastics' AND 'rubberbands'. I've never heard of 'Hydro' but we in Alberta say 'electricity' as well. We also say napkins, sweatpants/trackpants, runners/sneakers/gym shoes, bathroom/washroom/restroom, it's all the same over here. Public schools and elementary schools in Alberta are very different. Elementary is grades K-6, and public schools are for everyone who follow the modified /traditional calendars/schedules, private schools are not open to the public. We also use 'substitute teacher' or 'the sub'. Also, curfuffle? I've never heard of that! XD We just say commotion over here. And poutine is gross! Lol I visited Ontario once, and was surprised by the bagged milk! I thought it was very inconvenient, compared to what we use, a plastic jug.
I'm not ranting and don't mean to take up the comments section, but there are a lot of differences between the east and the west of Canada. My Canadian accent is slightly different from yours, of course I know, because I can hear your accent. Love the video, it's nice to learn about different provinces. :) Keep posting more! :D
I hit a pole in a bus once and said 'sorry'.
Oh my gosh I do to and when someone steps on my foot or something I even say sorry
i ran into a pole once and tried to make it say sorry
yeah thats a true and legit stereotype. we do say sorry a LOT, we burp we say sorry, we bump in someone we say sorry, Someone bumps in us we still say sorry,we hit into an innanimate object, we say sorry. I guess we are simply a polite nation in Canada haha
LOOOOL i hit a garbage can and sayd sorry :")
Linda Nidal Sadeck
i hit my head on a pole and said fuck u to it
I am from Nova Scotia living in Ontario and I love this ... when we feel bad for someone we say "What a sin" lol
its amazing how different we sound! (British Columbia girl here)
me too! BC FOR THE WIN!
Same here, if you think his accent is different then you should hear someone from the maritimes.
BC for the Win ps im in BC
BC's the best! and we don't have weird bags of milk like ontario!
mgmalherbe maritimes?
I'm a college student (getting my Bachelor's in English) and I must say your video helped me a lot with one of my projects (about World Englishes)! Thanks a bunch! As to some of the criticism you've received from other fellow Canadians as to how you pronounce certain words, I think that if others are also from Canada and are not happy with it, they should record one themselves instead of trying to bring you down. Then people like me could see different perspectives! Congrats and thanks again!
i've never gotten the whole track pants/ sweat pants thing??? they're different things
and i've never once heard a canadian where i live say 'can i have a serviette'
I'm not a Canadian but the family I lived with said serviette and that's when I learnt the word. Never heard them say napkin or something else 0.0
the term paper towel is popular to
I don't call them napkins
when i speak french i say serviette but even sometimes when i speak french i'll say napkin. My parents used to say napkin even tho they didnt speak english. sometimes i'll say paper towel, but normally when i say paper towel i mean like the brand Bounty.. to wipe stuff on objets, not myself.
A couple more:
We have a grad, not a prom - but that is changing quickly.
University students live in residences (Rez) not dorms.
First Nations communities are on reserves - not reservations.
Soldiers, sailors and airmen are in the Canadian Armed Forces - or just the Forces. We've adopted a lot of American terms though, so they are also in "the military". We have military bases and stations - not camps or forts.
btw i dont call it a buggie or whatever, i call it a shopping cart ;)
same here!
In Winnipeg Manitoba we say:
Shopping cart
Runners
Napkin
Remote (tv remote)
Poutine is usually pronounced "poo-teen" (but some also pronounce it as "poo-tin")
- Devil's night is also called Gate night
- Native reserves are called "rez" or "the rez", whereas uni/college living spaces are just called a residence
- We only say track pants IF they're actually gym-style track pants, all other styles are just called sweat pants
- That "drive-through" beer/other alcohol store (more like "drive-up") is called a BEER VENDOR
- Toque isn't what you're wearing, a toque is the one that's just round & fitted on your head. I think what you're wearing we just call a winter hat or ear hat.
Some of the words you mentioned we don't use, like "keener"...
Alberta is the exact same way :) We also say "The States", because really, they're not "AMERICA". We're North American and there is still South America too. It almost sounds self-centred to call one's self 'all of America'. Some slang way of saying tissue in my city (not sure about other places), is Kleenix. Kleenix is actually a brand of tissues. The drying-tissues for your hands that you throw away in washrooms, are called paper-towels. Not sure if it's the same everywhere though. Just sharing a few thoughts :)
That's EXACTLY the same here in Manitoba too! ^^
tenshimoon Many people here (in Ontario) call them "the States" as well.
CANADA ROCKS !!!!!!
I'm Canadian and I say please and thank-you a lot .
As a german I think the canadias have the best understandable english accent.
I am from Australia and we are sooooo similar! I love Canadians!
OH please do not say that!!! I am Canadian. And if anything, I would rather be similar to Americans than Aussies and Britts. Ewwwwww…….
My dad was in the states once and asked for a pop and they said sorry we don't sell Popsicles
+SarahJane Comeau LOL
+Sjc Challenges and vids kinda feel sorry for americans.
I say pop...
Im New Brunswick Canadian, this video seems mostly correct to me, but being such a massive country there's obviously going to be lots of differences with different people growing up with different immigrated families and in different cities and town.
The other Canadians who live further west say we've got the stereotypical accent more than they do, and though it seems none of us can hear the difference, we do hear other Candians who come from even further east and their accents are crazy stereotypical so I tend to believe it works this way for most of us.
UMMMMMMMMMM ?????? I AM CANADIAN AND I CALL A CART A CART NOT A BUGGIE AND I SAY HELLO AND I SAY Z I CALL A COUCH A COUCH i call it a bathrobe we dont care what we call bathrooms THIS IS A PARTIAL STEREO TYPE D: PLUS I DO NOT SAY EH [well maybe ONCE IN A AWHILE] but Americans say huh ALOT plus here in Alberta we get milk jugs [most of the heavily accented people live in the Ontario area] and i do say sorry alot
umm hate to break it to you but people in Ontario have the most tame accents and they get heavier the further east or west you go....
well i am down in alberta and really no one but olders men talk like that [70 or 80 years old]
Woah calm down! Even if you are both Canadians (and me too), accents change from place to place and province to province, it's the same with America. Even in Québec where I live the French accents can change a lot between say Montréal and Québec city. It's just how he learnt things where he's from and how you learnt it where you are from.
Whitney! down in Alberta?
well from where he is yes down or to the side idc
This is one of the most accurate explanation I've seen yet, not COMPLETELY but very close.
The first pronunciation of poutine you said was right, because "putain" has another veeery different meaning.
The second way he pronounced it was French, and the second one is actually right. Poutine is a French word, I believe (from what my mother told me)
If I'm wrong, I apologize :)
MeggyB11 Of course Poutine is a french word haha The proper pronunciation is "poo-tin", but some English speakers pronounce it "poo-tain" which means whore in French
no, he said poutine in the french pronunciation. im canadian, and thats how we say it at school in class bc french school
Hey i'm Canadian as well and I live in Montreal currently, i'm just saying in Quebec "poo-tin" is the correct pronunciation haha If you go to Quebec and ask for a putain you won't get fries.
Lol swear word
I am also from Ontario and we use grocery carts, remotes, and running shoes, haha.
I live in the states and I never heard of someone putting mayonnaise on their fries
I have. It's just, regional. Yeah. Because it would depend on what city/state you live in. (I'm a Michigander.) I like my fries plain and with little salt.
Matt Williams mmmmm salt+vinegar fries
French/Belgian influence = mayo with fries. British influence = vinegar with fries. American influence = ketchup with fries. Thus, in Quebec we use all three... but not all at the same time, of course!
I'm Canadiana and I put mayo on fries
im american and i put mayo and ketchup on my fries lol its an itailian thing
Hey I am from Newfoundland and I now realize how different we are from Canada. Thanks for the video!
I'm from Edmonton, some of those things you said aren't the same here...
Same I'm from Calgary and we don't say buggy or flicker
Same here in New Brunswick
same here in ontario
Jess Kalfordactually,ive heard buggy a bit, but mainly its shopping cart
+Jacob Code i'm from Alberta and we dot say things like that.....
The problem with this is the fact that Canada just like the states is that going over 500 to 1000 km you can have a major difference in accents. I'm looking at you Quebec
Also for people thinking only we say "eh" here is a bunch off of Wikipedia. Armenian, Hokkien Chinese, Japanese, French, Finnish, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Malay, Spanish, Persian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Korean and Catalan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eh (and no i didnt go and change it)
Spanish people don't say eh
French and Italians don't say eh either
Not so much the accent, but what your saying. I myself am southern Canadian (just about as southern Canadian as it gets) and I've never myself used or heard any of your slang terms. Although, I guess I forgot how big southern Canada really is. Maybe I was a little quick to comment. I'm sure that where you live in Canada uses the words you listed. If you ever decide you make another video like this for some reason, maybe make it a little more specific.
In BC, we called the new highway in Vancouver to the Fraser Valley the "freeway" in the 1960s when it was new to distinguish it from the old Lougheed highway that ran parallel to it.
WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU, YOU DON'T LIKE POUTINE?!?!?!?!
ikr, i guess it depends where you got it, some restaurants have the gravy way too salty which makes it bad, but normally it's f'n delicious. and you cant either just judge by looking at it, you have to try it to know how it tastes lol
Yeah I was talking to an American yesterday from California I was playing online video game. and my parents we’re going out to McDonald’s and asked me what I wanted so I said a poutine and the American goes wtf is that so I say it’s french fries gravy and cheese curds. And he goes “that’s fucking disgusting what the hell how can you eat that” I said what part about is disgusting? He said french fries and gravy wtf. I found that pretty weird whenever I’m in Costco I order their french fries and get some gravy to dip it into maybe I’m weird but I do that
Buggy? Flicker? As a Canadian, from Alberta, I have never heard of those words. I did notice you pronounce "lawn" as "laan." Here in Alberta, the people in the small towns say eh a LOT :). I say soda. But I say bill. Lol. This is kind of cool.
I've heard "buggy" before. We call them carts (shopping carts) here I think. Never really heard "flicker". (Short for dooma-flicker?).
And yes, the Easterners especially pronounce "about" as "aboot". ("Ou" in general is quite "oo"). Do you really say "soda"? Soda to me is definitely "club soda" - a non-flavoured/sweetened carbonated water. The kind you use to water down things like Scotch, or spray from a clown's bottle. Pop is flavoured/sweetened carbonated drinks. The rest is pretty much right on. Fascinating to me given how close we are to the US. If you do this again with the UK, it would be even weirder I'm sure!
who the fuck says curfuffle .. I don't know ANYBODY or met ANYBODY In Canada who ever said that. ive been to every single province. and stayed for more then 2 weeks at a time.
Well you just met one... because i do.
And now there's TWO! I say that all the time, alone with canoodle, another favourite of mine :)
almost every teacher i've ever had, and myself.
I'm Canadian. Torontonian
all you said is so true!
I live in Saskatchewan and we don't have bagged milk
I think we only have them in Atlantic
We don't either in BC. It must be an ontario thing, and they seem to think all of Canada has it.
Yeah I'm from Alberta and I've NEVER seen a bag of milk
I live in Ontario, and when I was younger, my parents would have milk bags. Now we have jugs, but some of my friends and family still have bags. :)
MeggyB11 bags are so stupid, I can't even understand how anyone would possibly use them.
this is all pretty regional for Canada , out west we call them shopping carts, bathrobe, we call it power, we call them sweats, milk in a bag is an eastern thing (we get gallon jugs of milk here), we call them soft drinks.
That is NOT a toque.
I'm totally addicted to this video!
Our accents are similar. But I'm from Michigan, and that's close to Canada. I call icing frosting. And most Americans use ketchup on fries. Potato bug? Rolly polly.
Oh my gosh I love that word you use for potato bug! Rolly polly...it's so much more fun!
in BC we call them wood bugs
the1andonlykid123 So that's what other people are taking about when they say "Rolly Polly" and "Potato Bug" ITS A WOOD BUG.
Im from Canada and i just love it here
Thanks for posting this video. I love Canada. I have toured all through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. My best friend and I are planning a trip to Toronto and Montreal next summer. I can't wait. this American will be glad to spend my money in a friendly nation. :-)
Canadian from Ontario here and this guy is pretty accurate from my experience. Only thing I disagreed with is that we call it yard sales, not garage sales. Garage sales are for rainy days and also it's usually on a Saturday but also on Sundays. Also the milk in bags is not Canada wide either. I also say Zee not Zed but that is probably a habbit picked up from being close to the American border and watching their tv.
My husband was born and raised in B.C....Campbell River, Vancouver Island and Vancouver. He did have a few words that made him disclose his heritage. LOL Aboot, runners, pop, buggy, clicker, you guys, washroom, zed, hydro. One last one that came up was decal. He pronounced it as deck-cul. We pronounce it Dee-cal. He didn't care for poutine either. Mayo on fries? Yuuuuccck! Vinegar? YES! Milk in a bag? What kinda bag? Never heard of that. Oh yeah, and duct tape. He called it gaff tape. I'm a Floridian and I now say EH all the time. And the word Ya in place of the word Yes is used in B.C. a lot too. Liked the vid. Eh
Milk in a bag.. Mostly in Ontario. It's a plastic bag filled with milk that you put in a milk container so it doesn't spill. You cut one of the top corners of the bag to pour milk. Search up "Milk bag container" on google images and you should get a good example of what it looks like. Also searching "How to use a milk bag" on youtube could also give you a good example of how it looks like and how it works. Hope this helped you :)
Milk does not come in a bag in Alberta. Also, proper poutine is with cheese curds.
Coming from BC, I can tell that the west side is totally different from the rest of Canada...
believe me, im canadian living in ontario, and i have friends which have deep roots in Canada, and they sound completely different from this, they dont sound like newfies but sort of like Alberta, and so forth, For me i speak just with a "Average north american" accent, though sometimes, i get some canadian words shot out.
this year, in my town, we had snow till the end of may (i'm from Canada btw)
I live in florida but half of my family lives in Matinoba and Ontario and I have that type of accent . I think it sounds cool .
And I love to put mayonnaise on my fries. I'm from Ontario and I love that hat
buggy and flicker? I've never heard that in Ontario ever
delfiglio I'm from New England and we say carriage/cart and clicker.
In Saskatchewan we are not cool enough for milk in bags. Just super expensive plastic jugs and cardboard that likes to fall apart
ahh me and my bf are planning to move to ontaria within the next 3 years... Were originally welsh and its nice to know that a lot of the terminology is the same!
I'm from New England and you say a lot of the same things that we do, pronunciations and all.
EastTexan here, we call carbonated beverages like sprite coke here. Washrooms are restrooms and no milk bags ;)
Eh replaces a question tag. You like coffee, don't you? Instead people would say, You like coffee, eh? Or another example. He is a good guy, isn't he? = He is a good guy, eh? So we use EH to replace the grammatically correct way to change a statement into a confirmatory question. I say ZED, pop, and I speak French only because I made an effort to learn it. Now I live in Quebec. Thanks for this. I enjoyed your video!
Milk in a bag: the milk comes in a 1.5 litre bag, and you put it in a little milk bag holder and you snip the corner off so you can pour it into your glass, or on your cereal.
That sounds like a lot of hassle. Our jugs and cartons out west work remarkably well.
oilersridersbluejays It actually isn't a lot of hassle at all! It's very easy to hold and the bags are recyclable and small.
I've always wanted to live in Canada. It's sucks living here in Florida because the weather is all over the place. Snow and better food ftw!
In Alberta we have drive thru liquor stores, they're called bevvy thrus
I'm from Victoria and we say cart or buggy, couch or chesterfield, we do not get milk in a bag but in a one or two litre cartan or a 4 litre jug. We do say things like if it is barley raining "it is spitting out" and in Victoria if some one is out they are "out and about" and if we are north of Victoria on the Island we are "up Island"
I grew up in Ontario and moved back to Saskatchewan when I was 12. I can always spot an Ontario accent.
Theres a few words we use too for example freeway we also say highway
I'll also say that what we put on our fries depends a LOT on where you're from. Here in Minnesota, we definitely do NOT put mayo on fries!
My family used to buy the cartons of milk but when I was little it was so heavy for me and I spilled it so my mom decided to by the bags of milk XD
I'm sorry, but I'm from Montreal, Canada, and we use the etymology "aluminium". Most likely because we have both French and English as official languages and speak both. Aluminium is used in French etymology so we use it in English as well. Other than that we do say shopping cart and trolley depending on the sub cities in Montreal.
They are called cement bugs in MB, we also have drive thrus where you can buy beer usually or coolers. They dont really sell hard alcohol. It's like last call but you can drive with it if it's not open. The one I remember going to was called The SPike,
Milk in jugs not bags xD you know the works.
It's interesting to see something you thought was so natural in your country seem so bizarre to someone else. Nice video dude :p
I'm from Toronto and we call it Shopping Cart. I say buggy sometimes but we definitely don't say trolley :)
I'm from Maine and we use a lot of those
I've noticed that a lot of these words are the same in Canadian as they are in Scottish English and English English (if that makes sense)
Give u a shout
Chocolate bar
Drinking age
Kurfuffle
Metric system
The whole ay thing (with questions)
Vinager on chips
There is regional differences in Canada. I'm from Saskatchewan and never heard of Devil's Night, a buggy, a flicker, or hydro. Here they are called October 30th, a shopping cart, a remote control, and power company/power bill. Interesting to know!
Actually I'm from Ontario and have never head any of those terms before ether
Ya know that what you call some things in Ontario are called something else in the in the Atlantic Provinces, and no doubt something else again on the west coast.
I also call a "clicker" a remote and a "buggy" a cart
I'm Canadian and ive actually never had milk in a bag we get it in a jug in Alberta
Im in saskachewan and we do in jug too :)
i have a friend from Lower Sackville and i definitely noticed something when she would say "About" but really its like any word with ou that i hear the difference between American accent and a canadian accent.
I'm from Ontario too, but a bunch of the words are rather different!
Massachusetts they call the water fountain a "Bubbler", that maybe why the question was sent.
never heard buggy being used before in BC i've only head it being called a shopping cart or grocery cart
Compared to a lot of these videos I agreed with a lot of this, I'm also in ottawa
I'm from niagara falls Ontario and I don't call it a flicker and I call it a shopping cart but most of the other ones r what I say! I say check lol. most Canadians do say Zey instead of Zed
Nice video, but 3 things: First off, YES!!! Another Canadian that finds poutine nasty! lol Second, good job accurately explaining the real use of "eh" (lol) Third, I'm just going to put out there a Westerner's opinion, because I notice East and West Canada have some differences (bag milk anyone?). I would like to hear some other Canadian's opinions, because I would genuinely like to know if it's just me or if this is really the case.
I have to say I've only ever heard it called a cart (instead of buggy) and a remote (instead of flicker...? That one made me laugh). Also, no one calls napkins "serviettes", even though that is what's on the package...I always hear "washroom" when the speaker is in public, but when I'm at someone's house, including my own, it's referred to the "bathroom". I've only heard sweatpants, or more commonly "sweats". "Track pants" is usually reserved for those sports pants with the lines down the sides. Same sort of thing with "bathrobe" and "house coat"; I think it comes down to the material. (Bathrobes are what we call those cloth material robes and house coats are fleece, satin, wool etc). "Give a shout" is really slang (and is often used in the same sentence as 'buddy' lol); I've only ever heard "call" in a serious conversation. I've heard of "keener" but never used by anyone (only brown noser or suckup). Touque has always been what we call ski caps; the ear flap hats, we always just called "hats". This one might be a family thing though. I think "Caramel" was in there somewhere? I've heard it equally as "cara-mel" and as "car-mel", though "cara-mel" is more common, I think. As for the bag milk thing; my mom says she's seen it in stores before but I never have (and definitely not in my town in northern BC). Thoughts?
from bc and never seen bag milk and also that guy isnt wearing a tuque
Me and my family and everyone - basically - in my area call the bug that rolls into a bug when you touch it, a "rolly polly"
the way you say about sounds very common with the scottish accent
fries are ate with mayo in many European countries too! I make my own mayonaise and then add a bit of garlic and black pepper in it and then i dip my fries in it ... sooo goooood!
Oh and To have real poutine it have to be cheese curd.. and the "gravy" well i dunno how to explain it but it's not the gravy you would eat with a steak.. chicken gravy could do tho.. :) There is many variation of poutine i like mine with A LOT of meat :)
That seems odd since the alphabet pre-dates Mozart's "Twelve Variations" melody as well as the nursery rhyme. As well, according to Wikipedia, In most dialects of English, the letter's name is 'zed' /ˈzɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta, but in American English, its name is 'zee' /ˈziː/, deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form.
If anything zed makes far more sense as it's a closer tie to the Greek alphabet.
In Alberta, we have jugs for our milk. I'm pretty cure bags are only in the eastern part, the western, and probably eastern too, have jugs and cartons. I haven't seen a bag of milk any time I've gone shopping, except in Ontario when i'm visiting an uncle
1) a shopping cart
2) a remote / clicker
From Ontario, Canada
Me and my family in Canada call the "tv remote" a "clicker" :)
Fun facts, the more you know, huh? 😊
Whenever I need someone to repeat something I don't say "eh?" I say "pardon?" haha. Also I LOVE poutine. I also say sorry way too much. Like, someone will bump into me and I'm the one to say sorry and I usually say it multiple times. I'm American but my mom and her mom is from Canada. The rest of the line on my mom's side is German.
I love how he says 'about' it cute!!!!!! now I see why NZ people like Canadian, American and British people's accents...
I've lived in America my whole life (born as as well as raised) and I seem like I am more Canadian than American. Now isn't that weird.
Great video man!