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Actually, in Canada, though distance is officially measured in kilometers, we more often give distances in time (Montreal is five hours from Toronto, rather than Montreal is 540 kilometers from Toronto).
Same here in little PEI Canada it's always time-based never kilometers. And more often on top of that you'd get "turn right at the blue house" but the blue house was torn down 20 years ago everyone just knows where it used to be. It's rare that you'll never get told more than 1.5 hours since that's the farthest away from the capital city each way unless it's some place off island.
Quebecer here…. Soft drink for me, not soda or pop. 1km…. We also saw K for running/walking distance, I ran a 5K. 1 walked around 2K. We never say the Ay at the end to ask à question, I use right but probably from watching TV. Restroom, washroom or toilet for me.toilet might be the French influence.
@@notawamen2311 As a Canadian I can find Americans rude but it's important to judge their behaviour against their fellow Americans. Her behaviour seems normal to me when I consider that. We just have different social customs.
@@SM-yz4hi typically is popsicle, ice pop(sicle), or freezer pop(sicle) in my neck of the woods. Depending on the context electricity is interchangeable with "power" and most people where I live many just call soda "Coke" but I use soda or soft drink.
Americans do that too. "I'm four hours from New York City" for example. Really, there is very little difference between Canadian and American English, I've never in my life heard someone speak and realized they were from Canada (unless it was Quebec.)
Most definitely. We also still use miles (rather than kilometres) - especially on the prairies where farmers haven’t switched over to the metric system
As a Canadian, the only time I’ve ever heard someone say serviette is if they were speaking in French. I’ve always heard napkin in English. I live in Northern Ontario for reference.
In BC, most people I know call a case of beer a "flat." If it's 0.5L ones, usually it's called "a flat of tall boys." Never heard anybody use serviette, only napkin.
@@austink-v8261 interesting, what would you say? I just googled "flat of beer" and multiple breweries and website in Vancouver popped up. Maybe it's a Vancouver thing only, but I'm sure I've heard it used in the interior as well.
@@ashleyargall8791 yeah cause canadians have to go on and on about how they aren't american. in america we never give a thought about canada. it doesn't matter to us at all. most of us have never been to that icebox and have no interest in it. especially here in the southern US.
When Canada was switching to the metric system they showed us a way to convert from km to miles which is handy for converting to time. For example, drop the right-most digit (which is usually a zero) and multiply the rest by 6. So 100 km becomes 10 multiplied by 6 which equals 60 miles or 60 minutes.
Milk in bags is totally a thing in Canada, but it's regional. You'll see it in Ontario, New Brunswick, I think Nova Scotia, PEI, and parts of Quebec, as well. It's not sold in bags in Newfoundland and Labrador, and western Canada, nor (I think) the territories.
I live in Alberta and lived here when we used to get it in bags, but after they went away, I was surprised to find bagged milk out in BC at the Save On. I had to go buy the milk bag container just for reminiscing.
I though the American woman came across as a bit rude , she threw a bit of shade towards bob regarding the cig comment , to me it shows there typical rude nature .
Canadian here. Loved this video. Just one slight correction: the bird on the back of the one dollar coin is a loon, and thus extended to become a loonie.
@@vickiekostecki I actually like that! Unfortunately, I did not hear that option at the time the toonie came out. Also, until a few years back, in my mind I always spelled it, ‘twoonie’, (for the number two).
The two-dollar coin features the image of a polar bear on the reverse; there was a very brief period of time when people toyed with the idea of calling it the "Bear Buck."
@@douvin as a southern ontarian (Toronto suburbs) i agree that i say a lot of things differently than him. sometimes it was moreso that people i know dont use the word he mentions, but i know that it is used here. However there were a lot (like serviette, wtf??) that we definitely dont say :P also parkade.....
As a French-Canadian that only spoke fluent English around age 15-16 (when I started college at McGill), then lived in the UK for year, then moved to the US... My English is a serious hodge-podge of miscellaneous words and expressions! So I really enjoyed this video! Thanks Lucy, love your charm & wit!
@@Someone89710 In Quebec, you go to grade 11 in high school and then, CEGEP, but once upon a time, you started university after grade 11. In NL, it was the same thing--you went to university after grade 11.
It is sooo interesting how we, as Afrikaans mother tounge speakerss in South Africa, learned a complete mixture of British and American English vocab at school.
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I lived in England for twelve years. Then I moved to the US and sometimes it felt like learning a new language. Some people would correct my pronunciation sometimes and I often thought I had mispronounced the word because English is not my first language, but after double checking the pronunciation in a dictionary, I would realise that I had pronounced it with an English accent (herb, nauseous, water, etc)
Hi Moni, I'm learning all the uses of would because I'm messing up with this word sometimes though I've seen Lucy videos and other videos explaining when we should use this word so I have some questions about what you wrote: 1) When you wrote "Some people would correct my pronunciation" did you use would here because you meant a typical behavior or willingness in the past?. 2) When you wrote "I would realise" why did you use "I would" instead of "I realised"? Thanks in advance to you or whoever who is willing to answer these doubts!
Ha ha! I’m glad you answered that. I instinctively knew the “would + verb” was correct, but I couldn’t explain other than exactly how Oscar put it. Something you customarily did in the past, but now you don’t. It’s because in English you can use the simple past for both preterit and imperfect. That’s what makes Spanish tough for an English speaker. Is this ongoing in the past or a one time occurrence (over and done)? Donde estabas? (Estaba en casa. Estuve enferma.) Estar and ser gets most English speakers every time!
Yes and no. Often when someone from England (a pom) comes and visits Australia, they feel its their role to 'correct' us with various pronunciations and words. I take great pride in how our language has evolved.
I’m American, and we also say ‘parking structure’ if it’s multiple levels. Parking lot denotes a flat, open space but it is interchangeable with structure.
I'm Canadian, but I tend to use a mix of all three versions of English. Some Canadian words Bob mentions, I've never heard of like the "stag and doe" or "jack and jill". Very interesting...
Oh you’re just like me I mean I was raised in Canada But the area I was raising had so much English people I actually talk to the in the accent but sometimes
Depends where you grow up, for most of it. Bob's from Eastern Canada, probably Ontario; he used distance to Niagra Falls as a reference. I grew up in Alberta and apparently have more in common with the US lady's colloquialisms. 😂
One thing that is almost exclusive to the province of Manitoba is the social, where a large party is held to raise money for a certain cause like a charity or a wedding. It’s similar to a mixer on US college campuses.
Wow, this is so interesting for me, cuz I learned English as my second language, and I was always stressed that I will use some British word in the US or American in Canada and people would think I'm weird lol. But I guess you guys don't care much and do it yourselves
Being a western Canadian I can tell that Bob is somewhere from eastern Canada. In the west we tend to have more American speech influence and less French influence. For example, I rarely ever hear the word serviette. It is always a napkin. I also know from experience that Canadians on the east coast have a large number of variations on their speech that differ from anywhere else in Canada. East coast dialect is where a number of Canadian stereotypes originate from.
yeah, there was a lot of stuff that he said Canadians say, that at least in western Canada, Ive never heard someone say. I never use "hydro" for power, I use "bathroom", not "washroom", I use "zee", not "zed", I use milk cartons, not milk bags, etc.
I was thinking that as well or perhaps the interior. I've lived in Vancouver my whole life(30 years) and just wanted to share my personal experience. I use zee. I use sneakers but in a running context, sometimes I use runners or running shoes. I don't usually say loonie/toonie unless I'm asked what type of coin I'm holding, I just say a buck or two bucks. I use pop and very rarely hear soda. Never heard anyone use clicks except in American military movies. First time hearing jack and jill/stag and doe, I've only heard of bachelor/bachelorette party. I've only heard of fire station, I've never heard of fire hall. I say electricity but understand hydro, I very rarely hear someone refer to it as hydro and it would be the older generation that would say it. Never heard of serviette, I would say napkin. For cigarettes, cigarettes is the more formal form to me, generally I hear smokes, i.e. can I get a pack of smokes, can I bum a smoke. Never heard of two four, I would say a pack/case of beer or if I want to be specific, a 12 or 24 pack. Also, I never say eh and I don't hear it very often.
My guess would be that he's from Ontario. On the east coast, we're much more likely to use the English versions than what he is using. No one would say hydro. It's power.
American here, originally from Long Island, New York. I did some research into why we pronounce the letter Z as "zee," rather than "zed" and where the pronunciation originated. Believe it or not, we actually inherited it from England. At one point in history, "zee" was used as an alternative pronunciation for the letter Z in England. When the English first colonized what is now the United States, the alternative pronunciation made its way over to the colonies, so for a long time, both "zed" and "zee" were used in the U.S., depending on what area a person was from, or if the person inherited the pronunciation from their parents. "Zed" began to fall out of use in the U.S. when Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, wrote "An American Dictionary of the English Language." In it, he listed the correct pronunciation for the letter Z as "zee." In addition, American music publisher Charles Bradlee, who wrote the A.B.C. (alphabet) song, chose the pronunciation of "zee" because it rhymed with the rest of the song. Q-R-S T-U "VEE" W-X Y and "ZEE" These things helped to popularize "zee" to the point that it just became the proper way to pronounce the letter Z in the U.S. and what was taught in every school. There's your history lesson for the day. Now the question remains, why did "zee" fall out of use in British English?
The falling out of Zed is more than likely attritubed to American media/entertainment and influence over the world plus Britain has been a historical melting pot of cultures and languages. From the first peoples to the Brittonic and Gaelic Celts; the Romans; the Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Danes; the Vikings; and then modern immigration, I think British Isles has had one of the most interesting evolution of languages and dialects
@@PapaSmurf337 All of that evolution happened before America existed! The Celts (and most of the rest) didn't even speak English! What's your point as it makes no sense regards language evolution? The main evolution change is the US colonies homogenising different English accents into the US variant.
@@aldozilli1293 I never said the historical Celts spoke English. Do you misinterpret things often? I said American Media has a major influence on the world and that the British Isles have been a historical melting pot for various peoples, do you need everything to be spelled out?
I was born in Toronto and lived there till I was 13, my mother is from London, England and I’ve lived in the southern USA for the past 14 years. This whole video about made me pass out trying to figure out why every single thing you guys said sounded correct 😂
I was born in Saskatchewan, with a mother who came here from the Southern US (North Carolina), and although I never lived in England, I spent enough time there, so I think I know what you mean.
Depending on the area in Canada the names can be different. I'm in western Canada and we use the term napkin not serviette. We also measure distance in time "Calgary in a half hour from here" as opposed to how many kms or "clicks". We also use the word "bathroom" or washroom. And to answer your question about our milk coming in bags, that's an eastern Canada thing too. I remember when the bags initially came to western Canada there was a lot of backlash so in W Canada we only get our milk in cartons or jugs. Great video :)
I am Canadian born and raised (Ontario). I have now lived over half my life in various parts of the US, both North and South and have traveled East and West. I believe Bob's accent/vocabulary is typical of Ontario. One of my sisters has spent the majority of her adult life in northern Newfoundland. I could not understand my nephews over the telephone LOL. Their accent, vocabulary and idioms were very regional. So there can be some very distinct differences in the English language in Canada as you see in the US.
Yes. Bob sounds like he's from Southern Ontario. I was born and raised in Ottawa. Many of Bob's terms I've either never heard of, or maybe rarely heard in some instances..
No question about it, Newfoundland has a distinct accent, some unique words and phrases. Like many places the degree to which you hear those differences varies, usually being more pronounced as you get away from the city.
All I remember my first time talking to a person from NFLD is that I thought she was speaking another language. Also, their tempo is insanely fast. I LOVE their accent, and loved visiting the east coast.
I love the fact that we in Canada use British spelling which can actually save money. For example, in my province of New Brunswick ( the one officially bilingual one), we use the British spelling of "centre" which is also the French spelling so rather than make 2 signs for "City Center" and then "Centre Ville" we simply put "City Centre Ville". Saves space and money.
We only use British spelling for some things. Yes, we use all those extra "u"s that the Americans don't. But we have tires, not tyres, using one example. What I find (born in NB but living in western Canada for the past 42 years), is that we seem to be a blend of the two systems. We carry much of our British heritage, but also a mixture of language we've picked up from our neighbour to the south.
@@cdpond When I used to write papers and used the British spelling for some words, they were always marked as wrong. Mostly it was for theatre because we have to write theater. Bummed me out because I enjoyed the other spellings similarly, I enjoy adding other words to my speaking to make it interesting and make sentences pop.
@@ameliab7245 My 6th grade English teacher (in Texas) wrote both theatre and theater on the board. She told us to pick one and stick to it. She said it did not matter which one we used as long as we were consistent. I have been writing theatre ever since.
I agree with many of the comments made about Bob’s english, that he’s using very specific southern Ontario terms and accent. I’m from Saskatchewan and I’ve never used terms like “hydro” “serviette” or “two four.”
BC here. Agree that Ontario doesn’t speak for Canada! Serviette is not common here, napkin is. We refer to Hydro as the provider as the main power provider is BCHydro. “Did you get your Hydro bill?”, but we call electricity ‘power’, as in “Hey - is your power out?” If you said your hydro was out, we’d know you were an Ontario spy and we’d deport you to Alberta as punishment.
This is eastern Canada, there is a lot of variation when you head west, lots of terms like hydro, stag and doe and serviette aren't the norm in places like Saskatchewan.
Same obviously for alberta. We’re gas and coal power supplied. So we don’t call things Hydro. And I’d bot understand someone talking about stag and doe events. I’d assume they were talking about hunting. Of course you saskies like your bunny hugs instead of the more reasonable hoodie.
Same with us Atlantic Canadians. Napkins, Power, Bachelor(ette) parties, Freezies, sneakers. I've also heard of stag parties, but that would be more of a baby boomer term. I'd assume Bob is from Ontario. Milk bags were around when I was younger, but I don't think I've seen one in at least a decade. 24 beer is always called a two-four, and a 12 pack is a "case". One interesting difference I've noticed between Atlantic Canada and Ontario is what they call a 750ml bottle of liquor. We call it a quart, they call it a two-six or two-sixer (26oz).
@@MatthewFraser1 From Ontario myself, and there were a lot of terms Bob used that I've never heard in my life, especially the stag and doe and all that
In NL, it is a Stag, or stag night. Hen party maybe. In a storm we lose the power, beer is either a twofour or a dozen. A pop is a coke, even if you want a pepsi
It is interesting that Bob used clicks as a "slang word" for kilometer. A click is a (US American) military term for distance, wich is also a kilometer long.
I'm Puerto Rican and you're not alone concerning the mixed use of miles and kilometers. We measure speed in mph, but distance between towns is in kilometers. Also, weather is measured in F but body temperature is measured in either C or F. Milk is sold in liters, half-gallons and gallons. Fuel is sold in liters. We definiteily need to sort this out, hahaha!
As a new English learner, I watched your video with great pleasure. Although I live in Canada, I also learned things I had never heard of. Thank you for such a beautiful sharing.
In the US, we use the term “buck” for a dollar because during colonial times, we used to barter quite regularly. And one item to barter with were deer pelts. Generally a male deer (buck) pelt was worth about the same as 1 dollar. So, you could pay with a dollar, or a buck-skin.
In Alberta, Canada, we don’t use hydro; we call it electricity. Here, we have milk in cartons, not bags and have stag and stagette parties. We say napkin and buy a flat and/or a 2-4 (often pronounced “two-fer”) of beer. Great show! 😊
Glad I stumbled across this video. I am a Canadian but I went to school in Engand for a year when I was 12-13. We lived on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border in the delightfully named town of Leighton-Buzzard, which of course, my Canadian friends immediately referred to as Buzzard, England. It took me three months to get used to British English and actually, I soon realized that there were SO MANY different accents in England. This is also when I first became aware of the fact that as a Canadian, I had an accent! Canadians always think we don't have accents (except for Newfoundland - but that was part of the UK until 1949) although we think most Americans have strong accents, and spell certain words incorrectly, like colour or flavour or centre. However I soon learned that our retail giant Canadian Tire was an affront to the English language, at least in England! I also couldn't understand what my classmates were saying when they greeted me every morning. Oi! Watcha' Mate! Well, is that a question or a statement and what the hell does it mean? Watch my what?! My back?! Haha, eventually I figured it out. Fascinating though. The following year when I returned to Canada I had actually picked up a slight English accent and the first week of school I got the nickname Limey! Anyways, as fate would have it, I ended up becoming an English teacher abroad for many years in Japan and later China and Vietnam. I like to think the curiosity that led to that started with my experiences in England. Language is fascinating! Keep up the great work!
I always enjoy these, but I have to say there is so much regional and/or generational difference in the US that frankly you could do an entire series just on those.
I was the 1st US born of my Canadian family, so it was really neat hearing the all of them together. My Grandfather was born in the UK too, so I grew up with a delicious combination. This was great fun to watch 😃
Same thing for Americans. I live in California, and I've never heard someone call it a "paper tissue". Just tissue and I've also heard of 24-pack used too. As for accent, there is a neutral accent that is shared between all states though. People can't pinpoint my place of residence based on accent. But they may by certain vocabulary though.
Some of the Canadian terms are very different depending on which Province you are from, the example I will give is in the Province of Ontario Electricity is Hydro Electricity but in Nova Scotia where I reside electricity is referred to as Power. I do not know how the other Provinces refer to Electric Power. I know that in Ontario much of the power comes from Niagara Falls, thus Hydro Electricity. We also have different accents when speaking depending on your Province. In mainland Nova Scotia the accents are much different to the accents you will hear in Cape Breton Island.
I'm from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. My answers: 1. Mostly zee, sometimes zed. I use zed when I'm spelling out something so it's not confused with D or B 2. Bill 3. Sneakers 4. Couch 5. 1 dollar 🤷🏽 we'd say single if referring to the bill itself and not the amount ("You have any singles?"). 6. Soft drink is seen as most proper...see-drink or swee-drink (from "sweet drink" but no-one says sweet drink) is a dialectal form (idk the proper term to use there) 7. One kilometer. Also use 1k or 5k for running events etc. 8. Bachelor/bachelorette party 9. Eh (pronounced 'eh' as in 'egg') or ent (same soft e) which probably comes from innit since we were a British colony 10. Cigarettes 11. Pennacool (from "penny cool" cuz they used to cost a penny). We use to have a brand called Freezies. A lolly is the kind with the stick. 12. Milk? 🤷🏽 13. Car park (or multi storey car park but nobody says all those extra words for no reason😂) or parkade rarely 14. Bathroom, washroom, restroom, or toilet interchangeably. I've only ever heard water closet from old people. 15. Fire station 16. Electricity or current. When power goes out - "current gone" 17. Whole wheat bread 18. Napkin 19. Because of the packaging I would say 24 pack. We have actual, reusable hard plastic cases that bottled beer comes in but this kind in the cans would be a 24 pack, although I've only ever seen 6 packs sold like that.
11:11 whaaaat? 😮 I'm Canadian and those have always been "freezies" to me. Just thinking about them fills me with nostalgia. Every summer here growing up, us kids would take a break from playing outside in the heat and go inside for a bit to have some freezies. I actually had no idea Brits and Americans call them popsicles. In Canada, the word "popsicle" only refers to a frozen flavoured and sugary treat with a stick in it. Hence the term "popsicle sticks". But freezies don't have sticks in them, they're literally just plastic tubes filled with sweet, frozen, artificially flavoured and coloured syrup 🤣🤣
I'm from North Yorkshire here in the UK and we would refer to the ones with wooden sticks as Ice Lollies and the ones just in plastic without sticks as Ice Pops. Mr Freeze was the popular brand sold in the local shop when I was young, great days!
I'm from New York, and I wouldn't call them popsicles unless they were on a stick. However, you can call either one an ice pop. You might also hear the one without a stick referred to as a freezer pop or push-up pop, although there is another kind of push-up pop which is on a stick.
@@rebeccasimantov5476 of course it is... Just like centre for example and not center. She’s very Americanised... she even said “Skedual” for Schedule... never heard it here. That’s a no no...
I discovered Rachel's channel two days ago and I'm really happy to see this video! Watching the native speakers from the different accents, countries, etc. is really helpful! Thank you for this great video!
Because American entertainment is so popular, I feel that every ESL (including myself) is more familiar with AmE. However I am from HK and I'm now living in the UK so I have to remind myself to use BrE though it's very difficult since I keep mixing them up.
I beg to differ on Rachel’s “electricity” reference. In the US we generally refer to electricity as “power.” For example: power bill, power lines, power outage, power’s on/off, and etc. That’s not to say there aren’t regional differences.
I was born & raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦 When I was little we also said Kilos & kilo-meter(pronounced kee-lows & kee-low mee-ter), now it's kilometer (kill-lohm-iter) or K
If anyone in the United States ever want to hear a perfect Canadian accent. Go to Minnesota. Seriously! They have a stronger Canadian Accent than most Canadians. LOL
I'm from Manitoba and grew up in a predominantly Mennonite community. My grandmother was born in 1920 and usually called it a serviette. I know she used the term for disposable napkins but I don't know if she also used it for cloth.
Hey Lucy, just for the record, I have never known Canadians to use the word "a-boot"! In my 64 years it has always been "a-bout". Just had to get it out there. Thanks.
It's funny because in my old job I covered all of Canada (phone and in person) for years and every Canadian says they don't say "aboot"....but ya kinda do. lol. Granted, "aboot" is exaggerated, for sure, but 99% of Canadians say "out" and "about" differently than Americans. Nah, but to be honest, you pronounce it more how it's actually spelled than us (giving respect to the 'u') while we pronounce it more like "abowt." So there you go. Some ammo against us ;)
Here in Brazil, some milks comes in bags as well. They're called "leite de saquinho" (bagged milk), and have different processes to warm it up, conserving some bacteria, like Lactobacillos in it's composition. The standard milk, called "leite de caixinha" (milk in a box, or boxed milk) have zero bacteria in it, increasing it's longevity but also turning it less wealthy
Hi Lucy!! My son and I, we love your videos! We have such a good time watching your videos, and it was a very pleasant surprise that you had our other favorite teacher "Bob the Canadian" we love him as well! We were delighted by his presence. What a perfect combo you both!!!! ❤ You outdone yourself this time. Thank you!
I’m a Jamaican now living in Canada. I grew up saying ZED but now say Zee. I remember when Jamaica switched to the metric system in the 80s. So even though we use metric here in Canada, I understand measurements better in imperial so I’m always converting to get a better image in my mind.
I'm surprised Rachel didn't mention "soft drink" as another name for "soda" and "pop". I usually say "soda", but in the southern US, lots of folks either call it by its proper name or say "soft drink".
I was going to say the same thing about "soft drinks". In some places in the U.S., people will use "Coke" when they mean sodas/soft drinks, like how people use "Kleenex" for "tissue" or "Pampers" for "diapers".
In regards to "K", as a Canadian, I use "clicks" for distance; but I'll also use it for running if running one of the set racing distances (i.e. 5K or 10K). I also use "K", however, for money denominations in thousands. For example, "That house just sold for 730k). So I use "K" to denote units of 1,000.
Growing up I didn’t exactly know which English we were taught at school. I only realized after coming to the US that my previous school taught British English (sans the accent lol). I learned to replace my vocabs from rubber to eraser, trousers to pants, rubbish to trash… and spell certain words differently like color instead of colour. I was also shocked to learn the American way of reading time was a lot simpler than the British, such as instead of half past four, it’s just four-thirty or instead of five past six, it’s six-oh-five (btw, the number 0 is usually read as oh, such as when referring to room numbers you would say room three-oh-four to refer to room 304). The American way of reading time was a relief for me since I sucked at the British way back then. But I love British accent while still appreciating the simplicity of American English and hopefully I’ll learn more about Canadian English.
The time thing is younger vs older people. Older Americans tend to say things like half past, which is incredibly annoying to those of us who grew up with digital clocks - so if you say something like quarter till, you're going to get an "ok, boomer" look even if they don't say it out loud. And yes, "ok, boomer" is appropriate here, us 50+ gen X'ers want the actual time, not the analog approximation.
The use of clicks was popularized in the Vietnam War. One speculation for the source of this was the clicks on the taxi meters measured kilometers which the GIs weren’t used to. GIs took taxis everywhere when off duty in Saigon.
I generally only here older people in Ontario Canada refer to kms as Clicks. And I mean older then I, 50. We generally say kilometres or miles, always meaning kilometres of course. Or in slang, we might say, “Oh it’s about 5 beers”
Yes but the "standard" form of American-English is the accent everyone aspires to. Certain jobs will turn you down (reporting/journalism, some online teaching jobs, other communication jobs, and more) if you don't speak with this "proper" American accent. So just because everyone speaks differently, I think the point here is to establish what's most widely acceptable as "correct". That said, slang is highly region-specific though and there isn't any "correct" slang IMO.
I liked how Rachel established which parts of the US she lived in, and said "I would call that". Bob's answers were pretty regional, but he always said "in Canada we'd call that". Must be hard to get consistency when filming this stuff completely separate though. Also, for Lucy's wish of hearing a funny "about", Bob's from the wrong part of the country for that!
Yeah, I'm Canadian and I would definitely say "sneakers", not "runners" or even "running shoes". Things vary from region to region. It's a big place, lol.
Agreed! I felt like a lot of Bob's examples were very Ontarian. I am sure people in the England or the US felt similar things about the other examples given.
In my area people often refer to electricity as "lights". If someone says "the lights went out", it means there was an electrical outage. A "light bill" is the same as an electric bill. A "light pole" is the same as a utility pole.
Yep, lots of interchangeable words here. Light bill, power bill, electric bill. electric lines & power lines but never light lines. Light pole, electric pole, but for myself I've never heard power pole. Yet the place that makes the electricity seems most often called the power station in my neck of the woods.
@@wasgreg ‘Power pole’ is standard for lower mainland (BC) GWN. Interchangeable with ‘telephone pole’. As when “Gordie wrapped his Pontiac around a (choice between ‘power’ pole, or ‘telephone’ pole), eh. Lotus Land doesn’t make a distinction unless necessary. BTW - Gordie’s better half was pissed right off at him, eh!
I refer to the pole as a light pole, but the lines as power lines. I pay a light bill or an electric bill, but the power went out during the storm. But if describing an accident, the fool wrapped his car around a telephone pole. Weird. Never really thought about that weirdness before, either.
@@vijabe Crazy, isn’t it? Yet, somehow it all works, for the most part. Don’t get started on the bag/sack/poke issue. I’ve known any number of actual English people that still can’t decipher the Yorkshire accent.
I'm also Canadian(from Newfoundland), we use most of the same terms as Bob. I think it's more a generational thing though. My mother would use serviette, but I just call them napkins. Hydro can be used but for more common to hear power or electricity. Never ever heard of brown bread though.
Native Québécois here, we use serviette as a french word (it probably is, I don’t think it sounds very English) and where I live, “brown bread” is commonly used in french, but we also have whole wheat bread as an alternative. It’s funny how both languages interchange in different places.
It’s also quite strange how right next to Newfoundland, in Côte-Nord, we never call electricity “hydro”. We use that word to talk about Hydro-Québec , which owns the hydroelectric dams (mostly when you’re mad about the power running out, coupled with a bunch of semi-religious slurs). We’d be more inclined to use “courant”, which would translate to power or flow.
I believe it's also refered to as molasses bread. As for Hydro I think it depends on what province you live in or grew up in. BC's power company is BC Hydro so it just gets shortened to hydro. Where as in Nova Scotia it's Nova Scotia Power so it would be weird to call it "Hydro".
In South Central Ontario Canada we can buy skim, 1%, 2% (fat) or homo milk in 4 liter amounts which is divided in to 3 plastic bags we put in a pitcher meant to hold a milk bag to make it easier to pour after one little corner is cut off thank you very much
I think Bob needs to explain that he speaks more for Ontario than he does for Canada, I've lived on both sides of the country and rarely hear some of his stated choice words. Other than that, great video.
No no, we DO NOT have a bird called the looney in Canada. The bird is called a Loon! Also the name of the coin is spelled loonie, NOT looney! Again not a tooney, but a toonie.
@@Marconi121 Bob called the bird the "Loonie". And what is it with the Stag and Doe? We also have bachelor and bachelorette parties in Canada. A Stag and Doe is a money raising event for the bride and groom.
@@AcidFlash123 And I'm well aware of that. 😐😐 I'm English anyway so what's your point.?? Parties before you get married in England can include a gift such as cash but generally it's a distasteful way to give a gift especially if the person has invited you to their wedding. Stag or Doe is just a name for a bachelor party that harks back to our very English tradition of dear hunting where if you watch dears through your rifle they chase each other in a flirtatious manner. Stags being very promiscuous in pursuit and does giving a glassy eyed stare to flirt back, it's Also the reason why the phrase "Doe eyed stare" means someone fancies you.
@@Marconi121 Growing up in Montreal I never heard of a Stag and Doe party. The fiancés had separate parties. The guy’s friends would throw him a stag party or bachelor party, the former with a more bawdy connotation. Lots of alcohol were part of either. Women had bridal showers with gifts given to her.
Wow, you got really aggressive over something incredibly inconsequential. I think maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities my friend. If you put this much passion into arguing for things that actually mattered, you might actually make a difference in this world.
Canada is a large country with many distinct regions, so when Bob says "In Canada we say..." he is actually speaking Torontonian. For example, in Canada we call bathrooms: bathrooms, restrooms, washrooms, or toilets, depending where we live. But people from Toronto tend to think all Canadians speak the same way - just like they do in Toronto. Not so!
Why did you have to go there. I certainly didn't think he was speaking for the entire Canada. A reasonable person would know that he said it how HE knows it. Thinking you have to clear that up with viewers is condescending.
I’m from Birmingham in the West Midlands, and from this video I’ve found as many differences between what I say and Lucy’s as I have with the North Americans.
I just love Bob’s lessons. I watch them pretty much every day. I sometimes watch Rachel’s, when I want to improve some piece of pronunciation. Alessandro 🇧🇷
I'm Canadian, but my family used "Fizzy Drinks" and "Pop" interchangeably, "Nappies", and some other things that I didn't realise were typically British until I was much older.
Our family called all of them Coke ! So the conversation went Hey, do you want a Coke . Answer yeah, sure. Ok What kind ? Oh get me an Orange !! This drove outsiders crazy!
@@geraldinehamilton2818 I have never heard them called ginger in northern or north eastern Scotland. Fizzy juice or just the name of the drink in question like coke, cola, lemonade etc,.
On the west coast of Canada, it’s not “eh?” It’s “hey?” I picked up the habit when I was in grad school there and more than a decade later I still find myself sometimes putting “hey?” at the end of a question sentence. Also another option for a question marker in the US, in addition to “right?” would be “y’know?”
The stereotype "eh" makes me cringe so hard!! I don't use it, but I do say "huh" and "right" often ..when I watch British shows, they use "eh" so often, and it doesn't bother me. It only bothers me when Americans use it in a mocking way.
We have relatives in Saskatchewan and Alberta and it is always eh. Ditto friends in Victoria who use it as well. Interestingly, my father-who was born and raised in Toronto- could not stand the “eh” but could never quite wean himself from it…and it would creep in every now and then. I wonder if you went to grad school at UBC. I could see Vancouver being eh averse and substituting hey.
@@adamjessup6878I I admittedly catch myself saying eh sometimes but its usually hey huh or right? Its just a habit and if you pay attention you can pretty easily break it. Certain questions can easily roll the eh out... like "that fkn sucks eh!?" is one that gets me alot. I think it depends what word comes before the hey .. I also grew up in the west and I have to agree, we use eh ALOT and I think most of us barely notice it. The australians have butchered and shortened almost every word and everyone mostly likes it but us canadians shorten only one word....hey to eh, and now we will never live it down.. go figure!!
I'm Scottish, so i decided to answer too. Zed Bill (a check is something you pay with, you wrtie a check, lol) Trainers Couch A quid Ginger 1k, aye (I hear click in military/war films) Hen night and stag night No sure what words i use a lot as tags Fags Icepole (no stick, so not a lolly) Full fat milk Multi story car park Toilet Fire station Electricity (leccy) Broon breed Napkin
I’m a French Canadian whose comfortably bilingual, and some of these Canadian ones I had no idea ! Guess I’m learning something about my own country here!
Hey well like he said, big ass country. Ontarian here, we totally put maple on snow at sugar hacks for the maple popsicles in the winter. I know the French do as well since we share the maple forests. Other Canadians don't know about the sugar shacks/cabane à sucre
As a Minnesotan I loved this. A very common stereotype/joke we make around here is that we're the Canadians of America. I like calling our state "Canadia." We definitely lean more American with the words themselves, however, I felt like how the Canadian and our dialect have more in common than the American. Which is funny. Also, it's a pretty even split between bagged and galloned milk
Any native or good at english speaker ? I will feel so happy to make conversations with them to improve my speaking skill. It will be pleasure for me .
I would like to thank you to all these participants for this. As you know some of us do not know why this word spells different in american english, why this spells in british or why this in canadian english.But watching this video we can clear our doubt. I really appreciate all you guys. Thanks a lot. 👍
It definitely isn't just an Alberta thing. I have friends and family ranging from Atlantic Canada to B.C. who would call it power. Hydro really is a regional term, presumably because the local utility provider in the area has the word Hydro in the name. i.e. Hydro-Québec, Ontario Hydro or Manitoba Hydro
When I saw the "kilometre" under the US (Rachel) and "kilometer" under Lucy I thought these were transposed. Usually, in my experience its the UK English that uses "re" at the end of their words, such as "theatre" and "metre." The US spelling would be kilometer, meter, and theater. Of course, in our long distance running races in the USA we have "5K" runs and "10K" runs, etc.
As a Canadian, I spell the words your way. When I'm feeling especially Canadian, I will spell words like color, flavor, and honor with the ending -our. And I always spell check as cheque.
The UK use the "re" Because of influence of french due to historical events as the aristocrat saw french as a fancy and noble language And originally it was a language of noble ... until the king of that time maked it compulsory to be teach and learn to the commons The U.S rejected that french influence so that's why Americans has pronunciation difficulties with french origin words
I am a Canadian living in the Southern US with my US Southern husband for 52 years. It took him a long time to get me comfortable saying 'Gaawddaamitt' instead of 'giddimit'
It's similar in the UK. The Metric system is used in the school systems, etc. But most parents teach their children the Imperial system as it's traditional. So both get used.
I thought it had a military root to it. One of my uncles served and he was the only person I know who said klicks. Although it kinda rubbed of on me. Kind of sounds cool. Hahaha
@@paulmackay7265 Yeah, it's just easier for one country, the US, to adopt the standard used by pretty much the rest of the world that we work with in joint operations versus trying to convert everything on the fly. So officially they will range distances in meters and kilometers for everything from rifle and artillery fire and distances traveled and so on and so forth. I don't know if we did it before Vietnam, but definitely back then and going forward.
Thanks for sharing different names to many objects in common. I love to watch my wonderful teacher Rachel and teacher Bob with you sharing this topic. Congratulations.
I think some of the words commonly used in the US have also changed over the years. My mother used to use settee but eventually started using sofa. I use couch. I'm sure these various versions confuse anyone learning English. The complication caused by adding slang or more specific regional slang or usage (or understanding it) must be an added level of complexity that must be very frustrating. This was a very interesting video.
That was a fun video! I am an American. My girlfriend is Canadian. We had some "fun" with words and pronunciation during my first stay in Canada many years ago. We both swear that it is the other one who has the accent.
Well done. Very interesting and enjoyable. I am a U. S. Midwesterner and I would use every word the American lady used except I would call the soft drink “ pop” not soda.
In central Massachusetts in the US soda is also called tonic, not to be confused with tonic water, which goes in my gin & tonic. A parking garage is a building where you park cars. A parking lot is an open air lot designated for parking cars. A popsicle comes on a stick and a freeze pop does not. Low e hearing the differences in our English languages. Nice to see some of my favorite English Language vloggers collaborate’n Great job!!
I live in central mass and have never once heard any of these. Bubbler, however, that one was very confusing once I first moved here from the Midwest. Bubbler (water fountain, drinking fountain) is pure Worcester.
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What is the exact meaning of " With a warm and dry hands"
Please explain...
16:47 Sorry I've got a question. Could you tell me can I call it tissues as well? =)
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amazing
This was so much fun! Thanks Lucy for inviting me to participate in this awesome English lesson!
Thank you so much for your time Bob! It was awesome to have you! I can't wait for part two :)
@@EnglishwithLucy I love you ALL 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
@@EnglishwithLucy love you!:)🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
@@EnglishwithLucy Yes! Milk does come in bags in my part of Canada.
Mr. Bob did a great job, eh? 😎🇨🇦🍁
Actually, in Canada, though distance is officially measured in kilometers, we more often give distances in time (Montreal is five hours from Toronto, rather than Montreal is 540 kilometers from Toronto).
I live in the US just a few hours south of Canada and I also measure in time, as evidenced by how I explained my proximity to Canada just now. xD
This.
Same here in little PEI Canada it's always time-based never kilometers. And more often on top of that you'd get "turn right at the blue house" but the blue house was torn down 20 years ago everyone just knows where it used to be. It's rare that you'll never get told more than 1.5 hours since that's the farthest away from the capital city each way unless it's some place off island.
Agreed, we state driving distances in time.
Haha, same in Maine.
I love how the Canadian guy had a full story for every word and also offered up the US equivalent lol
I know , eh?
It's what we Canadians always do -- we give that extra little explanation, so the 'merikins can keep up with us. :)
I wish he talked about how we use minutes for distance. I’ll say it’s 30 minutes from here rather than an actual distance
Thats not common? And don’t you also use timmies as a landmark
He has to make up for the huge enthusiasm from the American
Bob was speaking for the Mid or Eastern parts of Canada. British Columbia in the west, have a few different names for some of those articles. ❤🇨🇦
Same for us in the far east. Never heard of calling it hydro before, and there were a couple of others that stood out. Canada’s a big country
Yeah, it's different in Saskatchewan, too. I lived in ON for 3 years in my early 20s and some things took some getting used to.
Quebecer here…. Soft drink for me, not soda or pop.
1km…. We also saw K for running/walking distance, I ran a 5K. 1 walked around 2K.
We never say the Ay at the end to ask à question, I use right but probably from watching TV.
Restroom, washroom or toilet for me.toilet might be the French influence.
I’m from Ottawa, we call napkins serviettes! & washrooms also restrooms
Bobs an Ontarian,not a Canadian ,he doesn't speak for all of canada
I love how Bob smiles everytime he's done speaking.
(Edited:Wow so many likes thank you guys)
Me too, greatest and funiest to me :D
Ya, but also hurt
Canada is not cool
I need to rewatch lol
He’s a cutie 🥰
I love Bob. He really is the epitome of Canadian politeness
Typical canadian. Unassuming and friendly.
@@vincentlefebvre9255 Yes, I was really struck by his very pleasant manner. He’s a great communicator too - crystal clear.
@@philipmulville8218 That's why he will do well with his RUclips channel, "English with Bob, the Canadian."
the american seems very passive aggresive i find
@@notawamen2311 As a Canadian I can find Americans rude but it's important to judge their behaviour against their fellow Americans. Her behaviour seems normal to me when I consider that. We just have different social customs.
In my region of the US, we call the "popsicles" that come in bags "freeze pops" or "freezer pops." To qualify as a popsicle, it has to have a stick.
We call them otter pops from the most popular brand, even when it's a different brand that we've purchased.
Same here in the midwest, or sometimes we call them "cool pops" which is technically a brand name.
Cool pops here in Florida
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I live in FL and i’ve never heard anything but popsicle! I didn’t know anyone anywhere called them cool pops haha
@@SM-yz4hi typically is popsicle, ice pop(sicle), or freezer pop(sicle) in my neck of the woods.
Depending on the context electricity is interchangeable with "power" and most people where I live many just call soda "Coke" but I use soda or soft drink.
7:21 In Canada, we also determine the distance between two cities by saying the time it takes to travel from one to the other.
That is my experience too. I've never heard anyone use clicks.
Americans do that too. "I'm four hours from New York City" for example. Really, there is very little difference between Canadian and American English, I've never in my life heard someone speak and realized they were from Canada (unless it was Quebec.)
@@awfan221We do in NS.
Most definitely. We also still use miles (rather than kilometres) - especially on the prairies where farmers haven’t switched over to the metric system
Totally 😂!
As a Canadian, the only time I’ve ever heard someone say serviette is if they were speaking in French. I’ve always heard napkin in English. I live in Northern Ontario for reference.
I lived southern Ontario and now in Alberta and same, just napkin.
Yep
Yep - I am from Ontario and I haven't heard serviette used very often and I think it was only when I was little.
@@maggies88 Im from northern ontario and we mostly call them serviette
@@1WithTheDark I've been in London, Toronto, Sarnia and out in Vancouver. It's both.
Bob is from Southern Ontario. All of Bob's sayings were Ontario-centric (including his southern ontario accent).
yep, a case of beer is 12 in sask where I grew up.
definitely say napkin too, nobody says 'pass me a serviette', silly Bob!
In BC, most people I know call a case of beer a "flat." If it's 0.5L ones, usually it's called "a flat of tall boys." Never heard anybody use serviette, only napkin.
@@zivan56 I’ve always lived in BC and have never heard the term “flat”, but I definitely agree on the napkin comment
@@austink-v8261 interesting, what would you say? I just googled "flat of beer" and multiple breweries and website in Vancouver popped up. Maybe it's a Vancouver thing only, but I'm sure I've heard it used in the interior as well.
Loving how Rachel just answers and Bob leaves you wanting a full conversation....
Seems to me there’s a part of that that’s representative of US and Canadian culture (and language/communication) in itself
@@ashleyargall8791 yeah cause canadians have to go on and on about how they aren't american. in america we never give a thought about canada. it doesn't matter to us at all. most of us have never been to that icebox and have no interest in it. especially here in the southern US.
That's the Canadian personality trait :)
@@mth1368 at least we can find both countries on the map.
When Canada was switching to the metric system they showed us a way to convert from km to miles which is handy for converting to time. For example, drop the right-most digit (which is usually a zero) and multiply the rest by 6. So 100 km becomes 10 multiplied by 6 which equals 60 miles or 60 minutes.
Milk in bags is totally a thing in Canada, but it's regional. You'll see it in Ontario, New Brunswick, I think Nova Scotia, PEI, and parts of Quebec, as well. It's not sold in bags in Newfoundland and Labrador, and western Canada, nor (I think) the territories.
I live in Alberta and lived here when we used to get it in bags, but after they went away, I was surprised to find bagged milk out in BC at the Save On. I had to go buy the milk bag container just for reminiscing.
You should also have a western canadian. We have different words and different references.
I remember as a kid getting milk in bags but don’t recall seeing it at all past the 80’s
Can confirm bagged milk in NS!
@@DHogan67 hmmm I Dident know savs ons have bagged milks all the ones near me have none
I like how Bob tries to explain or give contexts to his answers.
I do too - the american gal could have been a little chattier.
I though the American woman came across as a bit rude , she threw a bit of shade towards bob regarding the cig comment , to me it shows there typical rude nature .
I'm from the US and we just go straight to the point 🙄
yeah Bob is the best teacher for me
@@JM-ig4ed maybe she doesn’t want to deal with you annoying foreigners
Canadian here. Loved this video. Just one slight correction: the bird on the back of the one dollar coin is a loon, and thus extended to become a loonie.
There was a very brief period where people were trying to push the use of 'doubloonie' for the two dollar coin, but it never caught on.
@@vickiekostecki I actually like that! Unfortunately, I did not hear that option at the time the toonie came out. Also, until a few years back, in my mind I always spelled it, ‘twoonie’, (for the number two).
@@mikea.3972 I think you still see twoonie from time to time.
The two-dollar coin features the image of a polar bear on the reverse; there was a very brief period of time when people toyed with the idea of calling it the "Bear Buck."
@@willmfrank Ha ha! I haven’t heard that one before. I can see why it didn’t catch on though.
Bob is such a warm person .
Interesting. Half of the stuff Bob says is so different than what I'm used to hear for almost 3 decades living here.
He has a very southern Ontario bias
IK SAME
IKR???
@@douvin oi eh ?
@@douvin as a southern ontarian (Toronto suburbs) i agree that i say a lot of things differently than him. sometimes it was moreso that people i know dont use the word he mentions, but i know that it is used here. However there were a lot (like serviette, wtf??) that we definitely dont say :P also parkade.....
As a French-Canadian that only spoke fluent English around age 15-16 (when I started college at McGill), then lived in the UK for year, then moved to the US... My English is a serious hodge-podge of miscellaneous words and expressions! So I really enjoyed this video! Thanks Lucy, love your charm & wit!
you started college at 15-16 ???
@@Someone89710 In Quebec, you go to grade 11 in high school and then, CEGEP, but once upon a time, you started university after grade 11. In NL, it was the same thing--you went to university after grade 11.
In my experience on Canada’s west coast, people tend to say “bathroom” in a private residence, but “washroom” if it’s in a public place.
I've experienced that a few times too. Washroom is usually used in public places whereas bathroom is sometimes used when at someone's home.
Yeah I’ve noticed that too
Moved from Ontario to BC, definitely noticed this.
Same in the east
That's also what I say and I'm from Quebec. It's all about context!
It is sooo interesting how we, as Afrikaans mother tounge speakerss in South Africa, learned a complete mixture of British and American English vocab at school.
Elon Musk talks like a native born Yank, he's also very frugal with his words-like most Yanks. We like him, I think we'll keep him!
Bob the Canadian is a rockstar! 🇨🇦
😂👍
😂😂 Fact
Yeah, he's so cool! I love him
No doubt 👍
And she doesn’t know how to spell. “Kilometer”?? You guys spell it like that. It’s obviously kilometre
I'm a native Spanish speaker and I lived in England for twelve years. Then I moved to the US and sometimes it felt like learning a new language. Some people would correct my pronunciation sometimes and I often thought I had mispronounced the word because English is not my first language, but after double checking the pronunciation in a dictionary, I would realise that I had pronounced it with an English accent (herb, nauseous, water, etc)
Hi Moni, I'm learning all the uses of would because I'm messing up with this word sometimes though I've seen Lucy videos and other videos explaining when we should use this word so I have some questions about what you wrote:
1) When you wrote "Some people would correct my pronunciation" did you use would here because you meant a typical behavior or willingness in the past?.
2) When you wrote "I would realise" why did you use "I would" instead of "I realised"?
Thanks in advance to you or whoever who is willing to answer these doubts!
@@OscarMartinez-nt6zn When I say "I would realise" it's like when we use the imperfect tense in Spanish.
Ha ha! I’m glad you answered that. I instinctively knew the “would + verb” was correct, but I couldn’t explain other than exactly how Oscar put it. Something you customarily did in the past, but now you don’t. It’s because in English you can use the simple past for both preterit and imperfect. That’s what makes Spanish tough for an English speaker. Is this ongoing in the past or a one time occurrence (over and done)? Donde estabas? (Estaba en casa. Estuve enferma.) Estar and ser gets most English speakers every time!
Uk English is definitely something you don’t want to sound like when coming to America lol
@@monidefi2680 Wuaow I handn't came here for a while, thanks for your answer! it's a bit clearer for me now
As an English teacher, and as a vocabulary lover, I really appreciate when native English speakers make videos on this topic. Thank you.
Yes and no. Often when someone from England (a pom) comes and visits Australia, they feel its their role to 'correct' us with various pronunciations and words. I take great pride in how our language has evolved.
I’m American, and we also say ‘parking structure’ if it’s multiple levels. Parking lot denotes a flat, open space but it is interchangeable with structure.
I saw Bob the Canadian I clicked. Love his good vibe and energy. =)
Pode crer o canal dele é massa de mais!!!
Same here.
Same bro, bob is a legend
same !!! me and my mom love watching Bob’s video to learn English. He’s a great teacher
Same
I would enjoy seeing these 3 along side Australian, Kiwi and South African English for comparison of all 6 at once.
Yes omgoodness thank you I had the same thought 😇
Yes please! 🥝🙂💗
And Irish, Welsh and Scottish? Aren't they worthy or what?
Im a kiwi our language is not like South Africa, Australia, British yes.
Ooo! That’s a good idea 😁👍 I hope Lucy see’s this 🙌
I'm Canadian, but I tend to use a mix of all three versions of English. Some Canadian words Bob mentions, I've never heard of like the "stag and doe" or "jack and jill". Very interesting...
Oh you’re just like me I mean I was raised in Canada But the area I was raising had so much English people I actually talk to the in the accent but sometimes
Depends where you grow up, for most of it. Bob's from Eastern Canada, probably Ontario; he used distance to Niagra Falls as a reference. I grew up in Alberta and apparently have more in common with the US lady's colloquialisms. 😂
One thing that is almost exclusive to the province of Manitoba is the social, where a large party is held to raise money for a certain cause like a charity or a wedding. It’s similar to a mixer on US college campuses.
Wow, this is so interesting for me, cuz I learned English as my second language, and I was always stressed that I will use some British word in the US or American in Canada and people would think I'm weird lol.
But I guess you guys don't care much and do it yourselves
cuz ur single or no friends cuz no one invited you in a stag and doe
In the American Midwest, a couch or sofa is often called a 'davenport,' particularly in Iowa and Nebraska.
Being a western Canadian I can tell that Bob is somewhere from eastern Canada. In the west we tend to have more American speech influence and less French influence. For example, I rarely ever hear the word serviette. It is always a napkin. I also know from experience that Canadians on the east coast have a large number of variations on their speech that differ from anywhere else in Canada. East coast dialect is where a number of Canadian stereotypes originate from.
I'm from eastern Canada and most of these I don't use
yeah, there was a lot of stuff that he said Canadians say, that at least in western Canada, Ive never heard someone say. I never use "hydro" for power, I use "bathroom", not "washroom", I use "zee", not "zed", I use milk cartons, not milk bags, etc.
@@TotallyNotACanadianSpy I've also never heard two four in Western Canada. It would be a case or a flat of beer.
I was thinking that as well or perhaps the interior. I've lived in Vancouver my whole life(30 years) and just wanted to share my personal experience. I use zee. I use sneakers but in a running context, sometimes I use runners or running shoes. I don't usually say loonie/toonie unless I'm asked what type of coin I'm holding, I just say a buck or two bucks. I use pop and very rarely hear soda. Never heard anyone use clicks except in American military movies. First time hearing jack and jill/stag and doe, I've only heard of bachelor/bachelorette party. I've only heard of fire station, I've never heard of fire hall. I say electricity but understand hydro, I very rarely hear someone refer to it as hydro and it would be the older generation that would say it. Never heard of serviette, I would say napkin. For cigarettes, cigarettes is the more formal form to me, generally I hear smokes, i.e. can I get a pack of smokes, can I bum a smoke. Never heard of two four, I would say a pack/case of beer or if I want to be specific, a 12 or 24 pack. Also, I never say eh and I don't hear it very often.
My guess would be that he's from Ontario. On the east coast, we're much more likely to use the English versions than what he is using. No one would say hydro. It's power.
American here, originally from Long Island, New York.
I did some research into why we pronounce the letter Z as "zee," rather than "zed" and where the pronunciation originated. Believe it or not, we actually inherited it from England.
At one point in history, "zee" was used as an alternative pronunciation for the letter Z in England. When the English first colonized what is now the United States, the alternative pronunciation made its way over to the colonies, so for a long time, both "zed" and "zee" were used in the U.S., depending on what area a person was from, or if the person inherited the pronunciation from their parents.
"Zed" began to fall out of use in the U.S. when Noah Webster, an American lexicographer, wrote "An American Dictionary of the English Language." In it, he listed the correct pronunciation for the letter Z as "zee." In addition, American music publisher Charles Bradlee, who wrote the A.B.C. (alphabet) song, chose the pronunciation of "zee" because it rhymed with the rest of the song.
Q-R-S
T-U "VEE"
W-X
Y and "ZEE"
These things helped to popularize "zee" to the point that it just became the proper way to pronounce the letter Z in the U.S. and what was taught in every school. There's your history lesson for the day. Now the question remains, why did "zee" fall out of use in British English?
The falling out of Zed is more than likely attritubed to American media/entertainment and influence over the world plus Britain has been a historical melting pot of cultures and languages. From the first peoples to the Brittonic and Gaelic Celts; the Romans; the Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Danes; the Vikings; and then modern immigration, I think British Isles has had one of the most interesting evolution of languages and dialects
@@PapaSmurf337 All of that evolution happened before America existed! The Celts (and most of the rest) didn't even speak English! What's your point as it makes no sense regards language evolution? The main evolution change is the US colonies homogenising different English accents into the US variant.
@@aldozilli1293 I never said the historical Celts spoke English.
Do you misinterpret things often? I said American Media has a major influence on the world and that the British Isles have been a historical melting pot for various peoples, do you need everything to be spelled out?
@@aldozilli1293 Why such a harsh response? It doesn't take a lot to have a civil discourse.
@@dianad1968 sorry I was dropped on my head when I was younger
I was born in Toronto and lived there till I was 13, my mother is from London, England and I’ve lived in the southern USA for the past 14 years. This whole video about made me pass out trying to figure out why every single thing you guys said sounded correct 😂
I was born in Saskatchewan, with a mother who came here from the Southern US (North Carolina), and although I never lived in England, I spent enough time there, so I think I know what you mean.
Depending on the area in Canada the names can be different. I'm in western Canada and we use the term napkin not serviette. We also measure distance in time "Calgary in a half hour from here" as opposed to how many kms or "clicks". We also use the word "bathroom" or washroom. And to answer your question about our milk coming in bags, that's an eastern Canada thing too. I remember when the bags initially came to western Canada there was a lot of backlash so in W Canada we only get our milk in cartons or jugs. Great video :)
I am Canadian born and raised (Ontario). I have now lived over half my life in various parts of the US, both North and South and have traveled East and West. I believe Bob's accent/vocabulary is typical of Ontario. One of my sisters has spent the majority of her adult life in northern Newfoundland. I could not understand my nephews over the telephone LOL. Their accent, vocabulary and idioms were very regional.
So there can be some very distinct differences in the English language in Canada as you see in the US.
Yes. Bob sounds like he's from Southern Ontario. I was born and raised in Ottawa. Many of Bob's terms I've either never heard of, or maybe rarely heard in some instances..
Very Eastern Canada accent for me (born and bred in Western Canada). Also have heard the Newfies before and THAT is an accent! XD
No question about it, Newfoundland has a distinct accent, some unique words and phrases. Like many places the degree to which you hear those differences varies, usually being more pronounced as you get away from the city.
All I remember my first time talking to a person from NFLD is that I thought she was speaking another language. Also, their tempo is insanely fast. I LOVE their accent, and loved visiting the east coast.
@@cate5849 I'm from Alberta, but that would be my guess as well.
I love the fact that we in Canada use British spelling which can actually save money. For example, in my province of New Brunswick ( the one officially bilingual one), we use the British spelling of "centre" which is also the French spelling so rather than make 2 signs for "City Center" and then "Centre Ville" we simply put "City Centre Ville". Saves space and money.
I didn't know that.
We only use British spelling for some things. Yes, we use all those extra "u"s that the Americans don't. But we have tires, not tyres, using one example. What I find (born in NB but living in western Canada for the past 42 years), is that we seem to be a blend of the two systems. We carry much of our British heritage, but also a mixture of language we've picked up from our neighbour to the south.
@@cdpond When I used to write papers and used the British spelling for some words, they were always marked as wrong. Mostly it was for theatre because we have to write theater. Bummed me out because I enjoyed the other spellings similarly, I enjoy adding other words to my speaking to make it interesting and make sentences pop.
@@ameliab7245 My 6th grade English teacher (in Texas) wrote both theatre and theater on the board. She told us to pick one and stick to it. She said it did not matter which one we used as long as we were consistent. I have been writing theatre ever since.
@@cdpond Read Bill Bryson’s ‘The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way’. Great read.
I agree with many of the comments made about Bob’s english, that he’s using very specific southern Ontario terms and accent. I’m from Saskatchewan and I’ve never used terms like “hydro” “serviette” or “two four.”
BC here. Agree that Ontario doesn’t speak for Canada! Serviette is not common here, napkin is. We refer to Hydro as the provider as the main power provider is BCHydro. “Did you get your Hydro bill?”, but we call electricity ‘power’, as in “Hey - is your power out?” If you said your hydro was out, we’d know you were an Ontario spy and we’d deport you to Alberta as punishment.
I’m from Ontario and I don’t even know some of these, I think it’s just Bob
Kameron; Hahaaah! Good one!
@@Kevin-cc7eq Yep, never heard of a serviette.
@@kameronb Don't hurt me!
the spelling in kilometre and kilometer also different between Canada and US, also center vs centre
This is eastern Canada, there is a lot of variation when you head west, lots of terms like hydro, stag and doe and serviette aren't the norm in places like Saskatchewan.
Same obviously for alberta. We’re gas and coal power supplied. So we don’t call things Hydro. And I’d bot understand someone talking about stag and doe events. I’d assume they were talking about hunting.
Of course you saskies like your bunny hugs instead of the more reasonable hoodie.
Same with us Atlantic Canadians. Napkins, Power, Bachelor(ette) parties, Freezies, sneakers. I've also heard of stag parties, but that would be more of a baby boomer term. I'd assume Bob is from Ontario. Milk bags were around when I was younger, but I don't think I've seen one in at least a decade. 24 beer is always called a two-four, and a 12 pack is a "case".
One interesting difference I've noticed between Atlantic Canada and Ontario is what they call a 750ml bottle of liquor. We call it a quart, they call it a two-six or two-sixer (26oz).
@@MatthewFraser1 From Ontario myself, and there were a lot of terms Bob used that I've never heard in my life, especially the stag and doe and all that
In British colombia we use some of the terms like freezies but because of all the tourism from the states and Alberta we tend to have a mix of the two
In NL, it is a Stag, or stag night. Hen party maybe. In a storm we lose the power, beer is either a twofour or a dozen. A pop is a coke, even if you want a pepsi
It is interesting that Bob used clicks as a "slang word" for kilometer. A click is a (US American) military term for distance, wich is also a kilometer long.
The metric measurement.
True. It's American military terminology.
Lots of cross training between the US army & Canadian infantry... plus we also use "K" (at least in Ontario) as Lucy mentioned
My dad was career military and he'd always say clicks. We live in Canada.
Yeah. American civilians only used Imperial (ie miles), but you do hear characters in American war movies talk about " X number clicks down the road".
I'm Puerto Rican and you're not alone concerning the mixed use of miles and kilometers. We measure speed in mph, but distance between towns is in kilometers. Also, weather is measured in F but body temperature is measured in either C or F. Milk is sold in liters, half-gallons and gallons. Fuel is sold in liters. We definiteily need to sort this out, hahaha!
In the Canadian prairies, the roads were surveyed into a 1 mile by 2 mile grid, so it is still common in rural areas to give distances in miles.
As a new English learner, I watched your video with great pleasure. Although I live in Canada, I also learned things I had never heard of. Thank you for such a beautiful sharing.
In the US, we use the term “buck” for a dollar because during colonial times, we used to barter quite regularly. And one item to barter with were deer pelts. Generally a male deer (buck) pelt was worth about the same as 1 dollar. So, you could pay with a dollar, or a buck-skin.
We use "buck" in Canada too.
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Yeah we say buck(s) in Canada too
We have even expanded from the slang term Buck in Canada as well. We also say “Beans” or “Beaners” or “Bones”.
@@JesusFriedChrist beaner is a slur 😭
I really love it every time when Bob tries to elaborate, and makes some examples about the picture and the topic. Appreciate it.
Yes, that was well done.
In Alberta, Canada, we don’t use hydro; we call it electricity. Here, we have milk in cartons, not bags and have stag and stagette parties. We say napkin and buy a flat and/or a 2-4 (often pronounced “two-fer”) of beer. Great show! 😊
Glad I stumbled across this video. I am a Canadian but I went to school in Engand for a year when I was 12-13. We lived on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire border in the delightfully named town of Leighton-Buzzard, which of course, my Canadian friends immediately referred to as Buzzard, England. It took me three months to get used to British English and actually, I soon realized that there were SO MANY different accents in England. This is also when I first became aware of the fact that as a Canadian, I had an accent! Canadians always think we don't have accents (except for Newfoundland - but that was part of the UK until 1949) although we think most Americans have strong accents, and spell certain words incorrectly, like colour or flavour or centre. However I soon learned that our retail giant Canadian Tire was an affront to the English language, at least in England! I also couldn't understand what my classmates were saying when they greeted me every morning. Oi! Watcha' Mate! Well, is that a question or a statement and what the hell does it mean? Watch my what?! My back?! Haha, eventually I figured it out. Fascinating though. The following year when I returned to Canada I had actually picked up a slight English accent and the first week of school I got the nickname Limey! Anyways, as fate would have it, I ended up becoming an English teacher abroad for many years in Japan and later China and Vietnam. I like to think the curiosity that led to that started with my experiences in England. Language is fascinating! Keep up the great work!
Most native speakers think others have an accent, even other native speakers. But the truth is everyone has an accent and that is fine and beautiful!
Just say you hate America because it’s default love how nobody’s acknowledging the American woman
I always enjoy these, but I have to say there is so much regional and/or generational difference in the US that frankly you could do an entire series just on those.
It’s called a dialect
The same applies to Canada as well.
@@gary4933 you do understand what "dialect" means, right?
edit: feck i misread the original comment
Same applies with UK
@@gary4933 it’s more like a accent
I was the 1st US born of my Canadian family, so it was really neat hearing the all of them together. My Grandfather was born in the UK too, so I grew up with a delicious combination. This was great fun to watch 😃
Same thing for Americans. I live in California, and I've never heard someone call it a "paper tissue". Just tissue and I've also heard of 24-pack used too. As for accent, there is a neutral accent that is shared between all states though. People can't pinpoint my place of residence based on accent. But they may by certain vocabulary though.
Expressions ,like with younger people really ID them being from like California !
And that freaking annoying" vocal fry" !
Also stoner talk.
Some of the Canadian terms are very different depending on which Province you are from, the example I will give is in the Province of Ontario Electricity is Hydro Electricity but in Nova Scotia where I reside electricity is referred to as Power. I do not know how the other Provinces refer to Electric Power. I know that in Ontario much of the power comes from Niagara Falls, thus Hydro Electricity. We also have different accents when speaking depending on your Province. In mainland Nova Scotia the accents are much different to the accents you will hear in Cape Breton Island.
I'm from Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. My answers:
1. Mostly zee, sometimes zed. I use zed when I'm spelling out something so it's not confused with D or B
2. Bill
3. Sneakers
4. Couch
5. 1 dollar 🤷🏽 we'd say single if referring to the bill itself and not the amount ("You have any singles?").
6. Soft drink is seen as most proper...see-drink or swee-drink (from "sweet drink" but no-one says sweet drink) is a dialectal form (idk the proper term to use there)
7. One kilometer. Also use 1k or 5k for running events etc.
8. Bachelor/bachelorette party
9. Eh (pronounced 'eh' as in 'egg') or ent (same soft e) which probably comes from innit since we were a British colony
10. Cigarettes
11. Pennacool (from "penny cool" cuz they used to cost a penny). We use to have a brand called Freezies. A lolly is the kind with the stick.
12. Milk? 🤷🏽
13. Car park (or multi storey car park but nobody says all those extra words for no reason😂) or parkade rarely
14. Bathroom, washroom, restroom, or toilet interchangeably. I've only ever heard water closet from old people.
15. Fire station
16. Electricity or current. When power goes out - "current gone"
17. Whole wheat bread
18. Napkin
19. Because of the packaging I would say 24 pack. We have actual, reusable hard plastic cases that bottled beer comes in but this kind in the cans would be a 24 pack, although I've only ever seen 6 packs sold like that.
In the Carolinas, we say, “The power’s out.” Our energy company used to be known as Duke Power.
11:11 whaaaat? 😮 I'm Canadian and those have always been "freezies" to me. Just thinking about them fills me with nostalgia. Every summer here growing up, us kids would take a break from playing outside in the heat and go inside for a bit to have some freezies. I actually had no idea Brits and Americans call them popsicles. In Canada, the word "popsicle" only refers to a frozen flavoured and sugary treat with a stick in it. Hence the term "popsicle sticks". But freezies don't have sticks in them, they're literally just plastic tubes filled with sweet, frozen, artificially flavoured and coloured syrup 🤣🤣
I'm from North Yorkshire here in the UK and we would refer to the ones with wooden sticks as Ice Lollies and the ones just in plastic without sticks as Ice Pops. Mr Freeze was the popular brand sold in the local shop when I was young, great days!
US here....in the south, we called them Freezer Pops
yep, its always been freezies...or freezie pops.
I'm from New York, and I wouldn't call them popsicles unless they were on a stick. However, you can call either one an ice pop. You might also hear the one without a stick referred to as a freezer pop or push-up pop, although there is another kind of push-up pop which is on a stick.
Yeah same ☺️
As someone from the United States, I find this incredibly interesting. Thank you, Lucy!
Thank you so much, Grant!
It is funny that she’s British (and posh) but spells kilometer instead of kilometre
@@Ron.S. I actually thought that was a typo!
In Australia it is spelt kilometre... I'm sure it is the same in British English...
@@rebeccasimantov5476 of course it is...
Just like centre for example and not center.
She’s very Americanised... she even said “Skedual” for Schedule... never heard it here. That’s a no no...
I find Lucy decidedly interesting indeed.
I discovered Rachel's channel two days ago and I'm really happy to see this video! Watching the native speakers from the different accents, countries, etc. is really helpful! Thank you for this great video!
As an Asian English learner who’ve been learning English for my whole life, just found out that I mixed everything up 😂
Because American entertainment is so popular, I feel that every ESL (including myself) is more familiar with AmE. However I am from HK and I'm now living in the UK so I have to remind myself to use BrE though it's very difficult since I keep mixing them up.
I beg to differ on Rachel’s “electricity” reference. In the US we generally refer to electricity as “power.” For example: power bill, power lines, power outage, power’s on/off, and etc. That’s not to say there aren’t regional differences.
Don't forget the Otter Pops! We also refer to electricity as "power". SE FL chiming in here.
In our area we generally say electric/electricity.
Right, that's the first thing that came to my mind as well.
We say electric bill where I am from in the USA.
We say electric as well
I find this endlessly interesting. Words often have historical roots that only the word itself keeps alive, as traditions and ways of life change.
Yes yes yes! I love words
I was born & raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
When I was little we also said Kilos & kilo-meter(pronounced kee-lows & kee-low mee-ter), now it's kilometer (kill-lohm-iter) or K
Every time Bob stops talking he ends with a smile
🖐️🖐️
Its an image
@@dzryad7400 Nah.
@@YukiPyro yes it is
Yes😁❤️🇨🇦
The american lady seems to have that smug semi smile🤦🏻♀️😉Wheras Bob is intelligent, warm and friendly
Eastern Canada and western Canada have different accents. Never discussed.
west coast best coast!!
Newfies have one of the most distinctive accents in North America
Same for US. 🤷♀️ East/West/North/South and middle accents 😅
In England you can go 20 miles up the road - particularly the North - and there will be a different accent.
If anyone in the United States ever want to hear a perfect Canadian accent. Go to Minnesota. Seriously! They have a stronger Canadian Accent than most Canadians. LOL
I learned English listening to Rachel. It’s very fun when Lucy holds a show like this! It’s very fun
I'm from Manitoba and grew up in a predominantly Mennonite community. My grandmother was born in 1920 and usually called it a serviette. I know she used the term for disposable napkins but I don't know if she also used it for cloth.
Hey Lucy, just for the record, I have never known Canadians to use the word "a-boot"! In my 64 years it has always been
"a-bout". Just had to get it out there. Thanks.
If it is said, it would be out east or just Newfoundland.
I am 49 and not ever heard "a boot" come out of a single Canadians mouth.
Thank you Dan!
It's funny because in my old job I covered all of Canada (phone and in person) for years and every Canadian says they don't say "aboot"....but ya kinda do. lol. Granted, "aboot" is exaggerated, for sure, but 99% of Canadians say "out" and "about" differently than Americans. Nah, but to be honest, you pronounce it more how it's actually spelled than us (giving respect to the 'u') while we pronounce it more like "abowt." So there you go. Some ammo against us ;)
Canadian RUclipsr J.J. McCullough always says aboot. ruclips.net/user/JJMcCullough
You get used to it.
Here in Brazil, some milks comes in bags as well. They're called "leite de saquinho" (bagged milk), and have different processes to warm it up, conserving some bacteria, like Lactobacillos in it's composition.
The standard milk, called "leite de caixinha" (milk in a box, or boxed milk) have zero bacteria in it, increasing it's longevity but also turning it less wealthy
I Loooove how humble and knowledgeable Bob the Canadian is at teaching and explaining Canadian English. His attitude and demeanour is just 🎉 *WOW!!*
It is southern Ontario's english, not what the rest of the country is using though.
He is only knowledgeable on one small part of Canada.
@@ryzenforce Southern ontario is still part of Canada, not realistic to get a Canadian from every part of the country, Canada is huge.
@@95squares It is not realistic either to say that what is spoken in Southern Ontario is what the *majority* of canadians say.
@@ryzenforce I mean I live in southern Ontario and even then a lot of the stuff he said was different from what other people around me say
Hi Lucy!! My son and I, we love your videos! We have such a good time watching your videos, and it was a very pleasant surprise that you had our other favorite teacher "Bob the Canadian" we love him as well! We were delighted by his presence. What a perfect combo you both!!!! ❤
You outdone yourself this time. Thank you!
I’m a Jamaican now living in Canada. I grew up saying ZED but now say Zee. I remember when Jamaica switched to the metric system in the 80s. So even though we use metric here in Canada, I understand measurements better in imperial so I’m always converting to get a better image in my mind.
I'm surprised Rachel didn't mention "soft drink" as another name for "soda" and "pop". I usually say "soda", but in the southern US, lots of folks either call it by its proper name or say "soft drink".
In the philippines it’s also softdrinks (more like “sopdringks”)
I think it's Soft drink in many places in the world.
Many regional differences in both Canada and US
In the Philippines we call it pop cola or soft drink.
I was going to say the same thing about "soft drinks". In some places in the U.S., people will use "Coke" when they mean sodas/soft drinks, like how people use "Kleenex" for "tissue" or "Pampers" for "diapers".
In regards to "K", as a Canadian, I use "clicks" for distance; but I'll also use it for running if running one of the set racing distances (i.e. 5K or 10K). I also use "K", however, for money denominations in thousands. For example, "That house just sold for 730k). So I use "K" to denote units of 1,000.
I use the term "clicks" for describing speed. Like "He was 20 clicks over the speed limit"
Growing up I didn’t exactly know which English we were taught at school. I only realized after coming to the US that my previous school taught British English (sans the accent lol). I learned to replace my vocabs from rubber to eraser, trousers to pants, rubbish to trash… and spell certain words differently like color instead of colour. I was also shocked to learn the American way of reading time was a lot simpler than the British, such as instead of half past four, it’s just four-thirty or instead of five past six, it’s six-oh-five (btw, the number 0 is usually read as oh, such as when referring to room numbers you would say room three-oh-four to refer to room 304). The American way of reading time was a relief for me since I sucked at the British way back then. But I love British accent while still appreciating the simplicity of American English and hopefully I’ll learn more about Canadian English.
I have the exact same story😊
The time thing is younger vs older people. Older Americans tend to say things like half past, which is incredibly annoying to those of us who grew up with digital clocks - so if you say something like quarter till, you're going to get an "ok, boomer" look even if they don't say it out loud.
And yes, "ok, boomer" is appropriate here, us 50+ gen X'ers want the actual time, not the analog approximation.
The word "Clicks" for kilometers is also used in the U.S. military jargon.
The use of clicks was popularized in the Vietnam War. One speculation for the source of this was the clicks on the taxi meters measured kilometers which the GIs weren’t used to. GIs took taxis everywhere when off duty in Saigon.
I generally only here older people in Ontario Canada refer to kms as Clicks. And I mean older then I, 50. We generally say kilometres or miles, always meaning kilometres of course. Or in slang, we might say, “Oh it’s about 5 beers”
I think a lot of this is regional based, not necessarily that the entire country uses the same words.
Yes but the "standard" form of American-English is the accent everyone aspires to. Certain jobs will turn you down (reporting/journalism, some online teaching jobs, other communication jobs, and more) if you don't speak with this "proper" American accent. So just because everyone speaks differently, I think the point here is to establish what's most widely acceptable as "correct". That said, slang is highly region-specific though and there isn't any "correct" slang IMO.
I liked how Rachel established which parts of the US she lived in, and said "I would call that". Bob's answers were pretty regional, but he always said "in Canada we'd call that". Must be hard to get consistency when filming this stuff completely separate though.
Also, for Lucy's wish of hearing a funny "about", Bob's from the wrong part of the country for that!
Yeah, I'm Canadian and I would definitely say "sneakers", not "runners" or even "running shoes". Things vary from region to region. It's a big place, lol.
Agreed! I felt like a lot of Bob's examples were very Ontarian. I am sure people in the England or the US felt similar things about the other examples given.
We also have the 24 Weekend in May!
In my area people often refer to electricity as "lights". If someone says "the lights went out", it means there was an electrical outage. A "light bill" is the same as an electric bill. A "light pole" is the same as a utility pole.
Yep, lots of interchangeable words here. Light bill, power bill, electric bill. electric lines & power lines but never light lines. Light pole, electric pole, but for myself I've never heard power pole. Yet the place that makes the electricity seems most often called the power station in my neck of the woods.
Except when we say
" Lights out " when going to sleep 😴
@@wasgreg ‘Power pole’ is standard for lower mainland (BC) GWN. Interchangeable with ‘telephone pole’. As when “Gordie wrapped his Pontiac around a (choice between ‘power’ pole, or ‘telephone’ pole), eh. Lotus Land doesn’t make a distinction unless necessary. BTW - Gordie’s better half was pissed right off at him, eh!
I refer to the pole as a light pole, but the lines as power lines. I pay a light bill or an electric bill, but the power went out during the storm. But if describing an accident, the fool wrapped his car around a telephone pole. Weird. Never really thought about that weirdness before, either.
@@vijabe Crazy, isn’t it? Yet, somehow it all works, for the most part. Don’t get started on the bag/sack/poke issue. I’ve known any number of actual English people that still can’t decipher the Yorkshire accent.
Bob, you did such a great job representing us Canadians. ❤️❤️🇨🇦
I thought head will be separated when he will speak...complete disappointment for me(((
Ontarians more so. Lots of his answers do not apply to other places in Canada.
@@alittlebitgonesay couple word examples he'd mentioned pls pls
@@alittlebitgoneE. g. to Québec... Hm, what could that be due to😂 Greetings from beautiful Montréal!
NO, HE DIDN'T.
I'm also Canadian(from Newfoundland), we use most of the same terms as Bob. I think it's more a generational thing though. My mother would use serviette, but I just call them napkins. Hydro can be used but for more common to hear power or electricity. Never ever heard of brown bread though.
In Alberta we call it brown bread or whole wheat. Usually brown bread.
I have never heard anyone in alberta say clicks unless they were a pilot or in that area of occupation
Native Québécois here, we use serviette as a french word (it probably is, I don’t think it sounds very English) and where I live, “brown bread” is commonly used in french, but we also have whole wheat bread as an alternative. It’s funny how both languages interchange in different places.
It’s also quite strange how right next to Newfoundland, in Côte-Nord, we never call electricity “hydro”. We use that word to talk about Hydro-Québec , which owns the hydroelectric dams (mostly when you’re mad about the power running out, coupled with a bunch of semi-religious slurs). We’d be more inclined to use “courant”, which would translate to power or flow.
I believe it's also refered to as molasses bread. As for Hydro I think it depends on what province you live in or grew up in. BC's power company is BC Hydro so it just gets shortened to hydro. Where as in Nova Scotia it's Nova Scotia Power so it would be weird to call it "Hydro".
In South Central Ontario Canada we can buy skim, 1%, 2% (fat) or homo milk in 4 liter amounts which is divided in to 3 plastic bags we put in a pitcher meant to hold a milk bag to make it easier to pour after one little corner is cut off
thank you very much
I think Bob needs to explain that he speaks more for Ontario than he does for Canada, I've lived on both sides of the country and rarely hear some of his stated choice words. Other than that, great video.
Probably. I live in the GTA and was like ummmmmmm sure in some parts with a 😅 cause that's not what I would use.
100%, BC accent is flatter. ontario is pretty much the stereotypical canadian accent
Especially hydro, that's NEVER used in western canada
@@darrenohara4588 Exactly. I live in the prairies & never used the term hydro. Would be electric or power
I live in Turonno and some of Bob's choices never heard. Usually he's not like that...
No no, we DO NOT have a bird called the looney in Canada. The bird is called a Loon! Also the name of the coin is spelled loonie, NOT looney! Again not a tooney, but a toonie.
This lady can't even label my cultures language correctly so don't be surprised.
@@Marconi121 Bob called the bird the "Loonie". And what is it with the Stag and Doe? We also have bachelor and bachelorette parties in Canada. A Stag and Doe is a money raising event for the bride and groom.
@@AcidFlash123 And I'm well aware of that. 😐😐 I'm English anyway so what's your point.?? Parties before you get married in England can include a gift such as cash but generally it's a distasteful way to give a gift especially if the person has invited you to their wedding. Stag or Doe is just a name for a bachelor party that harks back to our very English tradition of dear hunting where if you watch dears through your rifle they chase each other in a flirtatious manner. Stags being very promiscuous in pursuit and does giving a glassy eyed stare to flirt back, it's Also the reason why the phrase "Doe eyed stare" means someone fancies you.
@@Marconi121 Growing up in Montreal I never heard of a Stag and Doe party. The fiancés had separate parties. The guy’s friends would throw him a stag party or bachelor party, the former with a more bawdy connotation. Lots of alcohol were part of either. Women had bridal showers with gifts given to her.
Wow, you got really aggressive over something incredibly inconsequential. I think maybe you need to reevaluate your priorities my friend. If you put this much passion into arguing for things that actually mattered, you might actually make a difference in this world.
Canada is a large country with many distinct regions, so when Bob says "In Canada we say..." he is actually speaking Torontonian. For example, in Canada we call bathrooms: bathrooms, restrooms, washrooms, or toilets, depending where we live. But people from Toronto tend to think all Canadians speak the same way - just like they do in Toronto. Not so!
And in Quebec we don’t say pop. It’s soda or soft drink.
Yeah, I had similar feelings. He started speaking and I knew it'd be a different dialect :/
@@Victoria-qu9jl since I moved to Quebec from Ontario, I’ve noticed most English speakers here tend to revert to American pronunciations
Why did you have to go there. I certainly didn't think he was speaking for the entire Canada. A reasonable person would know that he said it how HE knows it. Thinking you have to clear that up with viewers is condescending.
A lot of US citizens feel the same way. Just because you've travelled the east coast does not mean you've travelled the United States.
I’m from Birmingham in the West Midlands, and from this video I’ve found as many differences between what I say and Lucy’s as I have with the North Americans.
I just love Bob’s lessons. I watch them pretty much every day. I sometimes watch Rachel’s, when I want to improve some piece of pronunciation. Alessandro 🇧🇷
I'm Canadian, but my family used "Fizzy Drinks" and "Pop" interchangeably, "Nappies", and some other things that I didn't realise were typically British until I was much older.
Our family called all of them Coke ! So the conversation went Hey, do you want a Coke . Answer yeah, sure. Ok What kind ? Oh get me an Orange !!
This drove outsiders crazy!
Nowadays it seems we have changed over to just "soft drink". Then the flavor or brand is stated.
@@denp54z I taught myself to say soda because I got tired of people bringing me Coca Cola when I wanted Dr. Pepper.
@@denp54z in Scotland all soft drinks were referred to as "ginger". OK what kind? Orangeade
@@geraldinehamilton2818 I have never heard them called ginger in northern or north eastern Scotland. Fizzy juice or just the name of the drink in question like coke, cola, lemonade etc,.
On the west coast of Canada, it’s not “eh?” It’s “hey?” I picked up the habit when I was in grad school there and more than a decade later I still find myself sometimes putting “hey?” at the end of a question sentence. Also another option for a question marker in the US, in addition to “right?” would be “y’know?”
The stereotype "eh" makes me cringe so hard!! I don't use it, but I do say "huh" and "right" often ..when I watch British shows, they use "eh" so often, and it doesn't bother me. It only bothers me when Americans use it in a mocking way.
We have relatives in Saskatchewan and Alberta and it is always eh. Ditto friends in Victoria who use it as well.
Interestingly, my father-who was born and raised in Toronto- could not stand the “eh” but could never quite wean himself from it…and it would creep in every now and then. I wonder if you went to grad school at UBC. I could see Vancouver being eh averse and substituting hey.
West coast Canadian here. I have never heard a Canadian use "hey" instead if "Eh". We use Eh a lot.
@@adamjessup6878I I admittedly catch myself saying eh sometimes but its usually hey huh or right? Its just a habit and if you pay attention you can pretty easily break it.
Certain questions can easily roll the eh out... like "that fkn sucks eh!?" is one that gets me alot. I think it depends what word comes before the hey ..
I also grew up in the west and I have to agree, we use eh ALOT and I think most of us barely notice it. The australians have butchered and shortened almost every word and everyone mostly likes it but us canadians shorten only one word....hey to eh, and now we will never live it down.. go figure!!
I'm Scottish, so i decided to answer too.
Zed
Bill (a check is something you pay with, you wrtie a check, lol)
Trainers
Couch
A quid
Ginger
1k, aye (I hear click in military/war films)
Hen night and stag night
No sure what words i use a lot as tags
Fags
Icepole (no stick, so not a lolly)
Full fat milk
Multi story car park
Toilet
Fire station
Electricity (leccy)
Broon breed
Napkin
I’m a French Canadian whose comfortably bilingual, and some of these Canadian ones I had no idea ! Guess I’m learning something about my own country here!
C’est sûre que d’un autre côté, le Canada est grand et le Québec à une très grande différence culturelle avec le reste du Canada.
@@zozotte886 C’est sur, je pense que je m’en rends compte toujours plus!
Hey well like he said, big ass country. Ontarian here, we totally put maple on snow at sugar hacks for the maple popsicles in the winter. I know the French do as well since we share the maple forests. Other Canadians don't know about the sugar shacks/cabane à sucre
The way French Canadians speak is also a dialect IMO..
As a Minnesotan I loved this. A very common stereotype/joke we make around here is that we're the Canadians of America. I like calling our state "Canadia." We definitely lean more American with the words themselves, however, I felt like how the Canadian and our dialect have more in common than the American. Which is funny.
Also, it's a pretty even split between bagged and galloned milk
Bagged milk rocks!
My 2 best English's teachers on RUclips!! I love Rachel's channel! I loved have known Bob as well. Thank you all for this Collab.
Any native or good at english speaker ?
I will feel so happy to make conversations with them to improve my speaking skill.
It will be pleasure for me .
😍😍
I would like to thank you to all these participants for this. As you know some of us do not know why this word spells different in american english, why this spells in british or why this in canadian english.But watching this video we can clear our doubt. I really appreciate all you guys. Thanks a lot. 👍
The English Dialect is absolutely poetic. Simply love it.
Which one?
In Ontario, we call electricity "hydro." This is very specific to Ontario.
Yup this is defs an Ontario and East coast thing (where my folks live).. in Alberta we call it ‘power’ … “the power bill is high this month”
@@djthompson1971 I've heard people in the south(south USA) Call it "power bill" also. I'm new to the USA but I've heard it both ways
Yeah
In Manitoba, we call it Hydro and Hydro Bill but I would say "power lines" and "the power's out"
It definitely isn't just an Alberta thing. I have friends and family ranging from Atlantic Canada to B.C. who would call it power. Hydro really is a regional term, presumably because the local utility provider in the area has the word Hydro in the name. i.e. Hydro-Québec, Ontario Hydro or Manitoba Hydro
When I saw the "kilometre" under the US (Rachel) and "kilometer" under Lucy I thought these were transposed. Usually, in my experience its the UK English that uses "re" at the end of their words, such as "theatre" and "metre." The US spelling would be kilometer, meter, and theater. Of course, in our long distance running races in the USA we have "5K" runs and "10K" runs, etc.
As a Canadian, I spell the words your way. When I'm feeling especially Canadian, I will spell words like color, flavor, and honor with the ending -our.
And I always spell check as cheque.
The UK use the "re"
Because of influence of french due to historical events as the aristocrat saw french as a fancy and noble language
And originally it was a language of noble ... until the king of that time maked it compulsory to be teach and learn to the commons
The U.S rejected that french influence so that's why Americans has pronunciation difficulties with french origin words
I was going to comment on the same - also I would consider the use of "clicks" to be more a military thing rather than part a UK civilian parlance...
I thought EXACTLY the same.
I am a Canadian living in the Southern US with my US Southern husband for 52 years. It took him a long time to get me comfortable saying 'Gaawddaamitt' instead of 'giddimit'
I have never and will never said either. I pronounce words.
@@MaggieLarocque good for you. The Southern pronunciation is VERY pronounced, my dear. "I have never 'said' either. You must be so proud
"I will never said either"????? is what you said
In the US military, for field operations, we usually use the metric system and do use "klicks" for kilometers.
It's similar in the UK. The Metric system is used in the school systems, etc. But most parents teach their children the Imperial system as it's traditional. So both get used.
I thought it had a military root to it. One of my uncles served and he was the only person I know who said klicks. Although it kinda rubbed of on me. Kind of sounds cool. Hahaha
@@paulmackay7265 Yeah, it's just easier for one country, the US, to adopt the standard used by pretty much the rest of the world that we work with in joint operations versus trying to convert everything on the fly. So officially they will range distances in meters and kilometers for everything from rifle and artillery fire and distances traveled and so on and so forth.
I don't know if we did it before Vietnam, but definitely back then and going forward.
Canadian military as well
@@markc8401 But isn't Canada officially on the metric system anyway?
Americans absolutely say "k" for marathons and races. 10K, etc.
K stands for thousand if u don't know
We also say 24 pack.
@@braylenozeletele1367 Yes, 1000 meters.
I’m from Yorkshire England and we sat K too. I ran a 10k in 2017 etc. 5k for charity. I never say race or marathon.
So do Canadians
In the Midwest US, we would say “the woods” too. A forest is a huge woodland. Here in Missouri a forest is typically government owned forested land.
Same in UK.
We have a ranch in the forest! LOL (Texas)
In Wisconsin, we go to deforest.
@@MorselOfBread Why cant you See Portage from Madison? Deforest is in Da way.
In saskatchewan forest is the conifer areas up north , a large area of trees in the south is " bush" , but I think up north they call everything bush
Thanks for sharing different names to many objects in common. I love to watch my wonderful teacher Rachel and teacher Bob with you sharing this topic. Congratulations.
I think some of the words commonly used in the US have also changed over the years. My mother used to use settee but eventually started using sofa. I use couch. I'm sure these various versions confuse anyone learning English. The complication caused by adding slang or more specific regional slang or usage (or understanding it) must be an added level of complexity that must be very frustrating. This was a very interesting video.
Where I learned Am English a settee was not as long as a sofa or couch.
Usually 2 people on a settee max.
What about davenport? I use to hear that in the US in the 70s
Yes in the northern midwest ie; Indiana and Ohio they stil! Refer to the sofa as a davenport.
@@spconrad9612 My grandma always called it the Davenport too. I've rarely heard anyone else use that term, so it always makes me smile when I do.
@@donlove3741 That's a loveseat in Canada, I believe.
That was a fun video! I am an American. My girlfriend is Canadian. We had some "fun" with words and pronunciation during my first stay in Canada many years ago. We both swear that it is the other one who has the accent.
You both have an accent lol that is funny though.
I like Bob giving everything a very interesting explanation!
Well done. Very interesting and enjoyable. I am a U. S. Midwesterner and I would use every word the American lady used except I would call the soft drink “ pop” not soda.
In central Massachusetts in the US soda is also called tonic, not to be confused with tonic water, which goes in my gin & tonic. A parking garage is a
building where you park cars. A parking lot is an open air lot designated for parking cars. A popsicle comes on a stick and a freeze pop does not. Low e hearing the differences in our English languages.
Nice to see some of my favorite English Language vloggers collaborate’n Great job!!
Hello, I came across your comment while in the comment section and, I was thrilled to say hello, how is life with you?
Some people like Larry Smith and Braj Kachru call these languages Englishes.
I live in central mass and have never once heard any of these. Bubbler, however, that one was very confusing once I first moved here from the Midwest. Bubbler (water fountain, drinking fountain) is pure Worcester.
@@Nickabod79 if you ask for a bubbler in Canada, someone will pass you a bong!