Board 8 > I enjoyed this Canadian version of language differences throughout the country

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http://www.the10and3.com/this-is-how-canada-talks/

not sure I can trust anyone who calls kickball soccer baseball though
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I actually only found out while visiting @SantaRPidgey that Kraft Dinner is just Kraft Mac & Cheese in the US
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Pencil crayons??
Kraft dinner??

What
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bahahahah and yessssss crooked is so common in nfld
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Dr_Football posted...

http://www.the10and3.com/this-is-how-canada-talks/

not sure I can trust anyone who calls kickball "soccer baseball" though

just to clarify, because I was confused on the wording
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say soccer baseball and everyone knows what you mean
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Having lived in BC and Alberta for my entire life, a lot of these are news to me. Soccer Baseball is probably the most wtf of them all though.

Also never even considered that there was another name for pencil crayons.
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thundersheep posted...

Also never even considered that there was another name for pencil crayons.

think coloured pencil was usually on the cases/boxes of laurentiens that were always around, though never heard them actually called that
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I've never heard anyone use the word garburator

I believe we exclusively use the phrase California kickball to refer to kickball in the lower mainland

Menji posted...

Kraft dinner??

It's a little misleading. Mac & cheese is mac & cheese, but usually when people are referring to/buying it, it's Kraft Dinner branded mac & cheese at a grocery store. People don't call it KD if they make it from scratch or order it at a restaurant
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my mom's the only person I've heard say "garburator", she's from Newfoundland which seems to be garbage disposal territory though...
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iiicon posted...

It's a little misleading. Mac & cheese is mac & cheese, but usually when people are referring to/buying it, it's Kraft Dinner branded mac & cheese at a grocery store. People don't call it KD if they make it from scratch or order it at a restaurant

Ah, that makes more sense. I thought it taken on new meaning, like bandaid, kleenex, google, etc.
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Bah, can't get to that link at work. Can someone copy/paste the Canadian-isms? The ones posted so far all sound super familiar, but I'm from the Maritimes and we have the weirdest language for sure b'y.
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copy pasted them into an imgur album

http://imgur.com/a/zcc0r
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As an albertan I can agree with most of these, but I do use Grades and Marks pretty interchangeably. The Cabin/Cottage/Camp thing to me depends on the location of the getaway. If it's in the woods it's a cabin, if it's on the lake or the ocean it's a cottage.
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Thanks! All of these sound very familiar to me. Though I do not say Soft drink, I usually say Soda. I also never say Silverware.
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