CanadaThe best part of North

America

Canadian English = a mixture of BrEng and AmEngl

For example :

Canadians take one word from each.

Canadianisms. It’s a Fact, Eh!

"Canadians write cheques for their colour TVs and

freezers. They turn off the tap, eat porridge, put jam on

their toast and gas in their trucks, and munch potato chips

as they relax on their chesterfields.”

BRITISH ENGLISH AMERICAN ENGLISH

CHEQUES COLOUR

TAP

JAMPORRIDGE

GAS

POTATO CHIPS

TRUCKS

Canadianisms. It’s a Fact, Eh!

The Canadian 'accent' can be heard most easily in the

following words: out, about, house, and others with 'ou’.

In Toronto they pronounce the name of their city in a

peculiar way.

‘Eh’ is also often used by these Canadians as a

traditional greeting , a interrogative, etc.

Hey....!I'm not a lumberjack, or a fur trader,

and I don't live in an igloo or eat blubber, or own a dogsled,and I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzy from Canada, although I'm

certain they're really, really nice.I have a Prime Minister, not a President.

I speak English and French, NOT American!and I pronounce it 'ABOUT', NOT 'A BOOT'.

I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack.I believe in peace keeping, NOT policing.

DIVERSITY, NOT assimilation,AND THAT THE BEAVER IS A TRULY PROUD AND NOBLE ANIMAL.

I KNOW THAT A TOQUE IS A HAT,A CHESTERFIELD IS A COUCH,

AND IT IS PRONOUCED 'ZED' NOT 'ZEE', 'ZED'!!!CANADA IS THE SECOND LARGEST LANDMASS IN THE WORLD!

THE FIRST NATION OF HOCKEY!AND THE BEST PART OF NORTH AMERICA!

MY NAME IS JOE!!AND ... I AM ... C A N A D I A N !

Canadian Englishbachelor apartment

Chesterfield

chippy

ghost carhomo milk

hoser

mickey

Molson belly Mountie

parkadepogeystanfieldsto deke

toque

2-4

Canadianisms. It’s a fact, Eh!

The following paragraph is provided as a test for Canadian citizenship. Try to decipher most of the following. 

Last night, I cashed my pogey and went to buy a

mickey at the beer parlour, but my skidoo got

stuck in the muskeg on my way back to the duplex.

I was trying to deke out a deer, you see. Stupid

chinook, melted everything. And then a Mountie

snuck up behind me in a ghost car and gave me an

impaired. I was sitting there dressed only in my

Stanfields and a toque at the time. And the

Mountie, he's all chippy and everything.

a bog characterized by scattered and stunted evergreens

a brand name now used to refer to any snowmobile

an unseasonably warm wind that melts snow on the prairies

aggressive or angry

unemployment insurance

knit hat

an infraction for driving under the influence of alcohol

a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

an unmarked police car.

a small bottle of alcohol

to fool.

men's underwear.

a building with two apartments

MUSKEG

SKIDOO

CHINOOKCHIPPY

POGEY

TOQUEIMPAIRED

MOUNTIE

MICKEY

TO DEKE

STANFIELDS

DUPLEX

GHOST CAR:

A few more examplesa two four (2-4)a chesterfielda double-doublea loonie and a tooniedraught (adj)Molson bellyhomo milk

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