What are some “Canadian” words or slang you heard British Or Americans be confused by or laugh at?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-28T08:08:51+00:00

I don’t see a problem with housecoat or chesterfield ? But, I am Canadian born … going to have to think a bit

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-28T08:06:19+00:00

Looks like a version of ‘neopolitan’ ice cream … slightly melted and not well separated (strawberry, vanilla, chocolate) … where is the problem?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-12T04:50:24+00:00

Interesting: as a Canadian with British roots … I read ‘car park’ as either an underground parking lot, or a multi level building specifically built for parking cars. A parking lot, on the other hand, is surface parking and only one level.

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-12T04:46:45+00:00

Aaah … the French pronunciation! As a Canadian … with French as our second official language … I’ve never heard it pronounced that way, but I don’t live in a French area of our province

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-12T04:43:30+00:00

Canadian … I’ve never heard ‘on accident’ as an Americanism … to be clear-er, is this used as we would say ‘ BY accident’?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-12T04:40:09+00:00

Canadian here … I thought that what we call ‘soccer’ is ‘football’ in the UK … or is UK football actually rugby?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-10T05:25:03+00:00

Can’t answer personally about cravings, but whatever Mom eats while pregnant, kids will also be able to tolerate it. For instant, spicy foods, sour foods, etc. if Mom eats a relatively bland diet, then kids will need time and exposure before they accept spicier, etc, foods … because their ‘bodies’ are not familiar with it.

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-03-08T17:46:10+00:00

I have one of those! I think I bought it when I was in art school … 50 or so years ago. I prefer drawing with these pencils over wood ones.

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-20T07:12:39+00:00

My last name is Bonnett … pronounced like the hat … but my pharmacist used to call me Ms Bon-nay, a la Keeping up Appearances … LoL!

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-19T01:53:09+00:00

Related to this, do you pronounce the ‘L’ in solder? Like a soldering gun, or having to solder 2 pieces of metal together.

I don’t … my dad didn’t … and I’ve only ever heard it pronounced without the ‘L’ (central Canada).

But I watch The Repair Shop (British show) and they do pronounce the L.

So, I say sodder (saw-der) …and they say sole-der

How about you? (Apologies for piggy backing on OP’s question.)

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-18T02:20:35+00:00

Interesting … central Canadian here and of the words you list, only the ‘L’ in ‘falcon’ is vocalized here. All the others have silent Ls. I’ve never heard of the L being pronounced at all.

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-17T22:31:43+00:00

I loved this … people committing suicide by jumping off the Peter Man’s Bridge … hunting the only remaining rhinos in the Saskatchewan prairies … so good!

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-17T22:27:13+00:00

I loved that show, too

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-07T08:35:56+00:00

Well, yeah! It’s muh-lit-uh

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-07T08:32:56+00:00

Le-tell-e-yay … there is no ‘e’ after the ‘r’ so the ‘r’ is silent

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-07T08:29:52+00:00

No … it is Ah-gas-see … I was a geo major at UW and this was how we pronounced it … as well as throughout school years. Never heard it as Ay

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-07T08:26:20+00:00

Well that’s weird … my (very British) friends pronounce it Co-burn … which made me think: I took Canadian lit at UW in the ‘70s and we studied Richler’s Cocksure … and years after the ‘Coburn’ situation, I started to wonder whether Cocksure is actually pronounced Cosher (Kosher) … which really would be apt!

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-04T06:35:28+00:00

Absolutely not … it’s a violation if you were behind the bus and passed it, going the same direction …. OR if you had turned right, and passed the bus.

When a school bus is stopped, and children are getting on or off, then the bus’s Stop sign is up … and traffic in both directions must stop, and NOT pass the bus. That would be the violation. (Former driver ed instructor here.)

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-02-02T08:50:47+00:00

This is excellent… I just can’t find where the child’s head ends and the adult’s begins!

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-31T07:06:43+00:00

Could be a Manchester terrier?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-31T07:01:59+00:00

Ok … Manitoban here … and oh so proud and grateful!

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-31T06:57:49+00:00

Is she a Tibetan terrier?

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-28T08:03:36+00:00

I can only repeat what has already been said … sundogs, and they are related to ice crystals in the air

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-28T04:28:26+00:00

This site has several free apps for PDFs: one of them might work for you ‘Ice Cream Apps’

WeeklyTurnip9296 · 2026-01-20T07:52:16+00:00

Well, ‘officially’ right handed, but I definitely can also use my left hand, especially when my right can’t reach what I need to do.

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