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I-Am-Canadian-Eh — Canadian Slang
Published: 2005-06-10 05:42:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 13147; Favourites: 90; Downloads: 13914
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Canadian's have a very mild "accent" but as with all languages, we still have our own personal lingo that we share.
Yep, it's nice, and I'm proud of it but it seems to really confuse some our Non-Canadian friends... Heheh. Any Canadian would tell you they've met at least ONE person who has stared at you like you had 3 heads when you used any of the words featured here. 
*The pictures used here can be credited to these sites:
Coke: [link]
Smarties: [link]
Couch: [link]
Toque: [link]
Chocolate Bar: [link]
Loonie: [link]
Rockets: [link]
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I already say some of these and I was born in Missouri, USA. XDXD
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x3 ouuu yes i say hat 
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I use all of these slangs but I call a toque a hat :'D
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I say Pop, I say Couch, I say Hat, I say Chocolate bar, I say Smarties, Looines, and Rockets. :3
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No smarties in america?
xD Man, you have my pity
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guess they don't have any smarty pants, eh?
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Lol so true! I went to Hawaii a couple years ago, and people told me I had a Canadian accent. x3
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Nice!
I went to Maui a few years back and people could tell that I was from Canada just from my accent...And the people were from Seattle. lol.
Some people way down south think that we live in igloos...
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Oh, an idiot! How cute.
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Oh god thank you for this. xD I go to an international school and me and a Canadian friend of mine spent nearly the whole bus ride home trying to explain what a toque was to one of her friends, took me until near the end to say it's like a beanie and oh they got it! XD
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I call pop pop, a couch couch, and I have had both kinds of smarties. Americans talk that way too, for some of the stuff anyhow. Or at leat where I live...
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My face was the same xD
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I love smarties. D:
what kind of sorcery is this?
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...You do know that a chesterfield is a Canadianism right?
It's very Canadian to call a couch or sofa a chesterfield, so much so that I only know of elder folk to use that term.
Just to clear things up.
Greetings from Ontario!
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Actually, it's a Tuque, I'm french canadian. VIVE LA TUQUE! i actually have two canadian winter mottos in my signature.
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i thought everyone used these terms
AND AMERICANS DONT HAVE SMARTIES?!?!!?
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OH MY GOD THERE ARE NO SMARTIES IN AMERICA?! HOW DO YOU PEOPLE LIIIIIVE???!!
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I'm American, but I remember eating Smarties when I was younger. Now I can't find them anywhere.
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OH MY GOD! I have so had people ask me what that heck I am talking about. I work at an ice cream place by the boarder and I get so many americans asking me what the heck a smartie is. GO CANADIANS!
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the only person I know how them "chesterfields" is my granny and she watches cnn.
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Ahah yeah me and my american friend had some confusion when we were talking about candies!
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Our Canadian slang is better than the American slang!
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Ugh...I live in the USA South. I hate hearing "coke" refer to SODA POP (that's my family's variation 
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Ahaha... I've never understood why Americans call "chocolate bars", "candy bars"... they're made of chocolate... not candy!
This is quite funny, actually!
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Woah. I'm not even in a Northern part of the US of A, and I don't know anyone who doesn't say couch...or use "candy bar" and "chocolate bar" interchangebly.
Um! Do you spell it "grey" rather than "gray"?
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You may have rockets, but we have peeps.
Only one I'd like to point out is the sofa/couch one.
We kinda alter between the two.
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Oh....Well, I'm sure we have something down here that you don't.
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Peeps? oh, do you mean those sugar coated marchmellow things that look like baby chicks that are available during Easter?
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Don't forget about how we say "runners" and they say "sneakers".
And we say "slivers" while they say "splinters".
But yeah. Our lingo is so awesome. xD I have friends from all over the world who are always astonished when I say "Eh?" because they're convinced it's just stereotypical and nobody actually says it.
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I've always said runners & slivers. I'd get confused when they'd say the other things.
I say "Eh". but it sounds more like "Eey!" short for Hey. (most of the time. xD)
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Splinters/slivers are used completely interchangeably in the States. In California I'd say I usually call them slivers.
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Canadian and proud!
Haha that's so true.
I use all those slang words.
I didn't really recognize it, but Americans always question me on it.
'Specially 'favourite' and 'colour', and sometimes 'gray/grey'.
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