britishvixen21

Heres a question for you though - What Canadian slang do you have in your vocab now?

I find i say awesome a lot and eh at the end of sentences. I pick up accents pretty easy and although im still as broad in my essex accent as il ever be i find i say CAnadian slang quite a bit, everyone back home comments on it. but then Mr. Vixen is Canadian and i do pick up a lot from him.

yonk

I say "cool" all the time, worked with a Canadian for a couple of years, then in the next place, worked for a Canadian for a couple of years, so just picked it up and it's stayed.

But then I think "disnae matter" in my head now, but would never say it as it doesn't sound right with my Welsh Borders/Shropshire "come 'ere" accent.

poll72000

I find when talking to Canadians i go up at the end of a sentence, making it sound more like a question (If you know what i mean?) Otherwise they look at me with a blank stare.

Qfragger

Funny how things change, when we arrived in Canada we wanted our Daughter to speak English now we have been back in England for 5 months she has lost almost all her Canadian slang which is a shame because now she sounds common as muck. We are renturning to Canada in a few months and can't wait for her to speak Canadian again...

cov lad

RIGHT
this word right is just damm plain rude..
i heard it all the time in vancouver dont know about anywhere else.
for e.g
i am just going to the store after i have have done this RIGHT.
I FEEL LIKE SAYING no not right .
its like they are so cocksure of them selves .
right :scared:

heritagefarmer

I'm working, so I've had to adjust my speech or else some people just WON'T understand me. There are some people, for whom, you have to repeat EVERYTHING.

You have to say 'I guess' if you say 'I suppose so' they don't understand.

They also say 'we don't got ....." instead of 'we don't have......'
drives me nuts that one.

Hubbys biggest beef is 'soccer' instead of 'football', he says we invented the game and the Americans stole the name.
His other one is 'gerrarge', as opposed to 'garridge' which is how we say it back in Brum, although that varies throughout UK too, but here it is different again.

He loves to slip in 'toodle pip' and other wierd words so he can watch people frown, but be too polite to ask, His favourite is 'mozzies'. That gets 'em every time!

Still love it here though, and wouldn;t change a thing!

britishvixen21

LOL thats so funny, my best freind here is originally from Newcastle but lived in Essex where slang is rife, its so funny when we are out we literally have a different language that no one else gets, a canadian can be getting tottally cained by us and not even realise it LOL

Piff Poff

[QUOTE=heritagefarmer]

He loves to slip in 'toodle pip' and other wierd words so he can watch people frown, but be too polite to ask, His favourite is 'mozzies'. That gets 'em every time!

Yeah! I like to say woolly pully, ta ta for now and other various phrase I never would have used in England just to see the confused faces.......Oh its the FUNNEST(aaarrrrgghhhh)thing to do!