Canadian dialect
May 10th 2010, 3:33 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
Like calling the kitchen the stove or the fridge.I've been using the phrase 'off to the pisser' - everyone seems to understand that.
May 10th 2010, 3:44 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
I need a wee or where's the bog doesnt seem to work either!
May 10th 2010, 4:02 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
Do we have WCs in Canada? I don't remember seeing a sign calling the loo that.
My mum asks where the Ladies is when she needs the loo/toilet/lavatory/netty/WC/bathroom/washroom/powder room.
There are so many coy ways of asking where the room is, lets be bold and from now on call it the peeing and pooing room.
My mum asks where the Ladies is when she needs the loo/toilet/lavatory/netty/WC/bathroom/washroom/powder room.
There are so many coy ways of asking where the room is, lets be bold and from now on call it the peeing and pooing room.
couldn't stop giggling 
May 10th 2010, 4:32 pm
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May 10th 2010, 4:37 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
Just say "Me wanna go plop-plops."
May 10th 2010, 6:50 pm
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Particularly confusing when there is actually someone called John around.
May 10th 2010, 7:06 pm
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Running down the corridor shouting "gotta go, gotta go" seems to get the message across effectively. Even more so if you can run with your knees locked together or bent double clutching your belly.
You can say belly in Canada.
You can say belly in Canada.
May 10th 2010, 7:09 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
I love Canada as you can use the word 'fanny' with total abandonment.
May 10th 2010, 7:26 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
But you can't wish a late happy Mothers Day to all the Mother****ers out there.
er, you can't say it out loud I mean.
er, you can't say it out loud I mean.
May 11th 2010, 3:18 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
My female French Canadian roomate told me a couple of days ago that she had a sore trout 
well that was me in stitches for the rest of the night - she had no idea why i thought it was so funny.
well that was me in stitches for the rest of the night - she had no idea why i thought it was so funny.
May 11th 2010, 3:54 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
One of the other group ex instructors here is from Belgium, we were training the other day and he was telling me how he broke his "hankle" and that I needed to strengthen my "harms"!
May 11th 2010, 4:02 pm
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Re: Canadian dialect
I try and get my Canadian HID to use British idioms without understanding their context. She called my mum a wanker, thinking it was a term of endearment and asked my very posh aunt if she had some bog roll. I've got a few more I working on in which I'm hoping to work into her keynote address at a UK conference later this year. 
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