Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
Oct 24th 2012, 5:32 pm
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
I have yet to work out the correct response to "What's up?".
Oct 24th 2012, 5:33 pm
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
The location of places - somewhere is always located on the 'corner of X and Y' or at intersections. Will take me a while to get used to that.
Oct 24th 2012, 5:35 pm
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Oct 24th 2012, 5:37 pm
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
'A Pint'. It doesn't seems to mean any consistent measure here. Either they can't count properly or they're ripping people off.
Oct 24th 2012, 7:29 pm
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
After a few months we acclimatized and now use the intersection method myself to direct people.
Oct 24th 2012, 7:30 pm
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Oct 25th 2012, 12:14 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
Apart from the really obvious ones which we don't need to go on about, a few things I didn't know. I'll put down more if I remember them.
A "government" job = a "foreigner" job
Skiff = pallet
A few more idioms come up every day - we have some good banter about them! I'm always being told to speak english!!
A "government" job = a "foreigner" job
Skiff = pallet
A few more idioms come up every day - we have some good banter about them! I'm always being told to speak english!!
And the legendary "Sod for Sale" Sod farmers" and my favourite - "Sodding specialists"
Oct 25th 2012, 12:52 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
Oct 25th 2012, 1:11 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
"All you can eat fish tacos" made me double take the first time I saw the sign.
Oct 25th 2012, 1:25 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
I did know the equivalent of Heath-Robinson, but I've forgotten it again :-)
Duh.
Oct 25th 2012, 2:47 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
where i work, they call pallets "pallets" 
they do call it a pallet jack, rather than a pallet truck though!
can't think of any expressions i've heard that have confused me though....
they do call it a pallet jack, rather than a pallet truck though!
can't think of any expressions i've heard that have confused me though....
Oct 25th 2012, 2:54 am
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Re: Canadian Expressions that confuse the British
"It was a gong show"
It means it was chaotic.
It means it was chaotic.