"Eh?" crept into your vacabulary yet?

Only in a ironic way eh!

It's always been in my vocabulary or, at least half of it is from my Lancashire "Ey up lad"!

If it hasn't yet... it will, it will. ...


Siren eh?

I tend to say "For Sure" a lot, does this count?

I'm talking a lot to my rells over the pond at the moment, and I am having to try to refrain from picking up saying aboot, rather than about....

We do NOT say "aboot" !!! (Unless you're from P.E.I. )
"For sure" does not strike me as very Canadian... I don't know anyone who uses it.

My personal favorite Canadianism is "hoser" (substitute for loser)

"Take off ya Hoser, eh?" Ahhhh... I miss Canada


Siren

ok i never understood the whole 'aboot' thing... i was born in canada and lived there for 22 years before moving to the UK and i can never remember anyone pronouncing it 'aboot'....

is this a regional thing?

oh yeah, big time, same for "aboot", "hoos" and so on....

"Eh" is tolerable. Use of the Britishism "Brilliant" would be really scary!

I don't know if its a regional thing, perhaps it's a thing that just my fof over there do.

As to For Sure, I think its very much a Quebec specific thing, bien sur is french for for sure. The thing is that I don't live in Canada at the moment, so I could well be the victim of a prank! Like us Londoners telling US tourists that they need to go to Lyechester Square!

But then I have a rather evil and twisted sense of humour anyway...

I know a couple of guys who definitely say "aboot", but they also have Lanny McDonald style moustaches and I get the feeling they're from out of town.

I've also heard and use "for sure".

I work with snowboarders so dude, awesome, etc have also crept in ....

i have a friend from new zealand who is constantly saying 'for sure'... i like it!

as for 'eh' all it took was one trip to canada in april for my husband to pick it up!

[QUOTE=Sarah Farrand]
As to For Sure, I think its very much a Quebec specific thing, bien sur is french for for sure. QUOTE]


LOL I am from Quebec and I rarely heard "for sure", that strikes me as a very American "valley" saying.. Bien sur.. YES!.. a lot... but only when your talking to a french person. It wouldn't make sense to be speaking english and all of a sudden blurt out "bien sur!"

I think "sure" by itself is used a lot.. I can even think of lots of instances when I would use it. Hmmmm... let me confer with another Canadian who's heard me speak since I was 8 or so... she'll tell me if "for sure" ever crept into our vocabulary - hopefully... sometimes she has a mind live a seive!

Siren

Hmmm... who could you be talking aboooooot? Moi perhaps? 'Mind like a seive' gave it away.

Firstly, 'bien sur' is used by quite a few English Quebecers too, but it's usually used in quite a slang way. I can just picture my wonderful- but-loud stepfather shouting it out and following it up with English spoken in a cheesy French accent. (He's a funny guy, my stepdad!)

And, concerning 'for sure'; perhaps we misunderstand. Perhaps Sarah Farrand didn't mean that people actually say 'for sure'. Perhaps she translated 'bien sur' for the purpose of putting it in the forum. If she did indeed mean the English version though, I, like Siren, cannot say that I've heard it used frequently (and I'm from Quebec too).

And lastly, to Siren: Hoser? You must have started using that one after I left Canada! Or does that one really belong on the Australian forum?

Hoser.....Remember Bob and Doug McKenzie? Its not a new thing.