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Is that a Canadian thing? My wife and stepdaughter use it that way but they're Quebecers and I always assumed it was a translation issue.

Like open or close the light. Or I received rain.

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Kind of like cwrah-son ish?

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Close the light is used by anglo quebecers...sure fire way to tell them apart from other cradles. Anglo quebecers also say 'autoroute' and 'dep' naturally.

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That's what I thought :)

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How about people who say 'flip me the note' another way to say 'forward the email'.

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Can I add 'touch base' to the communication references?

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Never ever heard of this, but sounds like nails on a blackboard to me.

Yes. Hate that one. :lol:

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Cradles mispronounce all the local street and place names; MacDonnell, Listowel, Delhi, Yorkshire etc. They sound like Rene from Allo Allo.

I don't use Canadian English, not as a statement, but because there's no reason to do so. Expressions others use here that make me think the speaker has some sort of cognitive disability are "reach out" (except when followed by "darlin' reach out for me"), wordsmith, author as a verb, "speak to" (yeah, you chat with that issue, I've turned me ears off), "have the conversation" (meaning "ask"). The use of "proactive" or "endorphinize" instantly lowers the speaker in my esteem but I don't think these are specifically Canadian.

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lol! I totally agree, I cringe every time I hear that!
They will always be chips with my Fish on a friday, not fries, and its a courgette not a zucchini!
ooooh and 'anyways'

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How the (presumably french) bloke on the wikipedia article does.

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Delhi got a good chuckle from me I'll admit. I thought they were joking.

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As against the UK English pronunciation:

Cwassont

:eek:

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Same here, the word has become so sexualized nowadays that it borders on being cringeworthy in certain contexts.

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:eek: I think that one sounds a bit funny. Like a baby is talking.

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Been lurking for a while- had to sign up to comment on this!

The singularly most over-used word in North America........ah-sum!

my other pet peeve is the standard and insincere "gudhowareu" when asking someone how they are doing..

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Except that's basically the correct way to say it.

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Data pronounced datah instead of dayta. I just hate it :sneaky:
Panties - yuck :sick:
hose (house) :eek:

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Meer for mirror!!!

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I'm not sure if it's a Canadian expression or not but I've had more than enough people tell me that "It's all good". I have some miles behind me and I can assure you that it most certainly is not "all good". :p

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Buddy. Its pronounced okay its just they use ad nauseum. What happened to just calling people c*** face?

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It is what it is! (Gaaaaaaaah)

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A "go to" item. That's my "go to file" I had to ask what it meant.

Impact, it impacted someone. In my world the phrase should be "had an impact on". Impacted sounds as if they are squashed, or constipated if medical.

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Exactly - impacted bowel, that's what they used to call it.

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I hate this. People don't know what to say when you say "Actually i'm having a real shit day today." They just kind of "Oh." ...

Similar to that, people expect you to say "Its great" or something positive about everything. Case in point - people ask me how I like high school / how school is going - they expect me to say "Oh, its great!" and list a bunch of things I like about it. I actually hate school, always have, literally hated it since the first week of kindergarten. I don't think after 11 years i'm going to start liking it. So when I respond to that question with "Ehh I don't really like it that much to be honest" or when i'm in a good mood and I compromise by saying "Ehh its alright" , people just do not know what to say! Its really irritating. :eek:

Yep, but i'm sad to say i'm guilty of this one. I can't pronounce it the British way. I know grammatically, it is not correct. "Mirror" does not read "Meer" , otherwise it would be spelt "Meer" .

:rofl::rofl:

Mum uses this one on me every. single. day. It is applied to everything, "Oh, the car dealer really serviced the car bad, I've had to take it in twice more and it still isn't fixed!" "Ah well, it is what it is, why complain about it?" is an example, I could go on and on listing them.

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Ha ha...my partner who is from Alberta, says this all the time (although usually in the correct context).
He often precedes it with an emphatic 'BUT.....That being said'.
Fortunately, it amuses me rather than irritates me.

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I'm not so good at quotes on a tablet:

Bats & 4 bells:- "go to" and "it is what it is" :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Disgusting, stupid lazy English usage...really horible:thumbdown:

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Liderally.

It literally adds nothing to the sentence.

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I don't know what parts of England you've lived in but the majority living there speak in dialects and accents that distort the language in so many horrible ways. So, not necessarily a NA problem.

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Lighten up

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"The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain". It's rumored to be a good way of testing someone's English dialect. I can actually think of the many different ways in which different people from different backgrounds (both anglophone and non-anglophone) would pronounce the words in that sentence.

However, the rain in Spain actually falls mainly on the windward side of the Pyrenees mountains nearest to the sea/ocean.

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Alreet pet.

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Foreigners really should make the effort to speak English properly if they expect us to take them seriously. I mean, have you ever heard a Frenchie trying to pronounce Beauchamps. Pathetic, isn't it?

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Inbox me
Sidewalk
Hey hun

and all the ones already listed!

:eek:

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Burglarize

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Humour me, how do the locals pronounce Beauchamps?

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Bowchamps here I think.

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Or is it byou champs?

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In London it is pronounced beecham. I have no idea how Vancouverites would pronounce it. Who cares?

There is a street in Vancouver called Dumfries Street. It is pronounced to rhyme with French Fries not Fleece. This first time I heard it my instinct was to think it was pronounced "wrong." On second thought, if the way Brits pronounce Beauchamps, or the Vale of Belvoir, is "right" why the hell shouldn't Dum Fries be right.

I can think of more important things to get my panties in a twist about.

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Yes, that one too. :lol:


(or bunch)

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In Canada "don't get your knickers in a twist" is a common expression, (rare use of the word knickers). "Don't get your panties in a knot"(and less often in a twist) is the Canadian equivalent and I guess gets nearly equal use.
My dear old Aunt lived in Kits between Trutch and Blenhiem, lots of room for mis-pronunciation there as well.