Language barriers?
Hi all: We're planning a trip to the Canadian Rockies with the 5'er.. We have been to Quebec City where knowing some French would have been helpful, and fun! Is the Rockies area more English-friendly...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:
I'm a Western border dweller, so little contact with French-speaking Canadians. But Canadian ENGLISH can be perplexing at times, too.
Favorites picked up from my neighbors-to-the-North are "keener", "fubar", and "hooped" none of which I understood until I looked them up in the closest thing to an online guide to Canuckspeak I could find, at this link
Fun reading.
I especially enjoyed these:
Homo Milk
ABM
Gasbar
Whitener
Mickey
Forty-Pounder
Stagette
“Fill Your Boots!”
Rubber
& best of all :B
“Bugger The Dog”
