Hi everyone. It's Yukari.
The video about American English and Canadian English that I uploaded before
got a lot of thumbs up so
in this video we are gonna introduce some Canadian English words.
Canada is a huge country so
some people might not use these words or
some words might be used in a different place.
But we picked some words which are known as Canadian English words,
so we are gonna talk about them.
There are many words I don't know so
Stu-san will give me a quiz.
I'll answer if I know or I'll guess if I don't know.
Y: Okay...Stu-san... S: Ready! Okay...word #1 is...
Y: Ah that's easy. We made a Tim Horton's video before and we talked about it
A double double is like two sugar and two cream for coffee.
S: Yeah, but it makes the coffee really sweet.
It's really really sweet.
Y: But do you think double double is for just only Tim Hortons?
S: If you went to McDonald's and you ordered a "double-double"
That's fine...they'd know exactly what you mean but...
most other nice coffee shops, like Starbucks, or a real place
they give you the cream and the sugar so you can do it yourself.
It's just Tim Horton's and McDonald's, really.
Y: You cannot ask for a double double at Starbucks?
S: Well you could, but they'd just give you a coffee and then point you to the cream and the sugar and say help yourself...
Okay, word #2 is...
Y: Canucks! ....Ice hockey team!
S: You are correct!
But, the word Canuck also means a Canadian person.
Y: A Canadian person?
S: Yeah, which is why the Vancouver canucks is the hockey team.
They are like the Vancouver Canadians... the Canucks
Y: So like New Zealand people called Kiwi...like that?
S: Yes, exactly.
Yeah, so New Zealand people are Kiwis...
English people are Limeys,
American people are Yankees
and Canadian people are Canucks
Y: So can you ask like, "are you a Canuck?"
S: "Are you a Canuck?" Yeah, you could say that.
Y: How can you use that?
S: Just, it's very casual...it's very slang.
Word #3 is...
Y: Garburator. I know that.
Garburator is like, a small machine.
under the sink.
and it like, smashes food.
S: Yeah, so like, it's a little, in the sink...
like in the base of the sink, with the drain, where the water goes, you can put food in there...
hit the garburator and it grinds up all the food.
It is nice. It's convenient, because you can just get rid of your food, right?
You don't have to throw it out. You can just grind it up and it goes away.
Much easier.
Yeah, that's a garburator.
Okay, word #4 is...
Y: A person who....
A person who is giving a lot of presents to people.
S: So, this is quite funny actually, because "give'r" basically means the same thing as "Ganbatte."
"Give'r" means "give it your best effort."
Like, go for it.
Y: So how can you use it?
S: Exactly the same way you would use Ganbatte.
You've got a big English test tomorrow. Well...Give'r!
Y: Interesting!
S: Okay, next word is...
Y: Ah, Hydro is like, utilities...
Like, electricity fees.
S: So it's "Hydro-electric power."
So it's just a slang word for a bill or your electricity.
So somebody might say "how much do you pay for hydro?"
"Oh, I pay $25 a month..." that sort of thing.
Okay, next word?
Y: Ah, we did that, last time.
Pop is like coke, or sprite that kind of...
S: Pop for Canadian English,
AmericanEnglish is soda...
British English is fizzy drink
or carbonated drink.
But yeah, Coke, Sprite, Ginger Ale that kind of thing.
Next word?
Y: Twenty-four hours?
S:Fail!
So a two-four is a case of beer.
Y: Not six?
S: No, well...you can say a six of beer.
You can say a 12 of beer but you don't say a 24 of beer. You say two four
So you could say maybe "I'm gonna go buy a two-four beer for the party tonight."
Y: Oh that means you will get a big box... of beer?
S: Yeah, of twenty-four beers.
But because you write it two, and then four, you say "two-four."
Y: So, can you say one-five for fifteen?
S: No, you can't. Definitely not, no. Just "two-four."
But, good to know!
Next one?
Y: Mickey Mouse!
S: No.
Y: Minnie Mouse?
S: "Mickey" is also alcohol related.
Y: Looks like "Mickey mouse?"
S: So the you know the little bottles of alcohol they're about this big...
and they hold about 12 ounces of alcohol.
That's called a "Mickey."
Y: Like a size?
S: Like a small bottle of alcohol.
Y: Any alcohol is okay?
S: It's doesn't matter the type of alcohol...
Y: like Vodka, or Whiskey, anything?
S: Anything is fine, yeah.
It's you know those little like kind of drinkable size bottles..
Y: That thin...? S:The thin one, yeah. That's what I mean...
Y: Like...portable? S: That's a Mickey, yeah.
I don't know why but...that's a mickey.
Okay next word is...
Y: A person riding a horse?
S: No.
Any more guesses?
Y: Loser? S: Yes!
Y: What??
S: Yeah, exactly! Y: What, really?
A loser, yeah yeah.
So, the word hoser, it's kind of a joke because it came from a TV show
Which was like, a comedy thing.
But a hoser is somebody who's lost something. Kind of an insult.
Kind of an idiot person, a loser.
It came from - I read about this
it came from the idea that the person who loses the hockey game
has to like use the water to hose down the ice rink.
Y: Like clean?
S: So he's the hoser...
Because they lost the game.
and the winners go and drink the two-four.
Y: Interesting!
S: All right, next word!
S: Sort of...
Any other guess?
Y: Breaking... S: Breaking things?
S: Hmm..No! Y: Holes...
S: More like taking things off...
A st****er...is a ripper.
Y: I thought so!
S: So in Canada, if you're at a st*** club, people call it the rippers.
Because the girls are ripping off their clothes...
Last one...
Y: Mickey Mouse from Texas!
S: No!
So, same...it's alcohol...but "mickey" is like the little bottle...
"Texas Mickey" is like the HUGE bottle.
Like, gigantic bottle of alcohol!
Maybe you only see them in, I don't know, some places but...
Super big. Lots of alcohol. Texas Mickey!
Teenagers in Canada buy, or young people I should say,
buy Texas Mickeys for big parties...
Y: I see!
And those are our Canadian words!
There are lots more, of course, but that's enough for today.
Y: So we picked some Canadian English words and talked about them.
Thank you for watching to the end.
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