that's good eh? yeah yeah that's good
Oh Canada!
oh so patriotic
it is
hey everybody we are celebrating Canada's
150th birthday this weekend
and we are so excited because Canada's getting old
old by our standards but not by everybody else's
I don't think
yeah exactly and to celebrate
we thought that we would teach you
how to speak Canadian because we're
a little bit different up here in the great white north
and if you come to
visit us you might get a little bit confused
by the way we speak
well these things that we're
going to go through today will teach you
a few words a few
a few phrases a few
how to say a few things
so when you do come up here you
will fit in
the first word we want to teach you is something that every
Canadian uses from birth I think it's the first word I said when I spoke
it is the word eh
there was a dramatic pause there
that was a very dramatic pause
you have to learn how to say the word eh properly
everybody always puts emphasis on eh
and it shouldn't be that
it should just be a easy flow with the sentence
exactly and
when you use the word eh
it's just to add a question to something
so if you're asking a question we just put eh at the end
of it like if you meet me and you
find out I'm Canadian you can come up to me when we're
traveling and say oh so you're Canadian eh?
so let's do a little bit of a
breakdown of the words that you need
to know when you come to Canada
ok
Dave, What do Canadians call a backpack
a knapsack
ok what do we call a couch
a chesterfield
Chesterfield
what do we call the letter that comes after Y
Zed
what do we call underwear
gitch
it's true
well let's move on to something a little more
sensible ok do we have
Do we have any sense up here?
of course
sticking with the tradition of shortening things
when we go to the beer store
and we want to buy a case of beer what do we ask for
well we asked for a 2/4
because there's 24 beers in a case of beer
now most people call it a case or I
know in Australia they call it a flat a beer and they get a really good laugh
out of us calling it two four but that's just logical
if there's 24
beer I get a case of two four and I'm going to drink for the
weekend
and then you know what's even better is we have a long weekend at the
beginning of every summer that is a queen Victoria's birthday its Victoria Day
It's what the traditional name is called but Canada calls it
My 2-4 Weekend
we know that we pick up a 2/4 of beer
and then we go up to the cottage we
grab a Timmy's on the way because it's always a three-hour drive to the cottage
because everywhere you go in Canada is a long drive
and then we drink our beer
all May to for a weekend long
ok what's Timmy's
is our National
Coffee store yeah it's our coffeehouse
It's our really that like at
national source of pride
a Canadian icon started at hockey player Tim Horton
only do you need to know that it's called Timmy's but you have to know how
to order when you go
If you pull up to a drive-through Dave what do you order?
i order a large double-double
you're probably going what the heck is a large
double-double well it's a large coffee with two cream and two sugars
oh yeah
that's Canadian slang a large double-double
what's next Deb
I would say the next thing that Canadians
have a pet peeve with is when people say
to us
oh you're Canadian eh are you gonna go
oot and aboot
Canadians do not say and aboot
no that does not feel good on the ears
don't I'll ever say that
We say oat and a-boat
that's how we talk about it's more
back in the throat oat
you know and about is more like
a boat
not a boot
Not a boot you put on your foot
But a boat that you go rowing in
yeah that's
exactly it.
so it's aboat four o'clock
that's how we say it not it's a boot
four o'clock so let's hear everybody is said about four
I just said a boot
What do we call a small bottle of booze
a Mickey
375 mil
what do we call a brown-noser a
a keener
you're a keener
what do you call a guy's potbelly
why that's a Molson muscle
and why you
call it a molson muscle
well because we're very good at drinking beer
our beer is made by Molson
and hey it does a good job of
building up this muscle
they work very
yeah the men up here work really hard on that Molson Muscle
there's a little bit of pride there
now I thought the whole world knew that we called
our $1 coin a loonie
I thought so too.
but I was telling some people when we were in
Istanbul a couple months ago
and they were like you call your currency a loonie?
and this is what a loonie is people
it's our one dollar coin
Dave why do
Canadians call our one dollar coin a loonie?
well you know it's actually for
a really good reason because in Canada
as you know we're very practical it's
call things what they actually are
it's because on our loonie is an actual
picture of a loon.
a loon is a bird that goes, coo coo
Well, the call of the loon
So when you're sitting
on your deck
at your cottage consuming one of your two fours
Or perhaps
perhaps having a Timmy's
you can listen to the call of the Loon
oh I know one other thing.
okay
it's washroom
oh yes
that's what we
call our toilets up here it's not toilet it's not bathroom
It's not ladies room, it's not powder room
it's not water closet there's so many different names
it's actually washroom
yeah we call it a washroom
because you go in there you go to the washroom
and you wash your hands
we call trainers I guess or sneakers
or tennis shoes
runners
yeah any sort of athletic type shoes is called a runner up here
so you can run
in any type of athletics shoe
we're not we're not prejudiced against
what kind of shoes you wear no
we call it all the same
I call them running shoes
tat's what I personally calls them all my life
like I said I need a new pair of
running shoes
not sneakers I never ever called them sneakers
now we don't just have the loonie
Toonie came about just because
it sort of made sense and it rhymes with loonie
what do we call macaroni and cheese
that's KD
I don't think anybody who is not Canadian
will guess what this word means
are you ready
pogie
who knows what pogie means
you know it's not like a stick you jump on
it's not like uh uh the wiener on a stick
no, pogie is our um, slang term
it's a slang term for unemployment
or social assistance yeah
well no we don't call it
social assistance up here we call it unemployment
if you get laid off from work
It's pogie.
yeah, you go collect your pogie.
okay the next thing that is very
Canadian is something that we all wear
in the wintertime we wear something
called a tuque
what a tuque is, is it's a hat
it's usually a wool hat or
something very warm that comes down over your ears
and usually it has a pom-pom
on the top as well that's very very Canadian
and we call that a tuque so if
you're wondering what a tuque is,
it keeps your head warm and it's quite fashionable
and one final word
work on learning how to apologize
apologize to a
table if you run into it
apologize to a pole if you run into it
apologize to the person
that runs into you
that's what we do
we always say I'm sorry to everything
and that brings us to the end of the video
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