{"id":1258,"date":"2006-11-19T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-19T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltdrivebetty.com\/wyzwmnsworld\/?p=1258"},"modified":"2010-09-29T18:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T01:29:27","slug":"canadian-isms-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1258","title":{"rendered":"Canadian-isms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">On CBC Newsworld today Evan Solomon had a discussion <\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">about distinctly Canadian words.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">Not necessarily new words but could be<\/span> &#8211; <span style=\"font-size:130%;\">or words that we use in a different way. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">eg. Dr. Strangelove likes &#8220;two-four&#8221; to describe a case of beer. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">My Dad likes the word &#8220;sauce&#8221;<\/span> <span style=\"font-size:130%;\">as in &#8220;today is Grey Cup Day and I may get into the sauce.&#8221; <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">My favorite distinctly Canadian word is \u201cbush\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">as in \u201cwe went hiking in the bush looking for blueberries\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">everywhere else in the world they use \u201cwoods\u201d or \u201cforest\u201d we use \u201cbush\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">(not to be compared or used in any way shape or forum to that duffus in Washington)<\/p>\n<p>But in speaking of \u201csauce&#8221;<\/span> &#8230;.<br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">in ON people say that they are going to pick up a \u201cbox\u201d of beer and most Ontarionians think \u201ctwo-four\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\">but in BC when you suggest you\u2019ll bring a box of beer you friends may suggest that you bring more than one as a \u201cbox\u201d is 6 beer while a \u201ctwo-four\u201d is a \u201cflat\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet another reason for my sister to think the province is evil?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On CBC Newsworld today Evan Solomon had a discussion about distinctly Canadian words.Not necessarily new words but could be &#8211; or words that we use in a different way. eg. Dr. Strangelove likes &#8220;two-four&#8221; to describe a case of beer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/?p=1258\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5363,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258\/revisions\/5363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyzwmn9444.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}