Calling all Canadians (and anyone else with a sense of humor)!!

[JohnnyV]

Found this post by Snaggy over at the Joy of Tech forums.

http://www.geekculture.com/ultimateb...ML/000223.html


Enjoy

[scruffy]

Heehee! All true. Except that they spelled toque wrong. How bout this:

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):

Toque \Toque\ (t[=o]k), n. [F. toque; of Celtic origin; cf. W. toc.]
1. A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in
modern fashions; -- called also {toquet}.

His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the
side of his head. --Motley.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.

From WordNet (r) 1.6:

toque
n : a small round hat worn by women [syn: {pillbox}, {turban}]

I know what's missing out of there, do you? Or did the Canadian-style toque really exist in the 16th C?

Do Americans really not have mickeys or 2-4s? What do they call them?

Here's a bit of trivia for you - in Saskatchewan, those hooded sweaters with the muff-like pocket on the front are called 'bunny hugs', but in every other province they're called 'hoodies'. Someone please correct me if there's somewhere else that shares this excentricity...

[googolplex]

Thats funny. Being Canadian I can say that some of those are very very true but some are really exagerated.

Good laugh

[Bluefusion]

So what is a "mickey" and a "2-4"?

[phatsharpie]

Originally posted by scruffy
Here's a bit of trivia for you - in Saskatchewan, those hooded sweaters with the muff-like pocket on the front are called 'bunny hugs', but in every other province they're called 'hoodies'. Someone please correct me if there's somewhere else that shares this excentricity...

At least among my friends in the US we call hooded sweatshirts, hoodies.

And for Mickeys, that's a beer my friends and I drank in college, but I don't know if that's what you meant...

[scruffy]

A mickey is a beer where you live? Hmm.

A 2-4 is a case of 24 bottles of beer (beer comes in sixpacks, cases, 2-4s, and those funny 18 bottle things), and a mickey is a 13 ounce bottle of liquor - personal serving size like. I don't know if the 26 or 40 ounce bottles have a name other than a twenty-six and a fourty.

Actually, since we pretend that we are metric over here, all the bottle sizes are given in mL now. We're even starting to get liquor bottles that have reasonable numbers, like 700 mL. Or maybe that's what wine bottles are. Beer bottles are still 341 mL, which seems stupi till you realize it's exactly 12 US ounces; then it seems even stupider...

[Jadey]

The Canadian English page explains 2-4's, pop, and all other little language differences between Canadian, British and American english. Funny little read.

[Bluefusion]

Jadey, great link! Thanks!

I still just don't understand "zed". I can go along with most Canadian pronunciation just fine (in fact, even though it's different, I think "aboot" and "hoase" actually sound better than "about" and "house"--maybe it's my Irish heritage kicking in) but "zed" is just wierd! Do you guys really say "Oh! Look! It's a BMZ zed-3!"? Or "and now, in American History, we'll be studying the XYZed affair."

LOL I don't know why but that pronunciation always strikes me as humorous. Eh?