Vancouver 101: Speaking Canadian
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The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, will be held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the resort town of Whistler nearby.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.
If you’re headed to BC for the Games, you might want to have a sit-down on the chesterfield with your double-double and learn ya some Canadian.*
BACHELOR: Studio apartment
CHESTERFIELD: Generic term for couch. Refers elsewhere to a specific leather style.
CLICK: Kilometer
DOUBLE-DOUBLE: A coffee with two creams and two sugars.
EH: a means of ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed.
HOMO MILK: Non-homogenized milk.
HYDRO: In some areas, refers generically to electrical power and power bills.
KETCHUP CHIPS: Basically potato chips covered with ketchup powder. They are very red, very messy, and, surprisingly, smell like ketchup.
LOONIE: One-dollar coin bearing the image on one side of a diving bird known in North America as the Common Loon.
POP: Common terms for soda
RUNNERS: Running shoes
TOONIE or TWOONIE: Two-dollar coin bearing the image on one side of a polar bear. Named as a play on Loonie and for its double-dollar denomination.
TRIPLE-TRIPLE: You guessed it, same as above plus one each.
TIMMIES: Shorthand for Tim Hortons, Canada’s answer to Starbucks and making its first foray into the United States.
TIMBITS: Doughnut holes at Tim Hortons.
TWO-FOUR OR TWOFER: A case of beer that contains 24 bottles.
TOQUE or TUQUE: Pronounced TOOK, a knit cap called a ski cap in the United States.
THAT’LL LEARN YA: Meaning, “That will teach you,” said in response to a stupid or non-fatal avoidable bad outcome.
ZED: The letter Z
*Not all Canadians agree on the language, definitions and spellings, and not all may use all expressions listed here all the time in all contexts in an all-joking or an all-earnest manner.
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