As a Canadian, the bathroom vs washroom is very easy (at least where I am from it is). If you're in a public place, like a restaurant, you'd call it a washroom. But if you're in a private place, like a house, you'd call it a bathroom.
In Minnesota US I think I'm more apt to say "bathroom" at home and "restroom" in public. Sometimes I might use "washroom" for a room that's solely for laundry.
A parkade is above ground parking, a parking garage is underground parking, and a parking lot is just one ground level lot. That's my experience as an Albertan.
Hmm, I'm Albertan too and haven't ever heard parking garage. I agree a parking lot is a single-level parking area at the ground level only, and a parkade is a multi-level one above ground, for sure. But I think for a multi-level underground lot, I might call that an underground parkade.
@@Ultimita01 Yes, we're such a big country that there are definitely some regional differences. I love the regional differences in Canada. We're a wonderfully diverse nation. Go Argos! :)
As gen z I heard that the most or honestly I just call them dirties. I feel like most people my age are against smoking cigarettes rather than a vape per se.
English is my second language and I don't smoke but I feel like a dart is a half smoked cigarette/cigar/hand rolled tobacco. If I were smoking and a friend said "can I have a dark" I would give him/her my half finished cigarette, and if it was "can I have a cigarette" I would give him/her a new one.
Same here, I feel like the Canadian girl is just reaching to make a lengthier and interesting video. Half of the stuff she said, I’ve never heard in my life. In what province they use Parkade for parking lots, Serviette for napkins and runners for Sneakers? Even Quebecers don’t use these words when they speak English.
@@hershey5790It also depends where in Canada where she’s from though. In Manitoba, or at least in my experience, we do say “runners.” Only my grandparents say serviette though lol. But for a lot of these phrases, I don’t think they’re that regional. It varies from person to person because of both American and European influence. Personally, I say pencil crayons, zed, washrooms for public and bathrooms for homes. Parking lot for one level, parking garage for multiple. “Take” a test, runners, pop, napkins, cigarettes, firehall/fire department, 1 kilometre, couch, right/hey/eh interchangeably.
I've been binge watching videos from this channel for days now. Learned lots of stuff so far. Even though I consider myself fluent in English (Brazilian English teacher here), you can always learn some more. I wish I could participate in a channel like this and give my two cents as a Portuguese speaker on some stuff... It's so much fun!
In addition to “writing” a test in Canada, American teachers would typically “grade” the test afterward I’m told, whereas in my experience Canadian teachers would typically “mark” the test. A teacher in my experience might comment on having lots of “marking” to do. (This is from Canada’s west coast.)
In the US, our teachers would sometimes say something like "marking a grade" or occasionally just call a graded assignment or report card "marks". The only time I've heard "write" being used in a school scenario is if someone is "writing something off" or (like your last example) they have "a lot of writing to do" - which is rare.
Hi again 🙋♀️ 53 year old, in Southern Ontario. I've never heard of Parkade, I either say parking lot or car park, it depends on the size & location. At say a Walmart it's a parking lot, in a covered multi level parking area it's a parking garage or car park and if it's not covered predominantly meaning the top level as well as the walls aren't enclosed it's just a car park...maybe a parking lot if it's only say 2 or 3 levels...a little confusing 🤭😏 it just all depends
I'm from Ontario, Canada but I say parking garage, not parkade, running shoes, not runners, and sweater, not bunny hug. I think the terminology varies from person to person.
Parkade is a lot more common than you think. I never heard it before it turned up in a youtube video and then I saw it all over the place on the side of parking structures. Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, for example, has a parkade.
Both the USA and Canada have huge regional differences. I am from Michigan and we never used the word soda for pop. We are much closer to how they speak in Ontario and many Michiganders and other states like Minnesota etc use "eh' alot. That said - there is such huge differences between the US south, midwest, west and east that you just can't say 'this is how we say it in the US" and mean it generically. Same is true in Canada.
I’m from south Louisiana in the U.S. south and pop sounds foreign to our ears. You’d never hear it here. We say soft drink, cold drink or coke (even if it’s not a coca-cola). Also, soda is not common here.
@@IslenoGutierrez Understood. But up here in Toronto we say pop and sometimes soda or a soft drink or carbonated beverage but never coke. If you ask for a Coke at a fast food, they gonna ask tell you they either have Pepsi or Coke.
@@PunchBuggyDreams Calling it coke is something common down here in the U.S. south. You can come down here and someone might ask what kind of coke you want
@@IslenoGutierrez LOL!!!! That's hilarious cuz up here we just would simply say Diet, Zero or a regular Coke (Coca-Cola.) For us we use the term Coke to be the contracted version of Coca-Cola. Interesting. Now I know when visiting the beautiful south. Cheers!!
There are so many differences across Canada that you should do a video with a west coaster, mid and east coaster. We use parkade on the west coast, I've never heard of bunny hug (they are hoodies), napkin is definitely the norm but I know what a serviette is. Love these videos!
"east coaster" you're talking about 6 or more accents. Atlantic Canada isn't a monolith. We in no shape or form share an accent. The uniting bit is that we have older accents but they're all relatively different. The Irish/Scottish/English accents are both absolutely absent and ever present in different areas. Then you have to throw the Acadian influence into the mix. Ontario+ the west, have more in common linguistically than eastern Canada. Also Newfoundland is its own thing, with 20-40 accents.
Wow I actually never thought of a comparison between American and Canadian English. It's always American VS British that comes to mind. I didn't know there's so much difference in word usage even though they are neighbors. Thanks for the informative video!
As a Vancouver Canadian senior, many of the terms she described as very Canadian I’ve never heard…. Bunny hug??? She’s prob from Ontario where they often think of themselves as being representative for the whole country. They’re not!
I’m from the US. This was very interesting seeing what the differences were for each country. In America, we always use bathroom, but we will also use restroom too if we are acting formal. I think I found “clicks” and “chesterfield” to be the most surprising out of all.
“Click” is an American word, it was coined by and is used by the military. Our military uses metric (because of NATO) and “click” is the word they use instead of kilometer…that’s where the word comes from and also that’s where the Canadians picked it up. Listen for it next time you watch a war movie or an action film
🇨🇦 Not too many ‘eh’s’ heard here on the Canadian west coast. I never say washroom inside a home, it’s always bathroom. Sneakers is commonly said here. ‘Chesterfield’ is almost never heard, especially by those under 50. More likely we say couch, sometimes sofa. Never heard of ‘bunny hug’ but it’s cute.
@@gerardacronin334 That’s cute. My husband and I stayed at Room With a View in Kelowna. Wish Joel and Lia were coming to B.C. Maybe on one of their West Coast trips!
born in Vancouver and stayed here my whole life. I'm 17 and ive never heard anyone in my generation say "eh" once in my entire life. Always found it weird its a stereotype for Canadians.
Canadian here- my house has a "bathroom", because there is a bath in it. If I'm at a restaurant or something like that, it's a "washroom" because I would wash my hands there... And there in no bath.
As a French Canadien, for the serviette vs napkin I will use the two but a napkin is generally made in paper (the type you can have in fast-food) and a serviette is in tissue (at least for my relative). Serviette is the french word for towel (a bathroom towel or a beach towel).
Funny. It is the exact opposite for me as a 64 year old anglophone.. If I use serviette, which I don't use much anymore, it is always in reference to the paper napkins and the cloth ones are just napkins.
@@Thetruthhurts708 I don’t know what you mean by briefcase, but of what I’ve seen on Google picture it’s like a bag. Well this (💼) in french will be a « mallette ».
I'm from Ottawa but some of the things she says sound unusual to me. I've never heard of a parkade before. To me, it's a parking garage. And I've never heard "hey" at the end of a sentence.
@@kontiuka same though! And chesterfield also surprised me. I haven’t heard a single Canadian say it. Only time I really use “eh” is when I say “eh, congrats” or something similar.
As an American from the Midwest region, if the parking has multiple levels, it's called a parking structure. If not, it's a parking lot. If it's below ground, it's underground parking.
Canadians call below ground parking, “underground parking” as well. But I guess we have the cold in common as underground parkings are usually heated or with AC.
I am American but I lived in Montreal for 4 years while attending McGill. I have definitely kept a Canadian accent especially when I say house, out, about, roof, etc. I can't help it and I find it kind of interesting how strong and lasting an influence it was. Canada really is a beautiful country and I am honored I was able to live and study there.
I have never heard the term "bunny hug" before. I'm a Canadian however, when it comes to sweaters with hoods, I have only heard them being called a "hoodie" so of course that's what I call them too.
British/English English, from near Birmingham, we say: 0:33 coloured pencils, same as US. 0:55 zed, same as Canadian. 1:22 bathroom, US. 2:02 multi-storey carpark, or just a carpark. 2:34 a written test or exam. 2:55 I personally call those trainers. 3:15 fizzy pop, or just - a can of .... pepsi/coke etc. 3:47 tissue or usually serviette, I've heard some people say napkin. 4:27 cigarettes or smokes, or the F gay word is common slang. 4:59 fire station. 5:20 a/1 kilometre. US 6:04 a sofa or less commonly said is a settee or couch. US. I've never been able to hear a significant enough difference between Canadian and American accents. The main thing I've heard different is how Canadians pronounce the "ou" in their words, such as "about" - they say a-boat, I say a-baowt.
Canadian here from Surrey. We don't say about like boat here but like out, drought or spout, like how it's spelled. Americans say about like bow, cow, Mao or now, not like how it's spelled. That we say about like boat, coat, dote or wrote, is a common American misperception, no idea where they got that idea.
@@dutchgamer842 Well those shows are wrong lol. I was born and raised in Vancouver, lived in Ottawa, traveled to Alberta, Quebec and never heard anyone say 'aboot' before, maybe it's a Newfie thing or somethin' lol.
@@karllogan8809 Americans generally pronounce the diphthong represented by "ou" and "ow" the same way. It starts with an open vowel like 'apple' and rounds with a 'w'. Canadians sound different because I think they start with a vowel that sounds more like 'eh' vs. 'a' in apple. So, eh-oot vs. aa-oot. Some of you guys also say 'sorry' in a noticeably different way. We generally say something like sah-ree or sar-ee, yours can sound more like sor-ree.
@@karllogan8809 Actually for me I didn't get that from American shows etc, its more so from UA-camrs and the news. The Canadian Conservative leader Erin o'Toole I've heard him say "a-boot/boat", also a couple of UA-camrs spring to mind: 1) search - Guide to Canadian Political Parties (channel J.J. McCullough) at 1:32 he clearly says aboot. 2) search Washing The New Armoured Skin, Spark Plugs, Food Delivery To The Van | Big Thank You At 10:53 he says aboat. Though he does often pronounce it more like about. Suppose its similar to my local dialect of working class slang near Birmingham we sometimes say "abaat", but normally its about/abaowt.
As a Canadian, I always think of a serviette as a paper napkin whereas a napkin is made of cloth. I use washroom for a powder room and bathroom for a 3 or 4 piece bath. I do not use chesterfield, but my mom and grandparents did. And I pronounce foyer as foy-yay.
Wait a minute. As far as I know Canadians call the room they take a shower, bath, or use the toilet - in their own home - a "bathroom". We would call a public facility a "washroom" more often than a "restroom"( as Americans typically do).
Yeah, it’s been my experience that people only say “rest room” in fancy restaurants or hotels. We use bathroom for homes and washroom for public. It isn’t really even debatable. If you buy a house in Canada (which nobody can anymore), you aren’t told it has 2 (or how ever many) washrooms (even typing that felt weird) no it has 2 bathrooms.
I grew up in Michigan, so a soft drink is "pop". I almost never use the word "sofa"; to me, it's a couch, although I first learned it as "davenport". "Eh" seems to be common in northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin. When I served in the U.S. Army many decades ago, "click" was common slang for a kilometer. In my experience, most Americans pronounce "kilometer" with the stress on the second syllable while most Canadians put the stress on the third syllable.
I’m from south Louisiana in the southern U.S. and pop sounds foreign to our ears and sofa is our common word rather than couch. And you’re my countryman. Quite a large difference in the U.S.
All these terms & local expressions are becoming more & more mixed & variable - the world is so connected that all sorts of jargon is spreading. I'm from Montreal, and we don't always use some expressions that originate in provinces to the west of us. But we've _heard_ them; and we've heard all the American expressions, from media. So we don't even _notice_ if we're using our own local jargon, or find ourselves adopting terms from further afield. And my wife & I watch a lot of UK television; so we don't bat an eye at _those_ expressions, either! And for Canadians who are older, and/or have read English literature widely, all bets are off.
Actually, here (portion of the U.S.) a "chesterfield" sofa refers to a particular style of couch. - The style with buttoning on the backrest especially, but also both backrest and seat cushions
From Western Canada, but my Grandma was from Anglo-Quebec and grew up during the war. Chesterfield to me is the buttoned backrest/seat with non-plush arm rail, but to my grandma it was any multi-seat couch that had at least one raisable leg section, like a lay-z-boy. She had a Chesterfield, couch, love seat, and armchair in her living room...it was not very common to hear it outside of seniors when I was little.
@@lynnjasen9727 - That's like Kleenex, a trade name for a line of upholstered furniture made by the A.H. Davenport and Company of Massachusetts that became a generic name for a couch. Kind of like "La-Z-boy" for any upholstered recliner.
As someone from the UK, can confirm I've never heard the term 'parkade' until watching this video 😅 we just call it a car park. If it has multiple levels we might differentiate by calling it a multistorey, but it's still a car park. Also most people just call a bathroom a toilet, or more informally a 'loo'. We say bathroom as well but normally only when there's an actual shower/bath in it. Even then it's not used as often. Most people wouldn't say "where's the bathroom" if they're looking to use the toilet, for example. I've also never heard anyone call a sofa a "Chesterfield".. there is a town in England called Chesterfield though 😆 As for the other ones, we tend to say: coloured pencils; zed; do a test; trainers; fizzy drink; napkin and serviette are both used (I think serviette tends to be used more by like 50+ year olds); cigarettes/ciggies/cigs/fags (this is used a bit less now, prob bc people are aware of it being a slur in American English, but it's still used by a lot of people); fire station; kilometre.
I'm a Filipino-Canadian in Ontario, been all over the Greater Toronto Area since I moved here when I was four, and I currently live an hour east of downtown Toronto, and we say: "pencil crayons", "zed", "bathroom" at home and "washroom" for public places, "parkade" for multi-level parking spaces and "parking lot" for an open, roof-less parking area, "write/have a test", "running shoes", "pop", "serviette" or "napkin", "smokes", "fire station", "kilometer" or "click" (way more slangy), "couch", "eh" or "right", and finally, "hoodie." They should've had the word "toque" which I think Americans call beanies? Or winter hats?
Winter hats in the USA go by different names. In the south it is known as a toboggan (in reference to people wearing these hats when sledding on a toboggan.) The word beanie seems to have originated out of California and has really gone nation-wide. Before, a beanie was only known as a small child's hat, the kind with a propeller on the top. In the north, they appear more likely to use the word "sock hat" or "stocking cap"
@@IslenoGutierrez Canada is a massive country, it's the 2nd biggest in the world, and while the US is only slightly smaller, it's in large portions 50 times denser in population. The different subcultures are important. Canadian immigration is very different from the US's. While they had a massive influx of latino's, we had a massive number of Asian's come over. It means Asian culture is hugely important influence to the modern Canadian identity. Most people think of Canada and they imagine Suburban English kids. It's probably about 50% of the population but it's misleading to define us by that. Canada has the French thing, the first nations/natives thing, Asian immigrant culture in the big cities, then you have the ice wall people who live in the rural north, logging/minning, ice fishing in the winter etc. If you imagine the "average Canadian" you'll imagine the statistical majority but it's a very narrow majority. Something like only half the country speaks English as their only first language. About 1/4th speak french, and another 1/4th speak some other language. And the native Anglos are not at all a monolith. If you grew up in an Asian neighborhood you're gonna absorb the culture. If you grew up around natives/first nations you're gonna absorb the culture. If you grew up around french Canadian's you're gonna absorb the culture.
@@katethomas1519 But none of that is relevant to nationality. All this person had to say was I’m Canadian because most of those people you described are Canadians.
Canadian English is very much influenced by other countries without a doubt. Just as the Canadian girl mentioned, it does also depend on what part of Canada you're from, but I personally use so many interchangeable terms that Americans and Canadians would use. You would never catch me using the word serviette lol.
Same. I'm in Quebec and we don't use "serviette" (unless it`s for a real towel). Instead, we say "napkin" with a French accent when we want a napkin ("Peux-tu me donner un napkin s'il te plaît?").
True! That's true for any countries that share some language or territory, though. Though to my knowledge, parkade is actually a Canadian term; it's not from somewhere else - they call them car parks in the UK and Australia, so she's wrong to say it comes.from the UK. People sometimes forget that we can make up our own words too, it seems 😅
@@tudormiller887 No not all of us. I dropped French in high school bcz I had a hard time with it. So no, I hardly ever hear French spoken in Toronto and area.
English speaking Canadians use it informally the same way as the US military. Our military folks obviously use it that way too (heck my ex-Army dad uses "click" when speaking in his native French). I'm honestly not sure the habit started in the military and spread to the civilian world when we went metric in the 70s or if it was more universal. Heck, it is very possible that US troops picked up the habit from ours since our militaries have such close ties. I'm not sure if we vary in spelling (C vs K). Click is the norm up north.
If you’re from a farming community the late meal is usually called supper. To further confuse things when harvest workers were being fed in the middle of the day it was called dinner. Also bunny hug is usually a younger generation term. People who grew up in 60s & 70s called them kangaroos because of the pockets on the front. Now most people call them hoodies.
I’m Japanese. I used to study in Canada more than 10 years ago, and I live in the US now. The word washroom sometimes slips out of my mouth instead of bathroom. It’s a lingering trace of the days I spent in Canada, and it always brings me back good old memories.
I always love Christina, and Sydney is great in the videos. Most of my knowledge of Canada comes from old episodes of South Park (The 'French Canada' song, and the "I'm not your friend, buddy. I'm not your buddy, friend." skit). I guess there are feuds between different regions of Canada? In the US there's "pop", "soda", and in some parts "coke". "Hey, can you get me a coke?", "Sure, what kind". Another term I have yet to come across on this channel's videos is "water closet", or "WC". I grew up with bathroom, restroom, and latrine (Army), but we used "WC" for water closet while amongst the natives in the middle east.
WC (pronounced VC in French) is used in French-speaking countries. Seeing your last name makes me think you’re more on the French side. I never heard English Canadians use the term “WC” or “watercloset” though I know it through French and UK English.
Yeah, there are some regional differences! Though I dunno if I'd call them feuds, haha. Honestly, South Park makes me feel complimented as a Canadian. It might sound funny but if someone can make fun of you well, it's almost a compliment cos it shows they get you. South Park does, haha. That buddy/pal thing is bang-on in particular. We often use "buddy" to refer to someone who's annoyed us. Like "Buddy over here just cut me off, what's he smoking?"
We say going to the VC in Croatia, too. It might be WC in spelling, but we pronounce it "V" "C" for some reason. I never knew it stood for water closet (you learn something new every day!!).
@@johnbatinovic6593 The V, W, and F are pronounced differently between Europe and America. I'm sure the Germans cringe when someone from the U.S. pronounces the name Volkswagen.
As a French-Canadian from Québec, to me it seems like we're taught English more like Americans cause I frankly recognized more of the American terms than Canadian ones...also I was taught zee for the alphabet, not zed. That fact is kind of weirding me out
@@lalitar626 saying zed doesn't weird me out. What I said weirds me out is the fact that I was taught to say zee in English when this video claims in Canada we say zed in English.
As a British person, I would say "coloured pencils", but I would understand what you meant if you said "pencil crayons". In the UK we say "car park" for the place where you can park your car. A multistorey building for parking your car is a "multistorey car park". Concerning serviettes/napkins, I would tend to say "napkin" for a cloth napkin, but "serviette" for a disposable paper serviette. A common informal word for cigarettes in the UK is "fags" (yes, we know this is a derogatory term in the US). "Chesterfield" is not very British. We would say "settee" or "sofa". Chesterfield is a town in Derbyshire, south of Sheffield, and famous for its church with a twisted spire.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Thank you man we love the French too :). A lot of the English language was adapted from French (as well as Latin, Dutch, and some Afrikaans). You only have to look at certain words like "Serviette" or even "Colour" they are even almost pronounced the same.
@@TrueidiotGames English has borrowed words from very many languages, not just the ones you listed. Arabic, Persian and various Indian languages also feature prominently (algebra, alkali, khaki, pyjamas, bungalow etc).
The Midwest, particularly the northern parts bridging Canada, you find many people sounding similar to Canadians and using many of their terms, most notably “pop”.
I'm a non-native speaker and I have trouble telling if a person is from the U.S. or Canada by their accent. I just figured a lot of the English words I learned at school were American and lotta Canadian words are new for me. Thank you for the input!
I’m from the southern U.S. and in my estimation of Canadian accents, I find them to use words like lot, not and got to rhyme with the word thought, similarly to how England uses those words (likely from British influence). Also, the word “about” they make it sound something like “a boat” and of course saying ay/eh. I’m generalizing to what I’ve heard, there may be Canadian dialects that don’t use these features. Otherwise the accents themselves depending on the region, do sound something like certain American accents like either from Minnesota and Wisconsin, California accents or certain east coast accents in the U.S. or even like a mix of any of these three. For the most part they do sound a lot like American accents to the point where people not from the U.S. may not be able to tell them apart.
americans and canadians have trouble telling each other apart - there are dialects that are distinguishable - but standard american and standard canadian are almost exactly alike - except for the pronunciation of certain words - which except for "zee/zed" wasn't discussed here - and a few extra vocabulary items in canadian usually inherited from the UK
@@IslenoGutierrezlmao I'm Canadian and I just read "not" "thought" and "lot" out loud and they rhyme. I wonder how they're supposed to sound different 😅
@@geoplanetaire In my state of Louisiana here in the southern U.S., they dont rhyme. “Not” and “lot” rhyme with “sock” and “thought” rhymes with “sought”. But overall, Canadian accents sound very similar to certain American accents with very minor differences.
The Canadian doesn't have a Canadian accent. Large parts of Canada have no accent. And as a general rule if you went to university you lost whatever accent you had growing up(this happens all around the world)
I'm Canadian and I say pencil crayon (but I've heard coloured pencil), zed, bathroom (but I have heard washroom and sometimes restroom), parking garage, having/writing/taking a test, runners or sneakers (runners are more for hiking or sports, and sneakers are more casual, for example, "new balance" shoes are runners and "converse" shoes are sneakers), pop (I have heard soda or soda pop), napkin (I've never heard "serviette"), cigarette (but I've heard smokes or cigs, and I've never heard ciggies), fire department (but I've heard fire station, firehall, or firehouse), I've heard clicks but I say kilometer, couch (but I've heard sofa, never heard "chesterfield), right ("eh" is more like saying "am I right or am I right" or confirming what you're pretty sure you know), hoodie (I've never heard bunny hug, but I kind of love it 😂)
Here in France 🟦⬜🟥 , we say : "crayon de couleur"➡️ color pencil/pencil crayon "serviette" is a French word The letter "Z" we also pronunce 🔊 [zed] in French. I do think its a French influence Canada had British and French influences but mostly Brits. Afterall 🇬🇧🇫🇷 colonised 🇨🇦 and other parts of Nort America like Québec 🇲🇶 (They prefer speaking French over English) Long live the English and French Speakers ! This Channel is getting really interesting Christina and Sidney both beautiful young ladies. I've fallen in love with those two ❤️♥️
Here in New Zealand we use the word Serviette and Napkin - but I think it is more with with personal choice. I use serviette more than napkin myself. I have never heard it called a coloured crayon before.
Au Québec on dit des crayons de cire, les crayons de couleur ce sont ceux en bois! Pour serviette on dit napkin en général, sinon on dit serviette de table lorsqu’il s’agit d’une réelle serviette!
As a Canadian, I have NEVER heard of anyone but one AMERICAN SHOW call a BATHROOM a WASHROOM!!! Here are some more things I have NEVER heard of: Parkade, runners, serviette???, firehall, a click, chesterfield, "we're having chicken for dinner 'hey'", and bunny hug. Maybe Kitchener, Ontario is just less into the Canadian specific slang? I found it surprising they didn't mention a toque though.
I once worked with an associate from Nova Scotia and she said "In our company we use a lot of acronyms" and I replied "Yeah, but in Canada all the acronyms end in 'eh'." That was my finest hour.
My favourite similar joke - I moved from Canada to Australia, and got my Aussie citizenship recently. I've had a few friends joke I'll have to start talking like a proper Aussie now, and I'm like, "Yeah, I'll have to start saying g'day" and they're like "yeah!" and then I go "but since I'm a dual citizen, I'll have to say 'g'day, eh?" 😛 It always makes them crack up!
Bathroom, washroom, restroom, loo, the bog, the head, the biffy, are all terms I've heard and used myself here in Canada 🇨🇦! I'm surprised that didn't cover the differences in the spelling of words between Canada and the United States.
@@Imaworldstar-jw3yj I'm sorry, I didn't see your comment until now. How is your English language study going? If you were serious, I can try and help you with things that you're having trouble with in your studies. I hope that you're doing well and that you're happy today.
Yeah it's always disappointing when the Americans they use in videos like these always have that Cali accent ( ik Christina is from Boston but she sounds more like someone from Cali) it's just annoying cause most of us at least where I'm from don't sound like that
@@castlecorn593 One question have a ever met anyone from Vermont, I am from Vermont and I get where in New York are you from all the time aka 90% of the time, get asked that is from people who were born and raised in Vermont.
"Parkade" is mostly a Western Canada thing. In another video, the Canadian girl said that her "home university" was the University of Saskatchewan, so it makes sense that she would be familiar with "parkade".
@@JohnnyLovesPuppies Canada has a small spread out population. And therefore the Universities are very spread out. It's very very common that if you have a specific academic interest you can end up anywhere in the country. Obviously something similar happens in the US but again because we have so few cities and are so rural we don't have the same options.
To my fellow Canadians who say they've never heard of a parkade, try searching for 'Parkades in (name of your province)'. It's a pretty common term - you just never noticed it before.
@@michaelmarkowski204 Same here. I never, ever say any words that sound even remotely British. I say parking garage i.e. underground parking garage or parking lot.
tuque vs beanie is a more subtle but strong distinction between canada and the states. it took me until my 20s to realize that when americans say beanie what they're talking about is a knit hat. nobody says that word here so my only reference(and the thing that still automatically comes to mind) was the propeller beanie from the Calvin and Hobbes comics. eh is also used to ask for clarification sometimes, for example if you say something to me and i don't quite hear you or understand you i might respond with "eh?" with the assumption you will repeat yourself when you hear that.
According to my American relatives, saying 'figure it out' is a Canadianism, I mean we say it all the time but as far as I know Americans still understand the phrase. Additionally 'emerge' as a term for the emergency room at a hospital is apparently a Canadianism, whereas Americans would just say E.R. - which is also occasionally used in Canada
That is fascinating about the phrases. I'm from Nova Scotia and yeah..... those are common here. I thought they were used in all of North America. Now I'm wondering what other phrases, might be common in Canada, but not elsewhere. 🤔 Anyone from outside Canada that might have some insights?
Sydney was the most accurate, when she said, we Canadians, take influence from the UK and the US. Have an English on this panel, and you'll see we're right down the middle. Never heard of Bunny Hug, must've stayed in SK ;)
Canadian English is almost exactly the same as American English and nothing like the UK. Canadians are very delusional to believe that they are more European than the USA, more "cultured". It is funny and kinda annoying.
@@aod2026 On the East Coast, we have had far more 'European' influence than the Rest of Canada. But we are so small (about 8-10% of the total population), that everyone in RoC forgets that we are here. Acadian French is distinctly old style French, along the South Shore of NS you would think you are in colonial Boston, Cape Breton is old French to the west/ Scots english to the east, and Newfoundland..........🤔 So... NO.....Canadian English is Not Exactly the same as American English. Similar.... yes, but some vocabulary, and definitely the cadence is different.
@@aod2026 From spelling to pronunciation to slangs, Canadian English is very different than American English. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@dougwilson4537 Canada is an Immigrant country with people from all around the world. Stop glorifying the "European Influence" which was basicly a colonisation of the land and murdering of it native people. It is something that you should be ashamed of.. not proud! And if you still think you are like a European or something. Try and travel to Europe. you will see you are nothing like them..
The UK doesn’t say parkade- it's car park. The UK also rarely says bathroom- it's toilet something no Canadian, myself included, ever says. I live in England so I'm forced to say toilet. Canada is also highly influenced by French Canada- not an influence at all for US.
I bursted out laughing when Christina said parking parade! As an American, it was my first time hearing the term parkade as well. In the previous video, I guessed that Sydney was from Quebec because she speaks French but in this video, she said she's from the west side. Which makes me think she's from either BC or Alberta. Also, in the US, you won't have to worry about measuring things in kilometers since the US measures distance in miles. If you were to mention km to the average American, he/she would be confused and you would definitely make it obvious that you're not from the US as the average American doesn't know how to measure distance in km. The pop/soda debate is definitely regional in the US. I've lived in the east coast, the west coast, and the Midwest of the US and what you hear from people depends on which state you're in. One other difference I want to point out when comparing American English to Canadian English is words that end in "-er" vs "-re" and "-or" vs "-our." The words "theater" and "center" are spelled "theatre" and "centre" in Canada. "Color" is spelled "colour" in Canada.
I believe Sydney is from BC because she also referenced her friends from Central Canada's prairies using clicks. Plus, her accent is more general West Coast, very similar to California.
Yep... You yanks invert your re's and drop essential u's. 🤣 The one Americanism in English that actually does raise my ire is dropping -ly on adverbs. (e.g. saying "Drive safe" instead of "Drive safely")
Sydney doesn't sound like a Quebecker. Both French Canadians and Anglo-Quebeckers have a distinctive accent, although the latter is harder to distinguish from an English speaking Canadian from further west unless you are familiar with it. My own English accent is predominantly Anglo-Quebecker (mixed Montreal and Quebec City) with eastern Ontarian influences. My vocabulary is noticeably more Brit, Canadian French and New England influenced than say, a southern Ontarian and my grammar has more Brit and Canadian French influences. Sydney's got a very clean Canadian Standard accent typical of well educated folks from BC to Ontario. My first guess would be that she's from BC since her speech reminds me of folks from Vancouver that I know but I could be wrong there. Simple population numbers make BC/Alta highly likely if she's from west of Ontario. Given that she and the other folks on here seem to be language teachers, she's probably just got a knack for languages and was lucky enough to have some good French second language teachers in school. It's standard for Canadians to learn their non-native official language as a second language in school (but the quality of that education sadly varies a fair bit), so English-speaking kids learn some French and vice versa. Some kids in more bilingual areas (the Montreal and Ottawa areas especially) have access to genuinely bilingual education and take about half their courses in one language and the other half in the other (not unusual in eastern Ontario and western Quebec). With the kilometer/kilometre thing, they were obviously fishing for the use of the colloquial term "clicks" but I've also noticed that some Americans stress the syllables of the word a bit differently (which alters the vowel sounds a bit). The pop/soda thing is also regional in Canada, although pop is very common from Ontario westwards. Anglo-Quebeckers tend to say "soft drink" more than "soda" and rarely ever say "pop". Much like the US, it's a big country and we've got some regional variation (Atlantic Canada is a whole different kettle of fish from the rest of the country, both in its English and French dialects). Canadian standard spelling kind of splits the difference between the US and the UK. We do use -re and -our, along with other Brit style stuff like using C rather than S in words like defence, but we do share American spellings on other words like tire or connection (vs. connexion... although I think both are acceptable). Honestly, most of us alternate back and forth between US and UK spelling norms without even noticing that we do it. I'm fairly certain that I spell defence/defense both ways all the time without noticing.
From Nova Scotia & never heard of pencil crayons. Always been coloured pencils around here. Also, usually called a bathroom with whoever I've talked with (washroom mostly, if it's a public facility, though). Always used sneakers, never called them runners. Maybe central Canadians say serviette, the actual east coast calls them napkins.
Hey, some of my ancestors were from Nova Scotia, about 270 years ago! I’m from south Louisiana and some of my ancestors were French-speaking Acadians that were exiled by the British and wound up in south Louisiana where they were known as “Cajuns” (or in French “Cadjins”- cah-jan).
I've also heard couches or sofas called davenports in Wisconsin. We say soda, soda pop, or pop here. We usually use the word office for bathroom. Typical conversation would be: "Yeah, I'm gonna go to the office now and take care of a few things." "Eh, be a lamb and light a candle while you're in there." "Yeah, whatever." On a related topic, we have been accused of drinking too much in Wisconsin. Could be. Maybe that's why Canada let the US keep us, more headaches than they wanted to deal with.
In NZ, we would say eh all the time (much more the Canadians), crayons, zed, bathroom (public, cloakroom), parking building, take a test, sneakers, fizzy drink, napkin (definitely not serviette), cigarettes, fire station, kliometer (klick is Australian), sofa, eh, swannie.
Well, we usually 'take' a test, 😁 so it would have to be placed first, before we took it. (sorry 😊) Seriously though - I would say that the person would either 'set the questions/test', or 'make(up) the test/exam'. I don't think there is any preference for one way to say it over the other, and any difference might be regional. Myself, I would probably say, that I have to set an exam/test.
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I live just one province over from Saskatchewan, and I've never heard anyone refer to a hoodie as a "bunny hug". That's cute, but I'm guessing it's also extremely regional :)
I love watching these kinds of videos. I'm from Toronto so it's fun and funny hearing how people from other parts of Canada pronounce words. I totally agree that influence is such a major thing. Based on how I grew up, I definitely speak more like Christina- except for pencil crayon, it has to be pencil crayon!!
"Parkade" is relatively new. Parking lot refers to street level parking. In Canada we say "write a test" if in fact it is written but we "take a road test". I grew up believing "napkin" was more American but acceptable, "serviette" being preferrable. A chesterfield does not have cushions, it's like a single mattress surface for sitting. A couch has cushions marking a spot to sit while "sofa" is more generic.
In the part of the US where i'm from we don't use soda or pop, we use "coke" for all carbonated beverages. Which means a Pepsi is a coke. We don't use the term "sneakers" either, we call them "tennis shoes". I'm pretty sure most Americans use "colored pencils" instead of just "color pencils"
Wow.. these terms certainly depend on where you live. I'm from the west coast of the US and I've never heard someone call sneakers tennis shoes. Interesting ^-^
Older generations in New England say TONIC instead of soda. I might switch it up between tonic and soda, but my father definitely says tonic. He also says "wastepaper basket" and "bahhhhthroom" Oh and parlor is a room in the house
There is a part of me that can't wait till I go back to work just so I can say to some coworkers "That's a nice bunny hug you're wearing." :) ... yes, I'm that guy. lol
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It's ironic that the Canadian girl would say restroom to sound more refined, when restroom is typically the lowest standard type of bathroom with just toilets that you go to at a gas station, airport, bar etc. Basically it's the least refined type of bathroom.
Anglo from Montreal. Coloured Pencil is either a Pencil Crayon or coloured pencil. Pronounce it as Zed, Bathroom, washroom or Salle de Bain, parking. Parking lot or Parking garage, maybe stationnement in casual context. N pot find some stationnement eh” never even heard of Parkade. Have or take a test. Runners or running shoes. Never sneakers. Soft drink, never soda or pop. My husband says pop. Napkin or serviette. More often napkin. Cigarettes or smokes. Fire station. Never fire hall. 1 kilometre or a click. We say click more. Couch, or sofa. never chesterfield. Right, but eh far far more often. Eh is used a LOT.hoodie, never heard of a bunny hug. Love it though.
I think everyone used to say "soda pop" way back when (I remember it), and then when everyone inevitably shortened it, they chose a different word to drop. :)
In the US, in the south they tend to use Soda, in the north they tend to use pop. In the central region between north and south, soda pop, pop or soda will be used interchangeable and around cities like Atlanta where the Coca-Cola bottling plant is, Coke is used to describe all carbonated beverages regardless of whether it is Coke, or or made by the Coca-Cola company, or not.
I'm from southern Ontario and here's my prefrences: 1: Yeah, I definitely would call this a pencil crayon I've only heard a couple colour pencils 2: I call this one "zee" I remember in kindergarden learning it as "zed" but it sounded weird so I use "zee". 3: It kind of depends so I'd say 50/50 4: I've never heard parking garage nor parkade. I use parking lot. 5: This one's also 50/50 6: Yet ANOTHER 50/50 (I'm quite indecisive lol). 7: I use pop most of the time but also sometimes soda. 8: Napkin. Although a ton of people say serviette. 9: Cigarette. Never heard of smokes before. 10: Firestation. 11: Kilometre 12: CHESTERFIELD?? That's new to me. I use sofa or couch. 13: I've only used "eh" a couple of times. I use "right". I was really shocked by chesterfield even though I'm supposed to do one from the US.
They say pop in the US as well. More so in the north. Soda pop is also used. In Georgia a lot of people say Coke. I guess because it was invented there.
@@binhnham2512 I live in Georgia, and we say "Coke" really for only colas, not Sprite, Mountain Dew, or orange soda. Coke/Pepsi/RC can be called -----> Coke Sprite ------------------------------------------> Sprite Mountain Dew ----------------------------> Mountain Dew/Dew Orange Crush------------------------------> Crush/Orange Crush/Orange Soda If referring to all "sodas", traditionally we mostly said "soft drink", but as the word soda took hold in the media and as more people from outside the south moved here, you started to hear "soda" a lot. That said, "orange soda" or "soda fountain" was always common.
The slang term "Klick" for Kilometer was first coined by US soldiers in Vietnam and is still used by the US armed forces today. Things may have changed or evolved since...
🙋♀️🇨🇦 I'm a 53 year old Canadian in Southern Ontario and "Z" is pronounced both ways here with a strong leaning towards "zee" from the American influence especially on the younger generations. I typically find that people over 45 tend to "zed" more often than "zee" It absolutely is from our former strong British ties being a former British colony of sorts. It also depends where in Canada you are, for instance down East they still have stronger British influence in their language then other areas across Canada. We have a lot of similarities with the British, such as being passive aggressive, having self depreciating sense of humor, being polite & considerate. We are fairly good at queuing but not quite as well as the British 😏😉 Just in my lifetime I've seen the changes. When I was a very young child we had between 3 to 5 TV stations that we could get in on our TV with good weather and good signals...then Cable TV came out and we suddenly had 6 channels all the time...well not all the time as the channels shut down around 11pm - 12am and turned back on around 5am - 6am. Back in the 70's & early 80's we still had a predominately strong British influence on our language, spelling, humour, slang words & phrases etc With the advent & growth of cable TV we started watching American TV programs to the point where the majority of the television channels available in any "cable" TV package the majority of them are American. So children born in & after the 80's have always had a strong American influence in their lives without ever really realizing it. Again it depends on where in the country you live. As the Atlantic Province's still have a strong British influence that's uniquely theirs. Obviously Quebec is the odd one out being the "French" Province...🤭 I hope you find this helpful if not a little interesting
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Canadian here from Surrey. I say zee, not zed. I say fire department or station, not hall. My grandma's generation said chesterfield and serviette, but we just say couch/sofa and napkin. Other than that, same as Sydney. Oh one last one, I've heard some Canadians use 'kangaroo jacket' instead of hoodie or 'bunny hug', don't ask me shrugs Apparently Canadians like coming up with weird terms for hoodies.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 no, firehouse is where the firemen and firewomen live and work. My uncle's a firemen and I've always heard them call it that.
Zee is just simply incorrect. Everywhere in Canada it is supposed to be zed. People just take their own free will and ignore how the English language is so a song can rhyme.
It's been more than 15 years since I quit working for Sears and Home Depot. I have delivered thousands of Couches, Love seats, recliners and all kinds of appliances all over Southwestern Ontario and never heard the word Chesterfield!.
Parcade? I'm born and raised in Ottawa and I've never heard that word to describe what we call a parking garage or a parking lot. Provincial differences for sure. 😁
As a Canadian, the bathroom vs washroom is very easy (at least where I am from it is). If you're in a public place, like a restaurant, you'd call it a washroom. But if you're in a private place, like a house, you'd call it a bathroom.
In Minnesota US I think I'm more apt to say "bathroom" at home and "restroom" in public. Sometimes I might use "washroom" for a room that's solely for laundry.
That's us but In a public place we would say "Restroom' and at home we would say "Bathroom"
That's how I've always understood it lol. From Ontario here and that's always been what I've heard
In Canada in like malls they call it restrooms
Do you Canadians also say restroom?
A parkade is above ground parking, a parking garage is underground parking, and a parking lot is just one ground level lot. That's my experience as an Albertan.
Hmm, I'm Albertan too and haven't ever heard parking garage. I agree a parking lot is a single-level parking area at the ground level only, and a parkade is a multi-level one above ground, for sure. But I think for a multi-level underground lot, I might call that an underground parkade.
I'm originally from Toronto, now on the east coast and I've never used parcade. It's a parking garage.
@@timfox9688 im from sask and we all say parkade. Maybe its a western canada thing. I never heard of parking garage until this video
@@Ultimita01 Yes, we're such a big country that there are definitely some regional differences. I love the regional differences in Canada. We're a wonderfully diverse nation. Go Argos! :)
Garage is usually enclosed
In some areas in Canada, cigarettes are called "darts." Also, klicks can stand for kilometers of distance, or for a speed in kilometers per hour.
As gen z I heard that the most or honestly I just call them dirties. I feel like most people my age are against smoking cigarettes rather than a vape per se.
I hear dart for handrolled cigarettes with only tobacco.
dart is a slang here in ontario, but i'd still say cigarettes at the store
English is my second language and I don't smoke but I feel like a dart is a half smoked cigarette/cigar/hand rolled tobacco. If I were smoking and a friend said "can I have a dark" I would give him/her my half finished cigarette, and if it was "can I have a cigarette" I would give him/her a new one.
I have lived in Ontario, Canada for 71 years. If I am describing how fast I was travelling, I would say, "Although it was 100 K, I was doing 120 K."
As a French Canadian, apparently I learned American English because the American version almost always came to mind first
Same for me. Never heard "parkade"
same omg
Same here, I feel like the Canadian girl is just reaching to make a lengthier and interesting video. Half of the stuff she said, I’ve never heard in my life. In what province they use Parkade for parking lots, Serviette for napkins and runners for Sneakers? Even Quebecers don’t use these words when they speak English.
@@hershey5790 I agree with all of you. I'm from Montreal.
@@hershey5790It also depends where in Canada where she’s from though. In Manitoba, or at least in my experience, we do say “runners.” Only my grandparents say serviette though lol.
But for a lot of these phrases, I don’t think they’re that regional. It varies from person to person because of both American and European influence.
Personally, I say pencil crayons, zed, washrooms for public and bathrooms for homes. Parking lot for one level, parking garage for multiple. “Take” a test, runners, pop, napkins, cigarettes, firehall/fire department, 1 kilometre, couch, right/hey/eh interchangeably.
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I wish I could participate in a channel like this and give my two cents as a Portuguese speaker on some stuff... It's so much fun!
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@@Eris370 acasalar, algo nesse sentido
As a Canadian I’ve never heard anyone say “chesterfield”
Me too, nor have I heard “serviette” but I might have heard “parkade”
That term I think was used more back in earlier days. I parents said that.
It was used a lot more in the 70s or earlier.
That`s because you live in a place without those city names in the area or near you, Like peterborough in Ontario or middlesborough
@@202adr ontario has a Chesterfield according to Google maps. Not surprised it has London, Paris, Athens, Warsaw, Moscow .. you name it ..
In addition to “writing” a test in Canada, American teachers would typically “grade” the test afterward I’m told, whereas in my experience Canadian teachers would typically “mark” the test. A teacher in my experience might comment on having lots of “marking” to do. (This is from Canada’s west coast.)
I'm in Ontario, and teachers also say "mark."
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quebecers are mostly bilingual so we say "do an exam" because in french we say "faire un examen".
@@J_Désy You mean anglophone Quebecers.
In the US, our teachers would sometimes say something like "marking a grade" or occasionally just call a graded assignment or report card "marks". The only time I've heard "write" being used in a school scenario is if someone is "writing something off" or (like your last example) they have "a lot of writing to do" - which is rare.
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Me too
Some things were incorrect. A Chesterfield is not a word for a sofa in the UK 😂
We don't use Parkade in the UK either 🤷
Hi again 🙋♀️ 53 year old, in Southern Ontario. I've never heard of Parkade, I either say parking lot or car park, it depends on the size & location. At say a Walmart it's a parking lot, in a covered multi level parking area it's a parking garage or car park and if it's not covered predominantly meaning the top level as well as the walls aren't enclosed it's just a car park...maybe a parking lot if it's only say 2 or 3 levels...a little confusing 🤭😏 it just all depends
I'm from Ontario, Canada but I say parking garage, not parkade, running shoes, not runners, and sweater, not bunny hug. I think the terminology varies from person to person.
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I live in Ontario as well and use the same words you do. So I think it's safe to say there are regional differences in Canada.
same parking lot/garage and sweater and running shoes i noticed sydney is from vancouver? i think she said that that's diggerent for sure from ontario
Yeah in Quebec it’s the same thing, the words she uses are probably a western Canada thing.
Parkade is a lot more common than you think. I never heard it before it turned up in a youtube video and then I saw it all over the place on the side of parking structures. Yorkdale Shopping Centre in Toronto, for example, has a parkade.
I’m Canadian but this video is making me feel like an American. I apparently talk more like an American than I do a Canadian.
same
In my state we use pop, smokes... i've never once heard "ciggies". Is that a west coast thing, maybe?
If you're from Toronto you're a lot more Americanized than the rest of Canada
@@000snow000 I was born in New Brunswick and raised in Alberta
@@000snow000 same with BC atleast the lower mainland
Both the USA and Canada have huge regional differences. I am from Michigan and we never used the word soda for pop. We are much closer to how they speak in Ontario and many Michiganders and other states like Minnesota etc use "eh' alot. That said - there is such huge differences between the US south, midwest, west and east that you just can't say 'this is how we say it in the US" and mean it generically. Same is true in Canada.
I agree. I really dislike it when they say this is how WE say it. You can't generalize for sure.
I’m from south Louisiana in the U.S. south and pop sounds foreign to our ears. You’d never hear it here. We say soft drink, cold drink or coke (even if it’s not a coca-cola). Also, soda is not common here.
@@IslenoGutierrez Understood. But up here in Toronto we say pop and sometimes soda or a soft drink or carbonated beverage but never coke. If you ask for a Coke at a fast food, they gonna ask tell you they either have Pepsi or Coke.
@@PunchBuggyDreams Calling it coke is something common down here in the U.S. south. You can come down here and someone might ask what kind of coke you want
@@IslenoGutierrez LOL!!!! That's hilarious cuz up here we just would simply say Diet, Zero or a regular Coke (Coca-Cola.) For us we use the term Coke to be the contracted version of Coca-Cola. Interesting. Now I know when visiting the beautiful south. Cheers!!
There are so many differences across Canada that you should do a video with a west coaster, mid and east coaster. We use parkade on the west coast, I've never heard of bunny hug (they are hoodies), napkin is definitely the norm but I know what a serviette is. Love these videos!
I'm from N.B. originally. I might use "serviette" if I'm speaking French, but would be more likely to say "napkin" in both languages.
"east coaster" you're talking about 6 or more accents. Atlantic Canada isn't a monolith. We in no shape or form share an accent. The uniting bit is that we have older accents but they're all relatively different. The Irish/Scottish/English accents are both absolutely absent and ever present in different areas. Then you have to throw the Acadian influence into the mix. Ontario+ the west, have more in common linguistically than eastern Canada. Also Newfoundland is its own thing, with 20-40 accents.
My dad from bc always said kangaroo for hoodie :)
Wow I actually never thought of a comparison between American and Canadian English. It's always American VS British that comes to mind. I didn't know there's so much difference in word usage even though they are neighbors. Thanks for the informative video!
Even what you just wrote there's a difference
Canadians would spell it Neighbours
As a Vancouver Canadian senior, many of the terms she described as very Canadian I’ve never heard…. Bunny hug??? She’s prob from Ontario where they often think of themselves as being representative for the whole country. They’re not!
@@07Giddyup she actually mentioned that it's from SK, but I get that you're a senior from the VAN CITY
I’m from the US. This was very interesting seeing what the differences were for each country. In America, we always use bathroom, but we will also use restroom too if we are acting formal. I think I found “clicks” and “chesterfield” to be the most surprising out of all.
“Click” is an American word, it was coined by and is used by the military. Our military uses metric (because of NATO) and “click” is the word they use instead of kilometer…that’s where the word comes from and also that’s where the Canadians picked it up. Listen for it next time you watch a war movie or an action film
Don’t forget we also say ladies room.
Clicks is a bit rare, but nobody says chesterfield.
🇨🇦 Not too many ‘eh’s’ heard here on the Canadian west coast. I never say washroom inside a home, it’s always bathroom. Sneakers is commonly said here. ‘Chesterfield’ is almost never heard, especially by those under 50. More likely we say couch, sometimes sofa. Never heard of ‘bunny hug’ but it’s cute.
There is a B&B in Kelowna, BC called the Chesterfield Inn. There is a large chesterfield on the lawn.
@@gerardacronin334 That’s cute. My husband and I stayed at Room With a View in Kelowna. Wish Joel and Lia were coming to B.C. Maybe on one of their West Coast trips!
born in Vancouver and stayed here my whole life. I'm 17 and ive never heard anyone in my generation say "eh" once in my entire life. Always found it weird its a stereotype for Canadians.
I say 'eh' frequently I never noticed till an American friend mentioned it
I live in Canada and I've never heard of a parkade
Canadian here- my house has a "bathroom", because there is a bath in it. If I'm at a restaurant or something like that, it's a "washroom" because I would wash my hands there... And there in no bath.
Therefore Americans don't wash their hands they just sit,rest and relieve themselves so its called restroom eh?😂 please,vote out Trudea
pretty much my logic too
Yeah same
As a French Canadien, for the serviette vs napkin I will use the two but a napkin is generally made in paper (the type you can have in fast-food) and a serviette is in tissue (at least for my relative). Serviette is the french word for towel (a bathroom towel or a beach towel).
Funny. It is the exact opposite for me as a 64 year old anglophone.. If I use serviette, which I don't use much anymore, it is always in reference to the paper napkins and the cloth ones are just napkins.
When I learned French we were taught that a serviette was both a briefcase and a towel.
@@Thetruthhurts708 I don’t know what you mean by briefcase, but of what I’ve seen on Google picture it’s like a bag. Well this (💼) in french will be a « mallette ».
"I'm Sydney from Canada." Wait isn't Sydney located in Australia?? Just kidding! XD
Lol there’s a Sydney in Canada too
@@rlsoaxnds Ya it's the woman
@@aidenkaltenbach5436 and also a city in nova scotia
Canada and Australia are actually part of the Commonwealth.
Somewhere on the other side of the world someone named Canne Ada is introducing themselves as, "I'm Canne Ada from Sydney."
I love that they've added videos on Canada. And Sydney represents us Canadians well :D
I'm from Ottawa but some of the things she says sound unusual to me. I've never heard of a parkade before. To me, it's a parking garage. And I've never heard "hey" at the end of a sentence.
@@kontiuka same though! And chesterfield also surprised me. I haven’t heard a single Canadian say it. Only time I really use “eh” is when I say “eh, congrats” or something similar.
@@kaitlynweeks4143 lol. I would say hey, congrats! Just not congrats, hey.
@@kontiuka huh. Interesting to see how it changes from person to person lol
Heard parkade once and instantly knew what it meant.
I'm Canadian and I've NEVER heard parkade before. Born and raised here, too. I call those a parking garage.
As an American from the Midwest region, if the parking has multiple levels, it's called a parking structure. If not, it's a parking lot. If it's below ground, it's underground parking.
We would just call it a parking garage
Canadians call below ground parking, “underground parking” as well. But I guess we have the cold in common as underground parkings are usually heated or with AC.
@@ExtreemDreemer exactly, I’ve never heard anyone call it a “parking structure”
Never in my life have I heard anyone call it a parking structure you’re either making that up or that’s some regional/personal thing
@@twistedbliss58 that’s why I mentioned that I’m from the Midwest
I think Christina is gaining more Confidence and Feeling Relaxed Compared to her Previous Videos. 👍👍👍
Lol WTF how you're getting so many likes. 100 likes
@@larisa__4599 Go from here
Stalker. I mean avid fan. c",
cuz she was with the British girl who is condescending and being unknowingly rude, this really scares everyone
@@MatthewSmith-xt3ey As an english Canadian this is true. We are raised to be more reserved and proper in a way.
I am American but I lived in Montreal for 4 years while attending McGill. I have definitely kept a Canadian accent especially when I say house, out, about, roof, etc. I can't help it and I find it kind of interesting how strong and lasting an influence it was. Canada really is a beautiful country and I am honored I was able to live and study there.
Thank you please come again. I like to say those words the American way tho. It sounds like it's spelled.
I have never heard the term "bunny hug" before. I'm a Canadian however, when it comes to sweaters with hoods, I have only heard them being called a "hoodie" so of course that's what I call them too.
I’m from Saskatchewan and we call it a bunnyhug! The younger generations are now calling it a hoodie.
It’s a Saskatchewan thing. We also call it a hoodie.
It’s a Saskatchewan thing. I’m an Albertan.
@@brendaprimeau4272 Thank goodness haha
they you ain't from Sask lol
British/English English, from near Birmingham, we say:
0:33 coloured pencils, same as US.
0:55 zed, same as Canadian.
1:22 bathroom, US.
2:02 multi-storey carpark, or just a carpark.
2:34 a written test or exam.
2:55 I personally call those trainers.
3:15 fizzy pop, or just - a can of .... pepsi/coke etc.
3:47 tissue or usually serviette, I've heard some people say napkin.
4:27 cigarettes or smokes, or the F gay word is common slang.
4:59 fire station.
5:20 a/1 kilometre. US
6:04 a sofa or less commonly said is a settee or couch. US.
I've never been able to hear a significant enough difference between Canadian and American accents. The main thing I've heard different is how Canadians pronounce the "ou" in their words, such as "about" - they say a-boat, I say a-baowt.
Canadian here from Surrey.
We don't say about like boat here but like out, drought or spout, like how it's spelled.
Americans say about like bow, cow, Mao or now, not like how it's spelled.
That we say about like boat, coat, dote or wrote, is a common American misperception, no idea where they got that idea.
@@karllogan8809 All American shows and movies that have Canadians in it, show the rest of the world, Canadians can't say "about" they say "aboot"
@@dutchgamer842 Well those shows are wrong lol.
I was born and raised in Vancouver, lived in Ottawa, traveled to Alberta, Quebec and never heard anyone say 'aboot' before, maybe it's a Newfie thing or somethin' lol.
@@karllogan8809 Americans generally pronounce the diphthong represented by "ou" and "ow" the same way. It starts with an open vowel like 'apple' and rounds with a 'w'. Canadians sound different because I think they start with a vowel that sounds more like 'eh' vs. 'a' in apple. So, eh-oot vs. aa-oot. Some of you guys also say 'sorry' in a noticeably different way. We generally say something like sah-ree or sar-ee, yours can sound more like sor-ree.
@@karllogan8809 Actually for me I didn't get that from American shows etc, its more so from UA-camrs and the news. The Canadian Conservative leader Erin o'Toole I've heard him say "a-boot/boat", also a couple of UA-camrs spring to mind:
1) search - Guide to Canadian Political Parties (channel J.J. McCullough) at 1:32 he clearly says aboot.
2) search Washing The New Armoured Skin, Spark Plugs, Food Delivery To The Van | Big Thank You
At 10:53 he says aboat. Though he does often pronounce it more like about.
Suppose its similar to my local dialect of working class slang near Birmingham we sometimes say "abaat", but normally its about/abaowt.
As a Canadian, I always think of a serviette as a paper napkin whereas a napkin is made of cloth. I use washroom for a powder room and bathroom for a 3 or 4 piece bath. I do not use chesterfield, but my mom and grandparents did. And I pronounce foyer as foy-yay.
Wait a minute. As far as I know Canadians call the room they take a shower, bath, or use the toilet - in their own home - a "bathroom". We would call a public facility a "washroom" more often than a "restroom"( as Americans typically do).
I personally call my washroom 'Jym" so I can tell everyone I get up everyday and go to the 'Jym' hahaha
Yeah, we never say restroom. I think you're right about "washroom" being reserved more often for being out in public or if you wanna sound more polite
Yeah, it’s been my experience that people only say “rest room” in fancy restaurants or hotels. We use bathroom for homes and washroom for public. It isn’t really even debatable. If you buy a house in Canada (which nobody can anymore), you aren’t told it has 2 (or how ever many) washrooms (even typing that felt weird) no it has 2 bathrooms.
Here's something that sometimes trips people: "Turn left, right?" "Right."
The opposite would be to say, "No, right."
(="No, turn right.")
"oh yeah, no"
@@plum999oI say this so much 😭 “Do you want to go to the fair together?” I’d respond either way “ya, no” or “no, ya”
I grew up in Michigan, so a soft drink is "pop". I almost never use the word "sofa"; to me, it's a couch, although I first learned it as "davenport". "Eh" seems to be common in northern Michigan and northern Wisconsin. When I served in the U.S. Army many decades ago, "click" was common slang for a kilometer. In my experience, most Americans pronounce "kilometer" with the stress on the second syllable while most Canadians put the stress on the third syllable.
Klick was 100% an Australian Army term for the Vietnam War. The Americans copied it.
I’m from south Louisiana in the southern U.S. and pop sounds foreign to our ears and sofa is our common word rather than couch. And you’re my countryman. Quite a large difference in the U.S.
I'm from Ontario and I say kilometre as kil-ah-mitt-r with the heavy accent on the ah.
All these terms & local expressions are becoming more & more mixed & variable - the world is so connected that all sorts of jargon is spreading. I'm from Montreal, and we don't always use some expressions that originate in provinces to the west of us. But we've _heard_ them; and we've heard all the American expressions, from media. So we don't even _notice_ if we're using our own local jargon, or find ourselves adopting terms from further afield. And my wife & I watch a lot of UK television; so we don't bat an eye at _those_ expressions, either! And for Canadians who are older, and/or have read English literature widely, all bets are off.
Actually, here (portion of the U.S.) a "chesterfield" sofa refers to a particular style of couch. - The style with buttoning on the backrest especially, but also both backrest and seat cushions
From Western Canada, but my Grandma was from Anglo-Quebec and grew up during the war. Chesterfield to me is the buttoned backrest/seat with non-plush arm rail, but to my grandma it was any multi-seat couch that had at least one raisable leg section, like a lay-z-boy. She had a Chesterfield, couch, love seat, and armchair in her living room...it was not very common to hear it outside of seniors when I was little.
I was looking to see if anyone else mentioned the Chesterfield sofa.
Like a Davenport? Which I associate with the US
I always thought a Chesterfield in America was slang for a pack of cigarettes (since that was an actual brand).
@@lynnjasen9727 - That's like Kleenex, a trade name for a line of upholstered furniture made by the A.H. Davenport and Company of Massachusetts that became a generic name for a couch. Kind of like "La-Z-boy" for any upholstered recliner.
As someone from the UK, can confirm I've never heard the term 'parkade' until watching this video 😅 we just call it a car park. If it has multiple levels we might differentiate by calling it a multistorey, but it's still a car park.
Also most people just call a bathroom a toilet, or more informally a 'loo'. We say bathroom as well but normally only when there's an actual shower/bath in it. Even then it's not used as often. Most people wouldn't say "where's the bathroom" if they're looking to use the toilet, for example.
I've also never heard anyone call a sofa a "Chesterfield".. there is a town in England called Chesterfield though 😆
As for the other ones, we tend to say: coloured pencils; zed; do a test; trainers; fizzy drink; napkin and serviette are both used (I think serviette tends to be used more by like 50+ year olds); cigarettes/ciggies/cigs/fags (this is used a bit less now, prob bc people are aware of it being a slur in American English, but it's still used by a lot of people); fire station; kilometre.
Came here to say this! Never heard "parkade" in my life 😂car park is what it is in England
In the UK a Chesterfield is a style of sofa / couch. Not sure if it's a really a brand.
Im in the uk but i would call it a sofa or a settee
@Lonestar Papa We do mostly for ads that sell couches like Lyons or the Brick was a store called Chesterfield warehouse.
In the North East of the US is a style of furniture.
Same in the U.S.
I'm a Filipino-Canadian in Ontario, been all over the Greater Toronto Area since I moved here when I was four, and I currently live an hour east of downtown Toronto, and we say: "pencil crayons", "zed", "bathroom" at home and "washroom" for public places, "parkade" for multi-level parking spaces and "parking lot" for an open, roof-less parking area, "write/have a test", "running shoes", "pop", "serviette" or "napkin", "smokes", "fire station", "kilometer" or "click" (way more slangy), "couch", "eh" or "right", and finally, "hoodie." They should've had the word "toque" which I think Americans call beanies? Or winter hats?
Winter hats in the USA go by different names.
In the south it is known as a toboggan (in reference to people wearing these hats when sledding on a toboggan.)
The word beanie seems to have originated out of California and has really gone nation-wide. Before, a beanie was only known as a small child's hat, the kind with a propeller on the top.
In the north, they appear more likely to use the word "sock hat" or "stocking cap"
@@willp.8120 - Yep, to me "beanie" will always be what Spanky wore in "Our Gang". I use the spelling "tuque" for the winter knit hat with the pompom.
What was the need to specify your ancestry? Just call yourself a Canadian.
@@IslenoGutierrez Canada is a massive country, it's the 2nd biggest in the world, and while the US is only slightly smaller, it's in large portions 50 times denser in population. The different subcultures are important. Canadian immigration is very different from the US's. While they had a massive influx of latino's, we had a massive number of Asian's come over. It means Asian culture is hugely important influence to the modern Canadian identity. Most people think of Canada and they imagine Suburban English kids. It's probably about 50% of the population but it's misleading to define us by that. Canada has the French thing, the first nations/natives thing, Asian immigrant culture in the big cities, then you have the ice wall people who live in the rural north, logging/minning, ice fishing in the winter etc. If you imagine the "average Canadian" you'll imagine the statistical majority but it's a very narrow majority. Something like only half the country speaks English as their only first language. About 1/4th speak french, and another 1/4th speak some other language. And the native Anglos are not at all a monolith. If you grew up in an Asian neighborhood you're gonna absorb the culture. If you grew up around natives/first nations you're gonna absorb the culture. If you grew up around french Canadian's you're gonna absorb the culture.
@@katethomas1519 But none of that is relevant to nationality. All this person had to say was I’m Canadian because most of those people you described are Canadians.
Canadian English is very much influenced by other countries without a doubt. Just as the Canadian girl mentioned, it does also depend on what part of Canada you're from, but I personally use so many interchangeable terms that Americans and Canadians would use. You would never catch me using the word serviette lol.
Same. I'm in Quebec and we don't use "serviette" (unless it`s for a real towel). Instead, we say "napkin" with a French accent when we want a napkin ("Peux-tu me donner un napkin s'il te plaît?").
Are most Canadians bilingual ? Speaking French & English ?
Me too. It drives me nuts when my wife says serviette vs napkin.
True! That's true for any countries that share some language or territory, though. Though to my knowledge, parkade is actually a Canadian term; it's not from somewhere else - they call them car parks in the UK and Australia, so she's wrong to say it comes.from the UK. People sometimes forget that we can make up our own words too, it seems 😅
@@tudormiller887 No not all of us. I dropped French in high school bcz I had a hard time with it. So no, I hardly ever hear French spoken in Toronto and area.
I think in the US only the military says "click" as a distance.
That's right, the U.S. military uses kilometers.
The US military does use meter distance measurement, and we would say "click" as a way for verbally shortening km.
Hmm in the military I'd always spell it klick in my mind since it comes from km.
This is what I thought to myself as well.
English speaking Canadians use it informally the same way as the US military. Our military folks obviously use it that way too (heck my ex-Army dad uses "click" when speaking in his native French). I'm honestly not sure the habit started in the military and spread to the civilian world when we went metric in the 70s or if it was more universal. Heck, it is very possible that US troops picked up the habit from ours since our militaries have such close ties.
I'm not sure if we vary in spelling (C vs K). Click is the norm up north.
If you’re from a farming community the late meal is usually called supper. To further confuse things when harvest workers were being fed in the middle of the day it was called dinner.
Also bunny hug is usually a younger generation term. People who grew up in 60s & 70s called them kangaroos because of the pockets on the front. Now most people call them hoodies.
Same in Iowa USA
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😂hi
I’m Japanese. I used to study in Canada more than 10 years ago, and I live in the US now. The word washroom sometimes slips out of my mouth instead of bathroom. It’s a lingering trace of the days I spent in Canada, and it always brings me back good old memories.
I always love Christina, and Sydney is great in the videos. Most of my knowledge of Canada comes from old episodes of South Park (The 'French Canada' song, and the "I'm not your friend, buddy. I'm not your buddy, friend." skit). I guess there are feuds between different regions of Canada? In the US there's "pop", "soda", and in some parts "coke". "Hey, can you get me a coke?", "Sure, what kind". Another term I have yet to come across on this channel's videos is "water closet", or "WC". I grew up with bathroom, restroom, and latrine (Army), but we used "WC" for water closet while amongst the natives in the middle east.
WC (pronounced VC in French) is used in French-speaking countries. Seeing your last name makes me think you’re more on the French side. I never heard English Canadians use the term “WC” or “watercloset” though I know it through French and UK English.
they'll say WC in Croatia (pronounced VC aswell). @@lalitar626
Yeah, there are some regional differences! Though I dunno if I'd call them feuds, haha. Honestly, South Park makes me feel complimented as a Canadian. It might sound funny but if someone can make fun of you well, it's almost a compliment cos it shows they get you. South Park does, haha. That buddy/pal thing is bang-on in particular. We often use "buddy" to refer to someone who's annoyed us. Like "Buddy over here just cut me off, what's he smoking?"
We say going to the VC in Croatia, too. It might be WC in spelling, but we pronounce it "V" "C" for some reason. I never knew it stood for water closet (you learn something new every day!!).
@@johnbatinovic6593 The V, W, and F are pronounced differently between Europe and America. I'm sure the Germans cringe when someone from the U.S. pronounces the name Volkswagen.
As a French-Canadian from Québec, to me it seems like we're taught English more like Americans cause I frankly recognized more of the American terms than Canadian ones...also I was taught zee for the alphabet, not zed. That fact is kind of weirding me out
I'm American. Only time I've used Zed is when talking about ZX Spectrum computers.
As a French Canadian, saying “zed” shouldn’t be weird as in French “z” is “zed.”
@@lalitar626 saying zed doesn't weird me out. What I said weirds me out is the fact that I was taught to say zee in English when this video claims in Canada we say zed in English.
@@lalitar626 exactly!!!! She doesn't even know that it might be coming from french... I was like hello Québec!!😂
It's because Toronto and Montreal are closer to New-York than Vancouver.
as a canadian, ive never heard of a parkade, but coming from a small town where we dont have any of those, i dont know what to call it
As a British person, I would say "coloured pencils", but I would understand what you meant if you said "pencil crayons".
In the UK we say "car park" for the place where you can park your car. A multistorey building for parking your car is a "multistorey car park".
Concerning serviettes/napkins, I would tend to say "napkin" for a cloth napkin, but "serviette" for a disposable paper serviette.
A common informal word for cigarettes in the UK is "fags" (yes, we know this is a derogatory term in the US).
"Chesterfield" is not very British. We would say "settee" or "sofa". Chesterfield is a town in Derbyshire, south of Sheffield, and famous for its church with a twisted spire.
We French we say "serviette" for towel
For the color pencil, we say "crayon de couleur"
We more closer than you think, love brits
🇫🇷🤝🇬🇧
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 Thank you man we love the French too :).
A lot of the English language was adapted from French (as well as Latin, Dutch, and some Afrikaans).
You only have to look at certain words like "Serviette" or even "Colour" they are even almost pronounced the same.
@@TrueidiotGames English has borrowed words from very many languages, not just the ones you listed. Arabic, Persian and various Indian languages also feature prominently (algebra, alkali, khaki, pyjamas, bungalow etc).
@@TrueidiotGames Indeed. Same pronunciation
Chesterfield is a make of high class suits
It was an amazing video. I've learnt so much 🇨🇦🇺🇸👏
I’m Canadian and I have never heard of anyone using the word chesterfield to describe a couch/sofa.
I'm from Prince Edward Island, and people use Chesterfield here. Mostly people I've hear use it are 55+ years old.
older people from rural / more english-influenced areas
We say it a lot in Newfoundland, or at least the area in NF I'm from.
My mum said chesterfield. I say it occasionally.
My parents did all the time. I think it is a generational thing
The Midwest, particularly the northern parts bridging Canada, you find many people sounding similar to Canadians and using many of their terms, most notably “pop”.
I love this channel. You guys bring so many interesting contents in a quite fun way. 👏🇧🇷
I'm a non-native speaker and I have trouble telling if a person is from the U.S. or Canada by their accent. I just figured a lot of the English words I learned at school were American and lotta Canadian words are new for me. Thank you for the input!
I’m from the southern U.S. and in my estimation of Canadian accents, I find them to use words like lot, not and got to rhyme with the word thought, similarly to how England uses those words (likely from British influence). Also, the word “about” they make it sound something like “a boat” and of course saying ay/eh. I’m generalizing to what I’ve heard, there may be Canadian dialects that don’t use these features. Otherwise the accents themselves depending on the region, do sound something like certain American accents like either from Minnesota and Wisconsin, California accents or certain east coast accents in the U.S. or even like a mix of any of these three. For the most part they do sound a lot like American accents to the point where people not from the U.S. may not be able to tell them apart.
americans and canadians have trouble telling each other apart - there are dialects that are distinguishable - but standard american and standard canadian are almost exactly alike - except for the pronunciation of certain words - which except for "zee/zed" wasn't discussed here - and a few extra vocabulary items in canadian usually inherited from the UK
@@IslenoGutierrezlmao I'm Canadian and I just read "not" "thought" and "lot" out loud and they rhyme. I wonder how they're supposed to sound different 😅
@@geoplanetaire In my state of Louisiana here in the southern U.S., they dont rhyme. “Not” and “lot” rhyme with “sock” and “thought” rhymes with “sought”. But overall, Canadian accents sound very similar to certain American accents with very minor differences.
The Canadian doesn't have a Canadian accent. Large parts of Canada have no accent. And as a general rule if you went to university you lost whatever accent you had growing up(this happens all around the world)
A lot of these are highly regional and/or specific to older generations.
Growing up I wore sneakers.
really interesting to see Sydney as Canadian representation. please, offer more content with Canadian topics😊👍
Interesting if you like being straight up lied to….. most of what she said was straight up false
I'm Canadian and I say pencil crayon (but I've heard coloured pencil), zed, bathroom (but I have heard washroom and sometimes restroom), parking garage, having/writing/taking a test, runners or sneakers (runners are more for hiking or sports, and sneakers are more casual, for example, "new balance" shoes are runners and "converse" shoes are sneakers), pop (I have heard soda or soda pop), napkin (I've never heard "serviette"), cigarette (but I've heard smokes or cigs, and I've never heard ciggies), fire department (but I've heard fire station, firehall, or firehouse), I've heard clicks but I say kilometer, couch (but I've heard sofa, never heard "chesterfield), right ("eh" is more like saying "am I right or am I right" or confirming what you're pretty sure you know), hoodie (I've never heard bunny hug, but I kind of love it 😂)
She lost me when Canada didn't say "dart" for a cigarette. 😆
same lol
I've heard dart in TV or movie but never in real life here so she never lost me
I was going to say she missed a golden opportunity to call it a dart
I'm 69 and I've heard "fag" for cigarette in Canada way more often than I've heard "dart".
From BC I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything besides dart lol
Here in France 🟦⬜🟥 , we say :
"crayon de couleur"➡️ color pencil/pencil crayon
"serviette" is a French word
The letter "Z" we also pronunce 🔊 [zed] in French. I do think its a French influence
Canada had British and French influences but mostly Brits.
Afterall 🇬🇧🇫🇷 colonised 🇨🇦 and other parts of Nort America like Québec 🇲🇶 (They prefer speaking French over English)
Long live the English and French Speakers !
This Channel is getting really interesting
Christina and Sidney both beautiful young ladies. I've fallen in love with those two ❤️♥️
Here in New Zealand we use the word Serviette and Napkin - but I think it is more with with personal choice. I use serviette more than napkin myself. I have never heard it called a coloured crayon before.
@@jgroenveld1268 Me neitheir. All mixed with English and French words
🇫🇷 serviette = 🇪🇸 servilleta
Au Québec on dit des crayons de cire, les crayons de couleur ce sont ceux en bois! Pour serviette on dit napkin en général, sinon on dit serviette de table lorsqu’il s’agit d’une réelle serviette!
@@francisvoyer Crayon en cire ? Ça doit être incassable. 😂
My town has a parking garage called The Parkade. I thought that was a fancy, fun name for a parking garage. I’ve also heard them called parking decks.
Bunny hug!! I love this. Thanks for the great share on language differences in close neighbors!
Chesterfield was a brand of very well made seating, from the UK. The term was brought over here in Canada and used by many, but since is rarely used.
In the U.S., chesterfield is usually a type of fancy sofa with the all the buttons and stuff.
As a Canadian, I have NEVER heard of anyone but one AMERICAN SHOW call a BATHROOM a WASHROOM!!! Here are some more things I have NEVER heard of: Parkade, runners, serviette???, firehall, a click, chesterfield, "we're having chicken for dinner 'hey'", and bunny hug. Maybe Kitchener, Ontario is just less into the Canadian specific slang? I found it surprising they didn't mention a toque though.
Canadians : Running in runners
Americans : Sneaking in sneakers
Some Americans (like me) grew up with "tennis shoes." Don't know why.
I’m American I just say shoes lol
@@adilhoxha5443 😆
@@wesleybush8646 you guys americans really full of surprises huh😆
Wait, isn't that British though?
I once worked with an associate from Nova Scotia and she said "In our company we use a lot of acronyms" and I replied "Yeah, but in Canada all the acronyms end in 'eh'." That was my finest hour.
My favourite similar joke - I moved from Canada to Australia, and got my Aussie citizenship recently. I've had a few friends joke I'll have to start talking like a proper Aussie now, and I'm like, "Yeah, I'll have to start saying g'day" and they're like "yeah!" and then I go "but since I'm a dual citizen, I'll have to say 'g'day, eh?" 😛 It always makes them crack up!
2:05 we don't say Pakade! We say parking garage
Bathroom, washroom, restroom, loo, the bog, the head, the biffy, are all terms I've heard and used myself here in Canada 🇨🇦!
I'm surprised that didn't cover the differences in the spelling of words between Canada and the United States.
I'm studying English on UA-cam. Be my friend. Excuse me
or more informally, 'the can'.
@@Shmerpy maybe the poop deck?
@@Imaworldstar-jw3yj I'm sorry, I didn't see your comment until now.
How is your English language study going?
If you were serious, I can try and help you with things that you're having trouble with in your studies. I hope that you're doing well and that you're happy today.
but never a john. I hear jerry is becoming more standard.
You should bring an American southerner with a heavy accent
Not possible as this show is based in South Korea.
The channel is based on people from different countries living in Korea, and they are able to speak Korean.
As long as she is as fine as Christina, if not then I am more than good with her
Yeah it's always disappointing when the Americans they use in videos like these always have that Cali accent ( ik Christina is from Boston but she sounds more like someone from Cali) it's just annoying cause most of us at least where I'm from don't sound like that
@@castlecorn593 One question have a ever met anyone from Vermont, I am from Vermont and I get where in New York are you from all the time aka 90% of the time, get asked that is from people who were born and raised in Vermont.
I'm Canadian and I have never heard the term "parkade" in my life. As for washroom/bathroom, it's generally 50/50 here.
"Parkade" is mostly a Western Canada thing. In another video, the Canadian girl said that her "home university" was the University of Saskatchewan, so it makes sense that she would be familiar with "parkade".
@@JohnnyLovesPuppies Canada has a small spread out population. And therefore the Universities are very spread out. It's very very common that if you have a specific academic interest you can end up anywhere in the country. Obviously something similar happens in the US but again because we have so few cities and are so rural we don't have the same options.
To me "write a test" sounds like something the teacher would do while creating the test that students will take.
To my fellow Canadians who say they've never heard of a parkade, try searching for 'Parkades in (name of your province)'. It's a pretty common term - you just never noticed it before.
Perhaps it's more a case of nobody calls it a parkade, at least where's I'm from (Southern Ontario). It's parking garage.
Noone cares and why would someone search that. F canada
@@michaelmarkowski204 Same here. I never, ever say any words that sound even remotely British. I say parking garage i.e. underground parking garage or parking lot.
For those that works in the construction industry, parkade is the most commonly used term to describe a parking garage.
@@392023001 Well for those who don't we still call them parking lots or underground parking. Ef the parkade nomenclature.
tuque vs beanie is a more subtle but strong distinction between canada and the states.
it took me until my 20s to realize that when americans say beanie what they're talking about is a knit hat. nobody says that word here so my only reference(and the thing that still automatically comes to mind) was the propeller beanie from the Calvin and Hobbes comics.
eh is also used to ask for clarification sometimes, for example if you say something to me and i don't quite hear you or understand you i might respond with "eh?" with the assumption you will repeat yourself when you hear that.
According to my American relatives, saying 'figure it out' is a Canadianism, I mean we say it all the time but as far as I know Americans still understand the phrase. Additionally 'emerge' as a term for the emergency room at a hospital is apparently a Canadianism, whereas Americans would just say E.R. - which is also occasionally used in Canada
That is fascinating about the phrases. I'm from Nova Scotia and yeah..... those are common here. I thought they were used in all of North America. Now I'm wondering what other phrases, might be common in Canada, but not elsewhere. 🤔 Anyone from outside Canada that might have some insights?
Sydney was the most accurate, when she said, we Canadians, take influence from the UK and the US. Have an English on this panel, and you'll see we're right down the middle. Never heard of Bunny Hug, must've stayed in SK ;)
Canadian English is almost exactly the same as American English and nothing like the UK. Canadians are very delusional to believe that they are more European than the USA, more "cultured". It is funny and kinda annoying.
@@aod2026 On the East Coast, we have had far more 'European' influence than the Rest of Canada. But we are so small (about 8-10% of the total population), that everyone in RoC forgets that we are here. Acadian French is distinctly old style French, along the South Shore of NS you would think you are in colonial Boston, Cape Breton is old French to the west/ Scots english to the east, and Newfoundland..........🤔
So... NO.....Canadian English is Not Exactly the same as American English. Similar.... yes, but some vocabulary, and definitely the cadence is different.
@@aod2026 From spelling to pronunciation to slangs, Canadian English is very different than American English. You don’t know what you’re talking about.
@@mhawang8204 lol I bet you only speak English 😅
@@dougwilson4537 Canada is an Immigrant country with people from all around the world. Stop glorifying the "European Influence" which was basicly a colonisation of the land and murdering of it native people. It is something that you should be ashamed of.. not proud!
And if you still think you are like a European or something. Try and travel to Europe. you will see you are nothing like them..
The UK doesn’t say parkade- it's car park. The UK also rarely says bathroom- it's toilet something no Canadian, myself included, ever says. I live in England so I'm forced to say toilet. Canada is also highly influenced by French Canada- not an influence at all for US.
I bursted out laughing when Christina said parking parade! As an American, it was my first time hearing the term parkade as well.
In the previous video, I guessed that Sydney was from Quebec because she speaks French but in this video, she said she's from the west side. Which makes me think she's from either BC or Alberta.
Also, in the US, you won't have to worry about measuring things in kilometers since the US measures distance in miles. If you were to mention km to the average American, he/she would be confused and you would definitely make it obvious that you're not from the US as the average American doesn't know how to measure distance in km.
The pop/soda debate is definitely regional in the US. I've lived in the east coast, the west coast, and the Midwest of the US and what you hear from people depends on which state you're in.
One other difference I want to point out when comparing American English to Canadian English is words that end in "-er" vs "-re" and "-or" vs "-our." The words "theater" and "center" are spelled "theatre" and "centre" in Canada. "Color" is spelled "colour" in Canada.
Couleur is a French word.
We french "crayon de couleur"
I believe Sydney is from BC because she also referenced her friends from Central Canada's prairies using clicks. Plus, her accent is more general West Coast, very similar to California.
Yep... You yanks invert your re's and drop essential u's. 🤣
The one Americanism in English that actually does raise my ire is dropping -ly on adverbs. (e.g. saying "Drive safe" instead of "Drive safely")
Sydney doesn't sound like a Quebecker. Both French Canadians and Anglo-Quebeckers have a distinctive accent, although the latter is harder to distinguish from an English speaking Canadian from further west unless you are familiar with it. My own English accent is predominantly Anglo-Quebecker (mixed Montreal and Quebec City) with eastern Ontarian influences. My vocabulary is noticeably more Brit, Canadian French and New England influenced than say, a southern Ontarian and my grammar has more Brit and Canadian French influences. Sydney's got a very clean Canadian Standard accent typical of well educated folks from BC to Ontario. My first guess would be that she's from BC since her speech reminds me of folks from Vancouver that I know but I could be wrong there. Simple population numbers make BC/Alta highly likely if she's from west of Ontario.
Given that she and the other folks on here seem to be language teachers, she's probably just got a knack for languages and was lucky enough to have some good French second language teachers in school. It's standard for Canadians to learn their non-native official language as a second language in school (but the quality of that education sadly varies a fair bit), so English-speaking kids learn some French and vice versa. Some kids in more bilingual areas (the Montreal and Ottawa areas especially) have access to genuinely bilingual education and take about half their courses in one language and the other half in the other (not unusual in eastern Ontario and western Quebec).
With the kilometer/kilometre thing, they were obviously fishing for the use of the colloquial term "clicks" but I've also noticed that some Americans stress the syllables of the word a bit differently (which alters the vowel sounds a bit).
The pop/soda thing is also regional in Canada, although pop is very common from Ontario westwards. Anglo-Quebeckers tend to say "soft drink" more than "soda" and rarely ever say "pop". Much like the US, it's a big country and we've got some regional variation (Atlantic Canada is a whole different kettle of fish from the rest of the country, both in its English and French dialects).
Canadian standard spelling kind of splits the difference between the US and the UK. We do use -re and -our, along with other Brit style stuff like using C rather than S in words like defence, but we do share American spellings on other words like tire or connection (vs. connexion... although I think both are acceptable). Honestly, most of us alternate back and forth between US and UK spelling norms without even noticing that we do it. I'm fairly certain that I spell defence/defense both ways all the time without noticing.
a lot of people in canada speak french or learn french as a child because it is the second language
From Nova Scotia & never heard of pencil crayons. Always been coloured pencils around here. Also, usually called a bathroom with whoever I've talked with (washroom mostly, if it's a public facility, though). Always used sneakers, never called them runners. Maybe central Canadians say serviette, the actual east coast calls them napkins.
From New Brunswick, and same for moi.
Hey, some of my ancestors were from Nova Scotia, about 270 years ago!
I’m from south Louisiana and some of my ancestors were French-speaking Acadians that were exiled by the British and wound up in south Louisiana where they were known as “Cajuns” (or in French “Cadjins”- cah-jan).
Great video! I’m from the UK - drive 50 miles in any direction and the accent changes significantly and so do some words!
Sydney is pretty charming, and Christina is lovely as always!
I've also heard couches or sofas called davenports in Wisconsin. We say soda, soda pop, or pop here. We usually use the word office for bathroom. Typical conversation would be:
"Yeah, I'm gonna go to the office now and take care of a few things."
"Eh, be a lamb and light a candle while you're in there."
"Yeah, whatever."
On a related topic, we have been accused of drinking too much in Wisconsin. Could be. Maybe that's why Canada let the US keep us, more headaches than they wanted to deal with.
In NZ, we would say eh all the time (much more the Canadians), crayons, zed, bathroom (public, cloakroom), parking building, take a test, sneakers, fizzy drink, napkin (definitely not serviette), cigarettes, fire station, kliometer (klick is Australian), sofa, eh, swannie.
Question to Canadians: If you "write" a test as an examinee, what is the verb used when an examiner creates exam questions?
Prof: "I'm still putting together your exam"
Well, we usually 'take' a test, 😁 so it would have to be placed first, before we took it. (sorry 😊)
Seriously though - I would say that the person would either 'set the questions/test', or 'make(up) the test/exam'. I don't think there is any preference for one way to say it over the other, and any difference might be regional. Myself, I would probably say, that I have to set an exam/test.
"I still haven't made your test" or "I'm in the process of making your test"
Someone else commented here that how teachers in the U.S. grade your test afterwards, Canadian teachers “mark” your test afterwards.
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I live just one province over from Saskatchewan, and I've never heard anyone refer to a hoodie as a "bunny hug". That's cute, but I'm guessing it's also extremely regional :)
I live in SK and we do use it. However, term hoodies is taking over.
I love watching these kinds of videos. I'm from Toronto so it's fun and funny hearing how people from other parts of Canada pronounce words. I totally agree that influence is such a major thing. Based on how I grew up, I definitely speak more like Christina- except for pencil crayon, it has to be pencil crayon!!
Ima from Mississauga and I def say colored pencils. Pencil crayons don't make sense. They are made of pencil graphite not wax for gosh sakes.Cheers!
"Parkade" is relatively new. Parking lot refers to street level parking.
In Canada we say "write a test" if in fact it is written but we "take a road test".
I grew up believing "napkin" was more American but acceptable, "serviette" being preferrable.
A chesterfield does not have cushions, it's like a single mattress surface for sitting. A couch has cushions marking a spot to sit while "sofa" is more generic.
In the part of the US where i'm from we don't use soda or pop, we use "coke" for all carbonated beverages. Which means a Pepsi is a coke.
We don't use the term "sneakers" either, we call them "tennis shoes".
I'm pretty sure most Americans use "colored pencils" instead of just "color pencils"
Wow.. these terms certainly depend on where you live. I'm from the west coast of the US and I've never heard someone call sneakers tennis shoes. Interesting ^-^
You must be from the south because down here some people say “coke.”
Are you from Texas? I’ve heard those a lot here. But I lean towards soda even though most people I know call it Coke.
@@matchalennon I'm currently living in east Texas but I grew up in Mississippi.
Older generations in New England say TONIC instead of soda. I might switch it up between tonic and soda, but my father definitely says tonic. He also says "wastepaper basket" and "bahhhhthroom"
Oh and parlor is a room in the house
"Bunny hug" has got to be the best word on this list.
There is a part of me that can't wait till I go back to work just so I can say to some coworkers "That's a nice bunny hug you're wearing." :) ... yes, I'm that guy. lol
I grew up in Vancouver and I have not once used or heard of anyone calling a parking lot a parkade lol
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It's ironic that the Canadian girl would say restroom to sound more refined, when restroom is typically the lowest standard type of bathroom with just toilets that you go to at a gas station, airport, bar etc. Basically it's the least refined type of bathroom.
Anglo from Montreal. Coloured Pencil is either a Pencil Crayon or coloured pencil. Pronounce it as Zed, Bathroom, washroom or Salle de Bain, parking. Parking lot or Parking garage, maybe stationnement in casual context. N pot find some stationnement eh” never even heard of Parkade. Have or take a test. Runners or running shoes. Never sneakers. Soft drink, never soda or pop. My husband says pop. Napkin or serviette. More often napkin. Cigarettes or smokes. Fire station. Never fire hall. 1 kilometre or a click. We say click more. Couch, or sofa. never chesterfield. Right, but eh far far more often. Eh is used a LOT.hoodie, never heard of a bunny hug. Love it though.
USA to Canada: So you are wearing runners and you never run. xD :D ;)
I think everyone used to say "soda pop" way back when (I remember it), and then when everyone inevitably shortened it, they chose a different word to drop. :)
I imagine "taxi cab" is another example of this.
In the US, in the south they tend to use Soda, in the north they tend to use pop. In the central region between north and south, soda pop, pop or soda will be used interchangeable and around cities like Atlanta where the Coca-Cola bottling plant is, Coke is used to describe all carbonated beverages regardless of whether it is Coke, or or made by the Coca-Cola company, or not.
As a Canadian I’ve never heard the word “chesterfield” in my entire life 😂
naw same !
I've not heard of "chesterfield" to describe a couch. I also heard "davenport" for a couch.
I think Davenport was a well known brand in the 30s-50s.
Yes. It was like La-z-Boy essentially. So popular that for a long time people called all couches davenports like many people call all tissues Kleenex
Always said chesterfield in our home. Lived in Ontario all my life
Sydney’s pretty 😘 elegant more specifically 😘😘
I'm from southern Ontario and here's my prefrences:
1: Yeah, I definitely would call this a pencil crayon I've only heard a couple colour pencils
2: I call this one "zee" I remember in kindergarden learning it as "zed" but it sounded weird so I use "zee".
3: It kind of depends so I'd say 50/50
4: I've never heard parking garage nor parkade. I use parking lot.
5: This one's also 50/50
6: Yet ANOTHER 50/50 (I'm quite indecisive lol).
7: I use pop most of the time but also sometimes soda.
8: Napkin. Although a ton of people say serviette.
9: Cigarette. Never heard of smokes before.
10: Firestation.
11: Kilometre
12: CHESTERFIELD?? That's new to me. I use sofa or couch.
13: I've only used "eh" a couple of times. I use "right".
I was really shocked by chesterfield even though I'm supposed to do one from the US.
In USA they say "Soda"
In Canada they say "Pop"
And here's Nigeria, the prodigal English speaking country, they say "Minerals." 😂
In the USA every region is different, we say soda, pop and soda pop
You're right 😀but not on a formal term...
In Ireland, ‘minerals” is the most commonly used term for soft drinks. “Will you have a mineral?”
They say pop in the US as well. More so in the north. Soda pop is also used. In Georgia a lot of people say Coke. I guess because it was invented there.
@@binhnham2512 I live in Georgia, and we say "Coke" really for only colas, not Sprite, Mountain Dew, or orange soda.
Coke/Pepsi/RC can be called -----> Coke
Sprite ------------------------------------------> Sprite
Mountain Dew ----------------------------> Mountain Dew/Dew
Orange Crush------------------------------> Crush/Orange Crush/Orange Soda
If referring to all "sodas", traditionally we mostly said "soft drink", but as the word soda took hold in the media and as more people from outside the south moved here, you started to hear "soda" a lot. That said, "orange soda" or "soda fountain" was always common.
The slang term "Klick" for Kilometer was first coined by US soldiers in Vietnam and is still used by the US armed forces today. Things may have changed or evolved since...
🙋♀️🇨🇦 I'm a 53 year old Canadian in Southern Ontario and "Z" is pronounced both ways here with a strong leaning towards "zee" from the American influence especially on the younger generations. I typically find that people over 45 tend to "zed" more often than "zee"
It absolutely is from our former strong British ties being a former British colony of sorts.
It also depends where in Canada you are, for instance down East they still have stronger British influence in their language then other areas across Canada.
We have a lot of similarities with the British, such as being passive aggressive, having self depreciating sense of humor, being polite & considerate. We are fairly good at queuing but not quite as well as the British 😏😉
Just in my lifetime I've seen the changes. When I was a very young child we had between 3 to 5 TV stations that we could get in on our TV with good weather and good signals...then Cable TV came out and we suddenly had 6 channels all the time...well not all the time as the channels shut down around 11pm - 12am and turned back on around 5am - 6am.
Back in the 70's & early 80's we still had a predominately strong British influence on our language, spelling, humour, slang words & phrases etc
With the advent & growth of cable TV we started watching American TV programs to the point where the majority of the television channels available in any "cable" TV package the majority of them are American.
So children born in & after the 80's have always had a strong American influence in their lives without ever really realizing it.
Again it depends on where in the country you live. As the Atlantic Province's still have a strong British influence that's uniquely theirs. Obviously Quebec is the odd one out being the "French" Province...🤭
I hope you find this helpful if not a little interesting
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Canadian here from Surrey.
I say zee, not zed.
I say fire department or station, not hall.
My grandma's generation said chesterfield and serviette, but we just say couch/sofa and napkin.
Other than that, same as Sydney.
Oh one last one, I've heard some Canadians use 'kangaroo jacket' instead of hoodie or 'bunny hug', don't ask me shrugs
Apparently Canadians like coming up with weird terms for hoodies.
I'm an American and I say firehouse not fire station lol
Lol fire station is most accurate. Fire House is like my House is in fire
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 no, firehouse is where the firemen and firewomen live and work. My uncle's a firemen and I've always heard them call it that.
I say zed and i've never heard bunny hug
Zee is just simply incorrect. Everywhere in Canada it is supposed to be zed. People just take their own free will and ignore how the English language is so a song can rhyme.
Christina was wrong about the 1km one, we would actually say .6 miles 😉
That's right lol
In the US Army we use clicks
@@binhnham2512
Woah, didn’t know that!
@gonzalezm244 no we don't. I dint know what he's smoking
@binhnham2512 no we don't! What are you smokin?
It's been more than 15 years since I quit working for Sears and Home Depot. I have delivered thousands of Couches, Love seats, recliners and all kinds of appliances all over Southwestern Ontario and never heard the word Chesterfield!.
Parcade? I'm born and raised in Ottawa and I've never heard that word to describe what we call a parking garage or a parking lot. Provincial differences for sure. 😁
No, parade not parcade.
It’s spelled parkade.