Instant Giveaways That Someone is Canadian | American Reacts 

A Duotang is a type of 3 ring binder but more like a folder.

😂😂😂😂

Lol

Bro thinks it's a katana or something💀

@jonathonsas1607 I mean I may be Biased as a Canadian - but what the fuk dude - Canada is apart of the Americas. What even is “American” when we (Canada) are North American not north OF America 😂😂😂😂 and a duotang is PRAWNG based with an eyelet accompanying it - not a binder, which does utilize rings. Don’t believe everything u see kid.

Can agree with that, am also Canadian

i disagree, i use both washroom and bathroom anywhere, i dont really use restroom

In the middle east and south east Asia it is known as CR ...comfort room ! just sayin ! lol

Not entirely. Bathroom has a bath and/or shower. Washroom for rooms that only have a toilet and a sink. I'd never say "Where is your bathroom" if I was at a friend's house. If a friend asked that of me at my house, I'd immediately say "are you going to have a bath?" And yes, Restroom is never ever used, but Canadians are aware of it and would understand. Same goes for "loo". One that might baffle some Canadians is "water closet" which is a british thing.

This is so true. Bathroom is casual and washroom is "polite"

not everyone in Canada makes people follow that rule. I am one of them. However, I would be respectful of anyone in their own home who wishes it.

Never a restroom because thats not a place for a nap... lol

Imagine walking in from the with wet boots and walking all over someone's polished hardwood floor! Our swiffer sheets will show dog hair or human hair, never dirt.

I always thought it was most polite to take off shoes and then a friend told me dirt can be cleaned but sweat from smelly socks cannot be cleaned from the carpet. LOL

@@TraceyMush Ohh that's true. Still, if I'm choosing between slush, socks, and bare feet on carpet, I think I'd still go with socks though. Though come to think of it I do have some friends whose feet smell pretty bad and they'd bring a change of socks sometimes lol.

@DragoonPhooenix lol I haven't used them in so long I forgot about them until this video

I've always heard it pronounced more like "dEWuh-TAng" than "dew-oh-tang" - almost like we pronounce it as two syllables, in Ontario at least

​@@creatievzyn It's the same for me living in Nova Scotia.

Binders?

Are they still made by the Duo-Tang company? Their logo would be embossed in the back cover.

So real!! I never say “you’re welcome”, I only every say “no problem”, “no worries”, or “all good”. Saying “you’re welcome” just feels like you’re saying “yea you should be thanking me!” Whereas the other options are more like “oh you don’t even have to thank me, I’m just happy to help!” (Of course, if they didn’t thank me it would be weird).

@@shaengoodall1091 Omg! i thought i was the only person who thought that lol

The greatest insult a Canadian can dish out is calling someone a goof. We all know this to be true. Americans, pray you do not anger us to that point.

@@ryanlutes9833 The only time I've ever heard that dished out is from a crack or cokehead on the street... definitely not in regular lexicon.

@@ericorton9600 Perhaps I betrayed my lineage, then 😝 Maybe it's a west coast thing? Originally from Vancouver. I just recently moved to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Yes, everyone in BC hollers “thank you” when getting off the bus, even from the very back. It’s kind of funny but nice.

Oh, good grief, Why wouldn't you thank the bus driver.

In los angeles most ppl say thanks as well. At least routes I take.

Oh man so true it's probably a commonwealth thing because when I was in New Zealand they did it as well. I felt very much at home hopping off the bus saying thank you. 😂 i'm not sure about other places but in Vancouver the religious lining up for the bus I mean places like schools and institutions it could be a half a block long, a perfectly formed line absolutely no one would dare jump the line. They would be mutiny.

I also thank taxi drivers, train conductors...

Yes. Exactly lol

To be fair, the bump-er will usually apologize too, not just the bump-ee.

​@Vio-ot4ft 100% "oh my gosh, I'm so sorry" "No you're okay! I'm sorry, I was in your way" "No No I was in your way too haha, have a good day!" "Thank you : )" "Thank you : )" Is basically how 90% of interactions go when someone bumps into another. The other 10% is just the bump-ee accepting the apology without apologizing themselves but reassuring you all is good

@@PragmaticBLTthis is exactly how this Manitoban has things go down…

​@@PragmaticBLTabsolutely nailed 90% of my interactions using the overly crowded apartment elevator in Toronto

There are no all season tires. There are winter tires and non-winter tires.

@@copyj8187 3 season tires and winter tires. There are "wintery" all seasons that are less shit, and there are "summery" all seasons which are bad at everything they do.

Fellow scotian, Absolutely on the accents. Like brits nailing exactly which city or town based on your accent, it's the same here. The most noticible nationally famous accents are probably "hoser" and "newfies". But within scotia, south shore, the islanders (cape breton), annapolis, and the various regions of HRM (Halifax regional Municipality) are probably the most distinguishable. Spryfielders, for example are immediately telling on where they're from.

Man, I embarrassed myself on my first trip to the States when I was a teenager. I got Iced Tea with my meal, and went and told the manager their machine was broken only to discover the iced tea was just unsweetened haha Then I said sorry, obviously.

New brunswick here, our accents around the province sound nothing like what he did 💀💀

I love this one because it's kind of recent like in the last 10 years but it's very prevalent all across the country.

@@wendytube007 its been a thing in bc for at least 20 years

😂😂😂 Exactly

Yeah, but no, y'know 😅

“No, yeah” means yes and “yeah, no” means no

Lol. I use make it prepare ... never fix. I'm Canadian lol

I use "fix".

As a Canadian, I have often heard and used "fix" dinner...

Fix or not... No American will ever fix KRAFT DINNER. :)

Also I hear Supper from my older Canadian fam members. They never say dinner

i say sorry to my cat, sometimes inanimate objects. canada (especially NS) is so rough, because when you're holding the door someone tries to hold it for you and you end up fighting with kindness.

​@@imlimpoism9260Yep. Had a woman apologize for not holding the door for me as she didn't see men when I was about 20 feet behind her (she heard me use the door and turned around).

I've apologized to inanimate objects as well.

I once walked into a wall and said “Oh whoops! I’m so sorry!” And then realized what I did and just looked at the wall thinking “what the…”

Also props for 'cheque' vs 'check'.

And measuring distance in time makes sense, because if you’re going through the city, 2km could take 20-30 minutes. But on the highway, 20-30 mins could get you 20-30km. And we might factor in traffic rush hour(s).

If we bump, you apologize for bumping me and I apologize for being in your way. Mutual acknowledge of fault and then we move on.

​@@ms-literary6320 💯% agreed👍

Sorry, I zigged when I should have zagged.

We say "Sorry" so much, that they legally made it so that the word can't be taken as an admission of guilt in a legal context.

That is a true fact about Canada. Politicians frequently apologize to different groups of people who have abused in the past despite them having done no real or intential harm to those people.

At the federal level and also in the provincial laws of BC and Ontario...

I believe that's an ontarian provincial law

One of the reasons we take our shoes off is because of winter. When we come back from outside our shoes/boots are all wet and dirty and nobody likes a wet and dirty floor. Also the politeness

Doctors could not say sorry if something went wrong because it could be used in court as evidence of malpractice. A lot of times the patient simply wanted an apology without assigning blame.

Bedbound in hospital after surgery, I did the same thanking, and why not? Able to reach my phone, I ordered a giant fruit creations bouquet to be delivered to that nursing station with a card, "To my wonderful nurses!"

My saying thank you for a meal has become a known thing in my family. It's not that no one else says thank you, it's just I always the first person to say it and that gets the ball rolling for everyone else. Apparently they noticed it when I was working at a camp and no one knew who was going to get the thank you's started. And then it came up again last year because at my brother's graduation brunch I walked up to a worker on our way out and thanked them for the meal (I did it because it was specifically at the federated college and set up by the college's cafeteria staff. I probably wouldn't have done it if it was at an actual restaurant.).

Its our health care when you need it its there and no charge for meals..

Nurse here. I can’t tell you how many times I give someone an injection of medication and they thank me for it. 🤣

@@joygernautm6641 we appreciate youuuu

Yes, thank you. Not all toques have pompoms.

I won't wear a toque without a pom pom

Americans call the toque without pompom a Beanie.

The pompom was added to protect sailors from hitting their heads on the ship's low ceilings.

Everyone in this thread is spelling tuque wrong

Saying sorry if someone bumps into you is equivalent to "no harm done, carry on."

We also say "sorry" when we bump into inanimate objects.

​@@nancyhastings-trew6106 I'm Canadian, I beat up objects when I bump into them lol.

I find its kinda like we understanding that the person probably didn't mean to run into you either and unless something breaks or you get hurt then the "sorry" is exactly like everyone was saying, you can think of it as like "im all good and dont really want to be bothered more right now haha"

sorry, can I get by you please... thanks... have a good one ❤

Usually I end up making it worse by apologizing. 'You don't need to thank me every time I top up your water.' 'Oh sorry, I'm Canadian and do it by habit'. 😅

@@SMKollapse yes! I’m sorry. My husband is American and it makes him laugh every time I apologize.

It's from a TV commercial from 1999. Now I feel old

YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE HOUSE HIPPO ADS. Could have sworn they where still on TV back then, only coming off tv in the 2010's.

You’re likely too young to have seen the commercials in the wild

It's okay. I'm 43 and don't know what it is...

The free channels cbc and ctv aired it AFAIK, like "this program you watched is fiction". Basically if you watched TV after-school, you would see the commercial.

When my British relatives see shoes lined neatly by the door, they know the Canadians have arrived.

Plus we can end up tracking in snow AND mud on the same day lol

And salt! lol

​@spigette THE SAAAAAALT!!! So much tears, for so many reasons!! 😅😅😅😢😢😢

I don't understand how Americans never take their shoes off inside. Ya'll still get snow and rain, and even if you live in SoCal or something, the ground is still dirty lol.

Gutter is for bowling or dirty minds. 😂

I think I say "eaves" but not the others

As a Canadian, in my 34 years of life I've never heard that word once. I've always heard gutter.

lol i also say eavestrough.

Gutters are where drunks fall into on their way home

Greatest Canadian insult: saying "You're welcome" to someone when you hold the door for them and the don't say thank you as they walk by, they know they just got slapped in the face.

@@ericorton9600 Ha! I am in the U.S. right now and just did that today when I held the door for an entire family and they just walked through. So I said, "Thank you." for them. I am not even sure they heard me.

Sometimes they have weird reactions to it. Years and years ago an American man insinuated I was hitting on him because I was holding the door open 😂some other people I met had similar experiences so it wasn't a one off😂

@@brokefangmagepunk3685 Oh my goodness.

Yesss you got it

Or maybe mls and grams

Oh, I had never noticed that before, but you are correct!

@@melissawhite218And yesterday I saw a video of a person measuring “three fourths of an inch”. 😁

I mentioned that one in another comment as well. Definitely quarters instead of forths.

Absolutely correct. We all say our measurements corretly in Canada eh!

curious where you are - out west we would politely mention it

Na. We don't really care if they trip.

Alberta - most of us care if you trip.

@@carolereichert8844 most of us dont care if someone doesnt tie their shoes. We just know the outcome and think they are stupid for not tying the laces in the first place

@@ce3547if they trip it’ll just be funny as f

Thats only us old people though 😂

​@@DeepBlue7Nooo! I'm not quite 30 yet!! 😱😭 and I did the victory lap!

I get this lol

same!

Me too lol

So me.

I feel like the tree, door, or light pole really needs to know how much I'm not mad at it though lol

Good catch!

As a Canadian I hate "lie" being synonymous with getting down on a surface. You don't "tell falsehoods" low.

@@XopheAdethri lie down, is the command, or the action, lay down is the result.

You lie down. Someone else lays you out.

@@gwouru I command my dog to lay down.

Right?? Doesn't it seem backward, that they should have the bigger words/names after Junior and Senior???

I always thought 'junior' was grade 8 Had that one wrong, never would have guessed it to be grade 11.

“Senior” was intuitive enough, at least since in French schools we’ll say “finissant(e)” for 12th graders, but the other names always confused me when watching American TV.

​@InoraPhoenix I'm in a French school and we don't even have twelfth grade...

@@alexandraw909 Why would the length of the word have anything to do with it? So bizarre. But the freshman is fresh. The sophomore is showing a little learning (look up the soph- root), then junior being lower or younger than the senior or the elder. It's logical.

No, that's not it at all. People take off their shoes so they don't track dirt, mud, snow into someone's house.

No, it's cuz it's dirty in the house. That's the reason I've been told to leave my shoes on. Usually young guys. 😂

I agree, shoes in the house is rude. And same with bare feet. Both set my nerves on edge, but I would never say anything to a guest who doesn't take their shoes off. I would just clean the floor after. If I'm wearing flip flops to someone's house I always keep a pair of socks in my purse so that my feet won't be bare in their house.

Canadian. My buddy never cleans his floors so he insists we leave them on.

My household has two cats and a dog. Our floors ARE dirty, no matter how often we clean, lol.

We were in Florida in January and were swimming in the ocean, the hotel waiter asked me if I was Canadian and I said yes, how did you know- and he said look around… NOBODY was in swimsuits or in the ocean of hotel outdoor pool… it was 78 degrees out…

@@PERL60especially if you're a vancouverite you can't tolerate heat. in most years it never hits 78 in vancouver at ALL

Here's one better: dad was in dubai and there was an indoor ski hill. You could tell the canadians as they were the only ones skiing in shorts and a t shirt 😂😂

Oh! Good catch!! Until you said it, I didn't even realize that lol

It took me a long time to catch on because Americans very seldom say shone, they’re much more likely to say shined. I finally caught on while listening to audiobooks.

Doesn’t work for me

⁠, how do?

@@shinyy8918how so?

FLATWARE?! what in sam H.E. double hockey stick is that? some kind of new flip flop invention?

Try asking for a serviette. Admittedly that might just be us old folks:)

Yup, I asked for cutlery in Virginia and got a uh-wha? Also pecan pie (not pee-can but p'c-con)

@@paddington1670 according to the Cambridge Dictionary 'flatware' is US origin, but I definitely heard it when I was a kid (80s-90s) so it's not that new, just not commonly used in Canada.

pretty sure you were just dealing with a moron. americans say cutlery....i think lol im assuming.

And Newfoundland is always pronounced wrong lol

I have never heard that, and I work with people in both locations.

@@jenniferdnoseworthy2348 But newfoundlanders don't really care how you say it.

Newffenland

@@paddington1670 With the accent on "land".

Given all the fake AI images out now, they need to bring it back.

I'm still mad about house hippos and I'm 35 now 😂

I have a house hippo. She has her own basket with dryer lint and odds 'n' sods. There is also a Part 2 to the House Hippo PSA that was released only a few years ago.

I have shocked friends while eating ketchup with my fries and gravy. It is not always a widely done thing in Canada.

@@tohrurikku My daughter mixes her gravy and ketchup together, then dips her fries in it.

I was visiting my in-laws in the States and when they made fries for supper, I asked if they had any vinegar. They asked why and when I said to put on my fries she brought over a huge jug of it that I struggled to lift let alone pour. They only use it for cleaning (or pickling) I was surprised because I assumed they had come across it in their many stays visiting relatives in Canada. (I love malt vinegar too) Yes, gravy on fries was a thing before poutine ever made it countrywide.

@@catherinetodd5163 I only do vinegar on fries from certain restaurants

​@@tohrurikkutry ketchup and swiss chalet sauce

I think you accidentally typed a link in your comment

@@Speedy_taco_productions yes that was an accidental.

OMG The cat is the one I apologize to the most. More than my mother!

😂😂😂 Cats are deserving, man

Ain't that the truth.

Well they do have built in murder mittens 😂

I even apologize and say “sorry” to an inanimate object if I stumble/bump into it 😆

This has always been my giveaway on vacations to the States.

Sometimes when I would hold the door for the next person especially if I a female was holding the door for a male, I would make the comment. “Beauty before the beast “ I love the surprised look they give me and the little chuckle. My thought is if they were having a bad day, I said something to make them smile

Some places the bathroom is replaced with the “Shitter”

Not all toques have pompoms

Newfoundland pronounced New-fun-land

Hog town and T.O. come to mind. The big smoke as well. Was raised east of T.O.

Bonus: it's Vangcouver not Vancouver 🤣

GTA it's Etobicoke, Scarborough, Spadina, Eglinton, Queen's Quay... 😅

@@homiwanI have never noticed that but that is so true!!

@@homiwan in the dictionary it's van, BC residents do tend to say vang

That is so true!!

We apologize for everything, sorry about that.

I did this once in a farmers market here in Calgary and someone who was visiting from Texas observed that and remarked how odd that was. Two Canadians bumping into each other and saying 'sorry' to each other was genuinely something he didn't think was real.

and “oop” like “oop sorry!”

YES! I was thinking this. Even if I have been bumped into, the Sorry is coming out of both our mouths at the same time! 😂

Yes, children learn to express appreciation for a service. I once was in a diner with an acquaintance from India. I was quite surprised when he asked the 😅, "Bring me some ..." No "please". I gently explained that please should be used. Same in a taxi, but not Uber.

Hmm because I say "thank you" to servers all the time I didn't think it was that odd or unusual. 🤷

Really! I thought that was just common courtesy.

I get spotted as a Canadian for this as well.

That's sad Americans don't thank their waiters or waitresses. I would just think it's polite. It should be said more often in the U.S. in my opinion. You can never be too polite.

SHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

don't spread the real reason behind house hippo's to the rest of the world they are real

@@alexandraw909 hahahahahahaahaha

@@alexandraw909 😂😂😂😂

But they're such cute pets, so we all got one... or more

That is because a bathroom has a bath in it. Otherwise it is a washroom.

No bathtub in a public tolit😂 washroon is correct

Same same I will sometimes say bathroom at home but out is always washroom.

I will always wash when I go to the toilet but I don’t always take a bath. 🤷‍♀️

Yep had to have those duotangs. Several - fun part deciding which subjects got which colour. Yes whenever I hear 12, 5th,etc grade or middle school ( versus elementary school) I know I’m talking with an American Yes why people walk around the house with shoes on is just beyond me. Why you want all that street gunk all through your house and sometimes on the furniture too. Not nice. Yes we are very polite compassionate citizens 👍☺️and yes yes it’s Calgry 2 syllables. Yeah you got it 👍

Funny that Duo-Tang folders were manufactured by the Duo-Tang company, founded in Chicago in 1931 but became a generic name in Canada. Say "Duo-Tang" and I know it is a folder with metal tabs/prongs as opposed to Tyler Bucket's description 🤣 "it's got three of the little grabby thingies that you bend over your papers"

spoken like someone who never saw/was the one who threw them across the room into the storage bin for fun

@@Colleen...O.Canada... Shouldn't it be a Tri-Tang if it has 3 grabby thingies not Duo as in two? Could not help myself.

I thinks its just fun to say and thats why we dont call it a folder

@@toddstevens13 I cannot disagree with you. CBC - According to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Duo-Tang is a "proprietary" term (i.e., a company enjoys trademark protection) for a type of folder for looseleaf paper. Centis Consumer Products, which owns Duo-Tang Inc., claims that the clasping mechanism was invented by a man working in a hayloft on the outskirts of Chicago in 1932. As some of us may remember from our school days scribbling in Duo-Tangs, duo is the Latin word for "two," while tang is an Old Norse word for a sharp metal object that is fastened to a handle. A product whose name became a generic name (Kleenex = tissue) is a huge marketing gift. I don't know why the name is not well known in the US as it was a US product and is still sold on US sites as Duo-tang. I can only think that Canadians are more compliant than Americans. You sell us a product called X and we call it X ...go figure 🤣. Now that I have your attention, let's discuss U. No, not "you" but the letter U ...time to return to the correct spelling of words such as "colour" 🤣. Cheers.

Yes! Exactly!

Actually, if you're from Toronto or surrounding area, it's pronounced To-ron-o. The second T is silent.

cal-gree and tor-on-o

@@xald1234114 I'm from Calgary that's not how we say it

No, he really wasn't saying Toronto properly at all. He said it with three syllables. It only has two. Tronno.

​@@gamergrl6The first o is pretty much silent also. It really only has two syllables.

it's just logical, primary instead of kindergarden, which is whatever, grade 0 basically. Then grade 1-12, then you're done. no switching it up. you should be able to count to 100 by the end of first grade.

It's primary in the east and kindergarten in the west. I was born in nova Scotia and went to primary. But my kids were born in the west and went to kindergarten.

@@crooker2​​⁠I’ve always heard people use primary school and elementary school interchangeably to mean junior kindergarten through to grade 6. Junior kindergarten and senior kindergarten are a part of primary/elementary school.

That is funny, being scolded for apologizing. 😅

I hate being scolded for apologizing! It just triggers an apology / scolding loop. "I'm sorry" "don't be sorry" "oh... sorry about that." "stop saying sorry! "aaaaah! I'm sorry!!!!!"

Only in America eh.

@@rosered103 It was an American Clerk working in Canada, her Southern accent and calling every one Darling is an easy giveaway to knowing what Country she's from. She is a kind and helpful Clerk, I think I threw her for a loop when I said I'm sorry, I'm sure her Co-Workers told her it's a Canadian thing. lol If you're able to laugh at yourself it makes Life a lot easier.

@@WayneShulson I was working at The Westin in Calgary a woman from southern US was checking in with our clerk from New Zealand and the lady said, 'Oh is that how yall talk here?'

No Mrs. Roberts, I want to go to the can. You know where the cats take a dump.

Oh man these were the 'I don't know, CAN you?' teachers if you didn't use 'May I'. 😅 Nothing like teaching your kids with a bunch of good old passive aggressive snark. 😅

It's a Western Canadian thing. They'll also just stare at you, then your shoe and back at you.

@@ToworshipHIMilive1 I am from Western Canada. If you see that someone's laces have come undone you might mention it to save them from tripping but what they do is their own business and no one is going to stare at them. That is nonsense.

@@ToworshipHIMilive1 Western Canadian all my life. Never heard of the shoelace thing.

I must admit I kind of done it a few times automatically. It is more when the person looks like they are not used to having their shoe laces untied, or are carrying things and are at serious risk to tripping.

I'm Canadian and will stare at your untied shoelaces but will probably not say anything just incase you are aware and purposely left it that way but if i do say something it will be kinda blurted out

🤣🤣🤣 When my younger sister was a toddler learning to walk and talk, while she was in the living/dining room, my mother (from the kitchen) could hear her say _“Sorry about that!”_ every time she bumped into the furniture. It's become a thing of legend in the family-one I've told my sister's kids and grandkids.

I do that too lol

It’s so automatic- I’ve apologized to furniture, too! That said, I’ve also used a snarky ‘Sorry!’ on a couple of occasions. Usually gaggles of teenagers who aren’t paying attention. 😁

French here, but living in Canada since 2004. I do apologize to furniture too now, so it is a reflex AND contagious 😂

Really deep down it's all about guilt and shame. Lol😂

'specially in July

I stayed at an airbnb room in california. I always took my shoes off and left them by the door. Their review of me on airbnb mentioned it, it stood out so much to them.

People just don't appreciate winter spike shoes in the living room

And somebody worked hard to keep the floors clean 😉

I found that it's the snowshoes. They tend to mark up the hardwood floors.

I just would have assumed they were local. That kind of behaviour was part of the culture shock I endured when I immigrated from Canada to Alberta.

@@brianbenoit6883go to any rural Alberta town and people will wave and say hi even if they don’t know you. Rural Alberta is great.

@@brianbenoit6883 _“That kind of behaviour was part of the culture shock I endured when I immigrated from_ [sic] _Canada to Alberta.”_ 🤣🤣🤣 Indeed. Alberta is a country made entirely of its own arrogant self-importance. And it's contagious to immigrants… be warned and remain vigilant, least ye become one of them. 🙃 Back during Expo86, Alberta had a rather amusing tourism catchphrase at its Expo pavilion: _“Alberta: Beyond the supernatural.”_ It was a play on BC tourism's catchphrase: _“Super Natural British Columbia.”_ I often quipped then (and still do today), that Alberta was certainly _‘beyond the supernatural’_ … it was _outside the realm of reality all together._ 🤔😂 BTW, it's _emigrate,_ not _immigrate._ One doesn't _immigrate from_ a place, you _immigrate to_ a place. i.e: You _emigrated from_ Canada to Alberta… or you _immigrated to_ Alberta from Canada. Cheers from the _‘wet coast’._

Has Alberta separated? Did I miss something?

​@@Richmond_HillMight as well. They are more like Americans than Canadians.

For me, it was OAC

​@@Salicat99 Yes, OAC (Ontario Academic Course or Curriculum) and Grade 13 were interchangeable. Grade 13/OAC if you want to go to University, or graduate at grade 12 if you want to go to college.

not a thing in Manitoba to this day.

They were talking about getting rid of Grade 13 when I was in public school (grades 1-6). I was decades past it when they finally did

@@imisstoronto3121 I think they got rid of grade 13 in 1988 or 89, and replaced it with OAC, which is practically the same. I don't know when they finally removed OAC after that.

"We are not Communists after all."

I wouldn’t dream of walking into someone’s home and not taking my shoes off!

Why did I read this in a german accent

Yes, and even the way you pronounce it is a dead giveaway. I was in a bar in Washington state and I said “sorry “. A guy at the next table said, “oh you’re from Canada “. We say sore-E and Americans say “sari”. I get called out all the time:)

It's muscle memory at this point-

I never heard beanie or toque until the last Canadian Olympics. It was always a ski cap. A beanie was that awful thing I had to wear as a Brownie. Toque was a noise I'd never heard a person make before!

​@@jenniferpearce1052 The French-Canadian word "toque" , first appeared in this context around 1870. The fashion is said to have originated with the coureurs de bois, French and Métis fur traders, who kept their woollen nightcaps on for warmth during cold winter days. Modern iterations may or may not have a pompom on top.

We had grade 13 in Ontario until 1988. Toronto was pronounced more like Toron-no.

Yep! Trawna and Calgree.

People in the region typically pronounce it "Tronno" , i.e. we just drop the second "T".

Toque is a wool stretch hat because of the snow & the-30C temperatures

Not to mention public bathroom yuckieness that gets on your shoes when you use the bathroom at school, restaurants the mall etc.

That's what I called my male teachers all through elementary and high school as well. Although we called our female teachers, Ms, Miss, or Mrs So-and-so, all our male teachers were Sir.

Yes, two VERY different things, although a Canadian might throw on a toque to go outside for a toke in the winter. 😂

XD

He's only been doing this for two years... You can't expect him to know how to pronounce a words he's heard only hundreds of times...

actually it's tuque. with a U

But we're very familiar with both.

I remember that, for sure! And we used to get 'Beep' to drink as a snack in school.

It's spelt foolscap? FOOLSCAP? I thought it was fullscap, oh I am so glad I never tried to spell that.

Very british.

Ive never heard of that.

Looseleaf!

yes "scooch"!

Chesterfield IS A TOWN IN England WHERE THEY FIRST WERE MADE A high quality spring sofa. sofa was just cheap stuff

@@bunzeebear2973 Here. chesterfield/couch is a different size than a sofa or loveseat. The quality term is lost. But tons of things are named for where they are from, like champagne.

Yeah our college is what they call “community college”

the chesterfield couch was a specific type of couch named after an actual man who created it, and he was the Earl of Chesterfield. it was a lower couch closer to the floor, and the back is the same height as the arms so it allowed gentlemen to sit upright and back without ruining or creasing their suits. the couch became so popular that eventually with time the name chesterfield became synonymous with all couches. thats what i remember reading on them atleast.

With a question mark, though.

oh yeah definitely with a question mark.

Not always. Sometimes it is an exclamation mark, or - if you're one of those - an interrobang.

3 meanings: "Sorry?" is also an alternate to "Pardon?" when you don't hear someone.

also as excuse me... sorry, I just need to get by, please.

Beyond a brand name, it's also a description-of-function. There are two (duo) metal bars (tangs) that split apart to hold the papers in place, it's what the metal fasteners are called.

"easy" removal of pages? from the back only. It's the worst invention for children to learn to organize a binder. Just skip duotangs and get your children 3 ring binders, dont torture them with duotangs.

@@paddington1670 Duotangs were good for organizing reports and projects The 3 ring binders were for day to day notes which constantly needed updating

I'm so old that I print large pdf documents, because my brain assimilates things better from paper than from a screen, somehow. Duotangs are perfect for holding things like that, but admittedly a pain in the butt if you need to access a single sheet.

I figured that is WHY we learned to count.Besides when you are a SENIOR ISN'T THAT 65+

When I was at university (UBC) first year students were 'frosh'

I actually asked an American friend to explain it to me cause I would hear the terms on American tv and movies. I figured out senior and freshman but sophomore and junior eluded me.

In Canada freshman is only used for first year university students.

​@@ThomasJMBorn and raised in Canada. I have never heard of this or used this.

@@personincognito3989 it's more of a slang term on campus then in general use. The term frosh also gets used to hence things like Frosh week.

@@ThomasJM that’s more of a eastern Canadian thing as well, I think.

We say freshman,sophomore,junior and senior for college designation.