What words to Canadians say different than Americans?
Canadian American alcohol, liquor, alcohol, liquor, Daddy’s juice (Northern ), Daddy’s soda (East Texas) abattoir slaughterhouse more……….. http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/… CANADIAN VOCABULARY There are approximately two thousand words or expressions that are native to Canada, or which have a meaning peculiar to or characteristics of Canada. The latter words and expressions are referred to as Canadianisms. The term Canadianisms can also be extended to include words borrowed from other languages which do not appear in other varieties of English. A good deal of Canadianisms were founded out of necessity; they describe features, objects, institutions which were unknown to the European experience or noticeably different from things existing elsewhere. In other words, they are reminiscent of the early days of white settlement, primarily composed of American Loyalists and Brit
