Also Canadians go to higher learning centers called University, or perhaps Community colleges. We don’t say “college” for a 4 year degree granting institution. College is either privateam or public 2 or 3 year places, often leading to a specific diploma for a trade.
Despite my initial excitement and hopes I haven’t found any places offering anything close to authentic yet. Heck most don’t even use real squeaky cheese curds.
But back to the OP, I am not Canadian but lived close to the border for almost all of my adult life…I hate that while not common with the Vancouver set my friends and I seem to greet each other in a stereotypical Canadian fashion. (according to Letterkenny)
How are you now
Good n you
Not so bad
Good
Can I be voted in as an honorary Canadian if I can quote Corner Gas but have never seen a full episode of 90210?
Although I am afraid that admitting I prefer Whitehorse to Vancouver would probably get me committed.
I’ve never noticed it before. I grew up in southwestern Ontario, but have been in the Ottawa area for almost half my life.
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I didn’t even realize that it was a local thing until someone from TO asked me why everyone around here says “in nets”.
Camps are all over Maine. Hunting camp, fishing camp or just plain camp. ‘Been to camp yet?’. ‘No, roads are all shit, mud up to the axels.’
When we were kids in public school we were in Grade 1, Grade 2, etc. not First Grade, Second Grade, etc.
Another one, more about language, is tire centre. It’s pretty much only in Canada you’ll see it spelled that way.
Did anyone mention “Bunny Hug” yet? (Saskatchewanese for “hooded sweatshirt”)
I don’t think “Gainer” is limited to Canada. Its origin is from an acrobatic stunt. Obviously if someone spectacularly falls down, it would resemble said stunt…until the end.
…also in high school we don’t say “Freshman”, “Sophomore”, “Junior”, “Senior” we say “Grade 9” (or “niner”), “Grade 10”, “Grade 11”, “Grade 12”.
I don’t know if it is a Canadianism or not, but in the southern Ontari-o-i-o-i-o high schools that I attended, grade nine students were called gummers.
F!rosh is a commonly used term for Skule first year university students. I doubt if others would use it.
Similarly at university, we use 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year. Some may refer to 1st as their their Freshman year or Frosh collectively. 4th year may be referred to as Honours year depending on your degree program.
Yep, I believe it was bubble-gummers originally.
I’ve never heard of “gummers” and I grew up in almost as southern Ontario as you can get.
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In Newfoundland, the -isms practically become a foreign language. Newfoundlanders are very reluctant to use the past tense of verbs, and instead of “did”, ,would say “is after doing”. As in “I’m after warning him not to do that”, or “My sister’s after giving me this necktie”. Even very articulate speakers would continue to use this construction in folksy talk with their families or neighbors. I’ve heard it in speeches in the provincial legislature. “The government are after raising taxes”.
Yes, but they mean different things in different provinces.
In Quebec, it means the same as a green left arrow.
In BC, it means pedestrians may hit a button and the light will soon change to yellow.
…and, previously in Ontario, “Grade 13”. Grade 13 was an optional fifth year of high school for people going to university.
And I’ve started to see people using “uni” for university. I think that expression might have come from Australia.
Speak for yourself, grade 13 was mandatory for everyone in my grade and above. The year behind me had the option. They eliminated it completely when I was still working at the campus pub. I checked IDs of kids that were 17!?
When did you graduate from high school? I graduated in '81. Grade 13 was definitely optional for me then. I got an Ontario Secondary School Graduation Diploma after Grade 12 and an Ontario Secondary School Honours Graduation Diploma after Grade 13.
People who didn’t go on to Grade 13 tended to go out and get jobs at GM and end up with lots of pay, toys, a house, a spouse, kids, etc, early, while we who went on to university were still struggling through debt. Of course, that was when high-paying jobs that only required a high-school education were still easy to find…
ETA: I was never quite sure how the transition away from Grade 13 actually worked. I know it was replaced by something called OACs for a while, and after that, there was just Grade 12. Did a lot of the Grade 13 material get scrunched into earlier years, or did the universities expand their introductory courses?
Same here. Grade 13 was not mandatory–at least, not according to the school system. It was entirely possible to graduate an Ontario high school after Grade 12, if one did not want to attend Grade 13. I was class of '79, by the way.
I don’t know, but I do recall trying to explain Grade 13 to my American wife (now my ex). She had a hard time grasping the concept: “So, if you wanted to go to an Ontario university, you had to take that year?” We went on like this for a while, and she gradually allowed that what I did in Grade 13 would probably translate to AP credits. At any rate, I do recall her saying (paraphrased), “So you had five years of high school and four years of university–hell, with that, you would have got a Master’s at my undergrad school in Colorado.”
According to Wiki Wiki OAC The government of Ontario did not abolish Grade 13 until 1984.
I attended HS from 83-88 and was the last year of Grade 13.
All students starting in Grade 9 in 1984 and afterwards were on the OAC system.
That said, I believe you could fasttrack by taking basic credit requirements and forgoing electives, spares etc… to get your diploma in 4 years.
I had a couple of friends that started University, dropped out went back to HS for the 2nd semester to take OACs, got higher marks, then reapplied for different university programs for the next year. At the time, I thought they were crazy but iy was brilliant.
I found that 1st year credits were almost identical to grade 13 courses, especially accounting, algebra, and calculus.