# It's Canada, not Canadia! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 2, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954 "2006-07-02T18:10:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/41 "2006-07-02T21:08:41Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > There is no point in using “Canadia”. It’s an attempt at being funny, which I find irritating. The America/American thing is because idiots insist it should be “Canadia” so that it “matches” “America” when talking about the countries’ residents. Not everything has to be the same! Your reasoning makes no sense. “Canada” matches “America” more closely than “Canadia” matches “America.” Or perhaps you’ve confused America with Cambodia. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/42 "2006-07-02T21:16:54Z")
Is it just me, or does “Canadia” seem a more logical name for the country? I mean, “Americans” are from “American,” so “Canadians” should be from “Canadia.” Ok, it’s _is_ just me then. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/43 "2006-07-02T21:24:46Z")
**Rand McNally** , you’ve just fulfilled one part of the rant. But the whole thing falls apart when you introduce English people from England. French from France. Germans from Germany. Chinese from China. And Dutch from the Netherlands or Holland. Nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/44 "2006-07-02T21:37:29Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, that would be in Florida. Shouldn’t that be _Floridia_? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/45 "2006-07-02T21:39:26Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > But the whole thing falls apart when you introduce English people from England. French from France. Germans from Germany. Chinese from China. And Dutch from the Netherlands or Holland. Nonsense. British people from Britland… ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/46 "2006-07-02T21:47:00Z")
Of course people are going to start doing it all the time now, just out of spite. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/47 "2006-07-02T21:49:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > British people from Britland… How DARE YOU!@\>!? OMG!Onehundredandeleven!! Have some fucking respect! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/48 "2006-07-02T21:58:54Z")
I’d like to know if this is annoying to other [del]Canadans[/del] um [del]Canadianians[/del] er [del]Canadains[/del] residents of that country. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/49 "2006-07-02T22:00:18Z")
_sings_ Blame Canadia, blame Canadia. Yeah guys, it just doesn’t work as well in the meter. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/50 "2006-07-02T22:05:37Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I’d like to know if this is annoying to other [del]Canadans[/del] um [del]Canadianians[/del] er [del]Canadains[/del] residents of that country. No, we’re more likely to use it than anyone else, IME. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/51 "2006-07-02T22:13:31Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Well, where else would you expect to find America’s Foreskin, but on America’s Wang? Looking at [this map,](http://www.ired.com/usa/fl/) it strikes me as ironic that so many Jews have retired to Palm Beach. And so many gays migrated to America’s Spoogewad, Key West. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/52 "2006-07-02T22:16:32Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > Well, you’re fucking wrong. Get over it. Jesus. Anyone else read this in Steve Buschemi’s Fargo character’s voice? Smoke a fuckin’ peace pipe! ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/53 "2006-07-02T22:23:29Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > I’d like to know if this is annoying to other [del]Canadans[/del] um [del]Canadianians[/del] er [del]Canadains[/del] residents of that country. Canadiens. From Canadi. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/54 "2006-07-02T22:25:24Z")
It is worth nothing that the country eally is named Canadia. Trusting in the poor education that Americans get, and a lack of knowledge about geography, they are prepaing for a possible invasion. When our tanks go rolling over the border, they well be met by proud Canadian citizens, and the conversation will go like this: “Ay, aren’t you supposed to be invading Canada?” “Well… yah, that’s what we’re doing.” “No, you read the map wrong. This is Canadia.” “… What?” "Yeah, Americans come from America, New Yorkers come from New York, and Candians come from Canadia. You want the next country over. You were supposed to invade the Canadaians. " “Oh… um… okay. Sorry about that.” ~d&r~ ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/55 "2006-07-02T22:28:34Z")
Really is, even. Yeeeesh. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/56 "2006-07-02T22:34:25Z")
> [@JeffB](#): > > Like mana from heaven. Oh, strike me down if I don’t use the line “like mania from heaven” at the very earliest opportunity. Awesome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/57 "2006-07-02T22:44:13Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Americans come from America, New Yorkers come from New York, and **Candians** come from Canadia. You want the next country over. You were supposed to invade the **Canadaians.** My bolding and you’ve lost me now. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/58 "2006-07-02T22:48:41Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > British people from Britland… Britannia…hmmm…that’s got a ring to it, I’m sure I’ve heard it before… ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/59 "2006-07-02T22:52:09Z")
> [@Chez Guevara](#): > > My bolding and you’ve lost me now. D’oh! Another typo… never mind. Nothing to see here. Move along. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/60 "2006-07-02T23:12:09Z")
I typed in [www.canadia.com](http://www.canadia.com) just to see if anyone had tapped in to the commercial angle. I learned the interesting news that diamonds have been discovered, and are now being mined, in the Northwest Territories. Note it’s NOT www.canadia.ca. The rocks are being sold, naturally, out of New York. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954.md?page=4)