# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/121 "2006-07-04T03:59:01Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > In Maine, there are a lot of people whose ancestors came from Quebec and were originally French speaking. Indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/122 "2006-07-04T04:02:20Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Did the Molsen factory burn down or something? What’s with all the pissed off Canadians this weekend? “Mols **e** n?” "Mols_ **e** _n?’ It’s “Mols **o** n,” you American rat-bastard! get it right can’t you? your post is an obvious example of Americans dissing us… oh forget it. :rolleyes: Oh, and ever since Coors bought out Molson, it’s not much of a national symbol anymore. Joe’s rant now ends, “I am Joe, and I am a mouthpiece for an American multinational with considerable business interests in Canada!” ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/123 "2006-07-04T05:52:14Z")
On Canadia Day, we were paddling down the Kam in a voyageur canoe, under a hot sun, when we passed a lot where several Monson transports were parked. Unfortunately, many of our crew were on the wrong side of 45, and thought the trucks were Molson trucks, so instead of the crew focusing on paddling, we had a crew drifting off into beer dreamland. ---
**Author:** ![kevegan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e68b1a/32.png) [@kevegan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevegan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/124 "2006-07-04T06:36:54Z")
Come on, guys, cut **silenus** a little slack. Anyone who can figure out how to spell “Saskatchewan” is entitled to the odd remission elsewhere. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/125 "2006-07-04T07:52:56Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > Not everything has to be the same! All Chinese people do look alike, however. All inches should be pretty much the same. And we don’t need all those different kinds of toilet paper. ---
**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/126 "2006-07-04T20:43:30Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > Huh. And all this time I took using “Canadia” to be a self-deprecating way of mocking American ignorance about Canada, and have been using it as such. After all, why make fun of someone else when making fun of yourself is so much easier? > > - **WeirdO** , posting from the People’s Republic of Cambridge Bingo! This isn’t a poke at Canada, it’s a pseudo-poke at onesself. Or at least _I’ve_ always thought of it that way. ---
**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 4, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/127 "2006-07-04T21:21:54Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > It really doesn’t depend on context? I mean, we Merkins have a baseball team called the Yankees, but that doesn’t mean that the phrase “Yankees go home” isn’t derogatory when painted on a banner at a war protest. That doesn’t make the word “Yankee” an insult, though, it’s just used to identify which particular group is being insulted. If I say, “All Canadians are morons,” I haven’t turned the word “Canadian” into a derogatory word. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/128 "2006-07-06T04:22:35Z")
> [@kevegan](#): > > Come on, guys, cut **silenus** a little slack. Anyone who can figure out how to spell “Saskatchewan” is entitled to the odd remission elsewhere. 😉 But can he [say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter?](http://seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Proclaimers/Cap-In-Hand.html)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/129 "2006-07-06T04:33:01Z")
> [@Northern Piper](#): > > But can he [say Saskatchewan without starting to stutter?](http://seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Proclaimers/Cap-In-Hand.html)😃 If he’s Stompin’ Tom Connors, he can. “Roll on, roll on, Saskatchewan” ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/130 "2006-07-06T04:37:15Z")
The real question should be whether he can pronounce Saskatchewan properly, in 2 1/2 syllables. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/131 "2006-07-06T04:58:34Z")
Sas-KATCH-wan? ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/132 "2006-07-06T05:12:40Z")
Sa-SKATCH-wun ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/133 "2006-07-06T05:46:47Z")
Wy-O-ming. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/134 "2006-07-06T06:01:29Z")
No no, that’s completely wrong. There’s no O in Saskatchewan. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/135 "2006-07-06T12:55:26Z")
My favorite ginger ale is [Canads Dry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Dry) (oops - obvious typo due to proximity of “s” to “a” which may be a more acceptable explanation to the OP than those previously given. (hey - all the puns and comedy are gone - I had nothing) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/136 "2006-07-06T13:57:21Z")
> [@jali](#): > > My favorite ginger ale is [Canads Dry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Dry) (oops - obvious typo due to proximity of “s” to “a” which may be a more acceptable explanation to the OP than those previously given. > > (hey - all the puns and comedy are gone - I had nothing) Canada Dry isn’t ginger ale! It’s lightly camelized sugar-water. [Vernors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor's) is ginger ale. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/137 "2006-07-06T15:24:51Z")
> [@The Weird One](#): > > … lightly camelized sugar-water. Ewwwwww. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/138 "2006-07-06T15:51:17Z")
Canada Dry and Vernor’s are both sub-standard drinks. Now, for real ginger taste, try [AJStephan’s](http://www.ajstephans.com/) or [Stewart’s](http://www.drinkstewarts.com/flavors.html). Both available in Canada, I think. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/139 "2006-07-06T20:06:10Z")
> [@rayh](#): > > It must be the time of the month then. Canadianas don’t have periods. It’s too cold up there. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2006, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954/140 "2006-07-07T05:11:37Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Canadianas don’t have periods. It’s too cold up there. No, Canadianas do indeed have periods. Even if they’re commatose. On the other hand, we all have colons. Well, except for those with gastrointestinal problems. Some of them only have semi-colons. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-canada-not-canadia/362954.md?page=8)