# Who wants gold, silver, or parts of Canada? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 12, 2007, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561 "2007-07-12T23:12:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/61 "2007-07-15T04:01:58Z")
Damned Newfies. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/62 "2007-07-15T04:12:37Z")
Raise your hand if you’ve been screeched in! _raises hand_ ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/63 "2007-07-15T04:17:35Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] Raise your hand if you’ve been screeched in! _raises hand_ [/QUOTE] Is this a naughty Dustin Diamond reference? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/64 "2007-07-15T04:56:29Z")
You know, I’ve never been screeched in either… (Fine, you know what? I get all the parks in Canada. Take THAT!) ---
**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 15, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/65 "2007-07-15T05:04:11Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] [QUOTE=Bookkeeper] Nobody from away pronounces Newfoundland correctly, either. [/QUOTE] NEW-fundland, How’d I do? [/QUOTE] “You have to understand Newfoundland.” If you make the last two words rhyme, you’re pretty close for someone who’s from away. > [@Sunspace](#): > > There are Canadians who can’t pronounce “Saskatchewan”? Lots of easterners pronounce the last syllable as “wan” - most of us around here pronounce it “wun”. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/66 "2007-07-15T05:16:41Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] “You have to understand Newfoundland.” If you make the last two words rhyme, you’re pretty close for someone who’s from away. Lots of easterners pronounce the last syllable as “wan” - most of us around here pronounce it “wun”. [/QUOTE] So… NEW-fundlund then? ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/67 "2007-07-15T06:23:03Z")
Enough! From now on, all place names in TimeWinderia will be pronounced phonetically. And if that makes them sound weird, we’ll change the names. We can do that, who’s going to stop us? ---
**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 15, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/68 "2007-07-15T06:33:02Z")
[QUOTE=TimeWinder] Enough! From now on, all place names in TimeWinderia will be pronounced phonetically. [/QUOTE] Chicoutimi? The Okanagan? L’Anse aux Meadows? Bras d’Or Lakes? Iqualiut? Stouffville? Strachan Avenue (the most mispronounced street name in Toronto)? The mind boggles at what **TimeWinder** may come up with… ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/69 "2007-07-15T06:44:27Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Strachan Avenue (the most mispronounced street name in Toronto)? [/QUOTE] Pronounced “throatwarbler mangrove”, right? ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/70 "2007-07-15T06:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Chicoutimi? The Okanagan? L’Anse aux Meadows? Bras d’Or Lakes? Iqualiut? Stouffville? Strachan Avenue (the most mispronounced street name in Toronto)? The mind boggles at what **TimeWinder** may come up with… [/QUOTE] Excellent. The new capitol will be in “Bras or Lakes.” And for the record, the correct answer will be “Bras.” We’ll have to work that into the new National Anthem. Some of the rest of those will be problematical, though. We might have to have a re-smiting from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure. ---
**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 15, 2007, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/71 "2007-07-15T10:10:39Z")
Hereabouts we have commmunities with names such as Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, and Eabametoong. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/72 "2007-07-15T13:14:27Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] Chicoutimi? The Okanagan? L’Anse aux Meadows? Bras d’Or Lakes? Iqualiut? Stouffville? Strachan Avenue (the most mispronounced street name in Toronto)? The mind boggles at what **TimeWinder** may come up with… [/QUOTE] “Iqualuit”? Iqaluit, my friend. Pronounced more like eechaloooiet (hard ch, like in chorus, and barely a t sound at the end). ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/73 "2007-07-15T15:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=Spoons] …Queen Street watering holes financially solvent during the Jazz Fest. I’ve left my responsibilities in capable and willing hands though, and if you cancel the Jazz Fest, what are they and the pubs to do? [/QUOTE] Well, I think we need fewer pubs (which are mostly not great) and more bakeries and Vietnamese restaurants anyway, so I’m not upset. I live on Queen and have strong feelings about the five minute walk to work turning into a twenty-five minute walk, plus screaming people outside my window until five in the morning. Well, yes, I could move, but since I’m in charge anyway, I’ll just cancel it. 😃 ---
**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 15, 2007, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/74 "2007-07-15T15:17:49Z")
[QUOTE=GingerOfTheNorth] “Iqualuit”? Iqaluit, my friend. Pronounced more like eechaloooiet (hard ch, like in chorus, and barely a t sound at the end). [/QUOTE] Sorry. I guess my fingers were on autopilot, and typed the “u” after the “q” without thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/75 "2007-07-15T15:54:39Z")
I’m quietly sneaking in and claiming Niagara Falls. The skylon tower would make a cool house. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/76 "2007-07-15T15:56:25Z")
Oh, and before anyone gets any ideas, I’m claiming sovereignty over Tim Hortons (no apostrophe anymore). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2007, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/77 "2007-07-15T18:02:19Z")
I don’t think anyone’s grabbed the Radium/Invermere area yet - I’ll take that part. And then I’ll let the rest of you come soak in my beautiful hot springs and swim in my crystal-clear lake. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/78 "2007-07-16T02:03:20Z")
Well, if you get Radium Springs, I get Algonquin Park. The new expanded Algonquin Park, that is, which goes as far as Temagami, Burleigh Falls, Pembroke, the Thousand Islands, and Sault Ste. Marie. Basically, if it’s on the Shield and east of Wawa in Ontario, it’s part of the Park. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561/79 "2007-07-16T18:09:06Z")
I want Spirit Lake and that perfect little pool and its little waterfall over the rock ledge in the stream beside the road into Lac Cayamant. (I’ll give up Spirit Lake if I have to.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-wants-gold-silver-or-parts-of-canada/411561.md?page=3)