The Planet D How to Speak Canadian
The Planet D How to Speak Canadian explains the slang a visitor hears across the country, written by Dave Bouskill and Debra Corbeil, the Canadian travel writers behind The Planet D. The entries are grouped into everyday words, food and drink, classic sayings, lifestyle and culture, city and regional nicknames, hockey terms and Quebec expressions, each with a plain meaning and often a sentence showing its use.
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Entries grouped by theme: Canuck, eh, tuque, loonie, toonie, washroom and hydro; Bloody Caesar, double-double, Timbits, Kraft Dinner, poutine and pop; hoser, two-four, chesterfield and darts; the 6ix, Cowtown, The Peg and Newfie; rink rat, deke, goon and chirping; and a Quebec section on dépanneur, frette, char and patente. Most carry a short example sentence.
You read the section that matches where you are going or what you are doing: the food and drink words before a coffee run, the hockey terms before a Monday conversation about the weekend's game. Each entry gives the plain equivalent you already know, washroom for restroom, pop for soda, lineup for queue, so you can map the Canadian word onto your own, and the example sentences show the tone each one carries.
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