Things We Wish Americans Knew About Canada.........
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Thank you! I actually knew some of that stuff already! I'm giving myself a gold star. Funny and enlightening info. I like the words gitch and gotch. I am going to use one in a sentence.
I'm refraining from the political threads tonight as I don't wish to I get my gotch in a wad before bedtime.
I'm refraining from the political threads tonight as I don't wish to I get my gotch in a wad before bedtime.
Just read the entire thing, Staro. Where on earth do you find these, eh? I really like some of these links you put up here, my love!
#29 toque...a hat...
Here in the U.P. we wear a "chook" during the winter...knitted wool covers all of the head folded double over the ear...sometimes w/a...pompom? ball? on top sometimes not. I think the word is French...is that how it is pronounced? I've never known how it is supposed to be spelled and I've spelled it the way it is pronounced here. Thought too, that it is something a chef wears. Is that right?
Here in the U.P. we wear a "chook" during the winter...knitted wool covers all of the head folded double over the ear...sometimes w/a...pompom? ball? on top sometimes not. I think the word is French...is that how it is pronounced? I've never known how it is supposed to be spelled and I've spelled it the way it is pronounced here. Thought too, that it is something a chef wears. Is that right?
...the vast unwashed may have made Bieber famous...but Da Yoopers are all on YOU!...and it's still a damn couch!...
This is from the beginning of the Olympics.
And to anyone who saw Argo, Tom tells the story much more accurately in just a few moments.
It is pronounced "toook". A chef wears a chapeau.
No, it is a chesterfield. Mom said so....the vast unwashed may have made Bieber famous...but Da Yoopers are all on YOU!...and it's still a damn couch!...
Not all Canadians like hockey? Well, my mind is officially blown open. 
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Yup - the word toque is pronounced "chook" (well, at least by French people that I know anyway!)
Neesy, we say toook here...long o and a T. Maybe, different regions pronouce it differently.
Never ever heard it pronounced chook.
Though I (and only I) always mispronounce it as toke.
Though I (and only I) always mispronounce it as toke.
Like so many words and phrases here (and elsewhere no doubt), the way a word is pronounced evolves and changes over time. I suspect the French-Canadians (there's quite a few) who came to the U.P. to work in the mines brought the toque with them...and over time as more and more people of other nationalities began to wear them...they also pronounced the word the way they thought it should be...and right or wrong...that is how it stayed. The word Chippewa is a French mispronunciation of Ojibwa...although the Ojibwa have another word for their people that I can't produce here without using a search engine to find a correct spelling...sounds like Ashinawbee...or close but no cigar. But that didn't stop Gordon Lightfoot from using the expression "...the legend lives on from the Chippewa on down..." something something...of the big lake they call Gitchie Gummee...another Indian/Ojibwa expression.
Chinook is a type of Hop. It provides spicy and piney aromas/flavors.
It can be a sofa in Canada all it wants, but here it's a couch... or sometimes a sofa. But usually a couch.
It can be a sofa in Canada all it wants, but here it's a couch... or sometimes a sofa. But usually a couch.
Some of the families I knew in Detroit called their "big sitting on piece of furniture" a Davenport. I call it a couch.. or sofa. If some one offered me a Chesterfield I'd probably try to smoke it.No, it is a chesterfield. Mom said so.
We call pull-out sofas Davenport here. Nate, here, a chinook is a wind that brings warm weather in the winter.
I toss chinooks into a pot of boiling liquid (and a green layer forms on top of the liquid), and then I sit on the couch.
It's just a type of hop... for all I know it could be named after your chinook...