40 things Canadians say that Americans don't understand
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Friday, July 1, is Canada Day.
The holiday is essentially the Canadian version of America's Independence Day.
It's a celebration of our confederation as a country within the British Empire in 1867.
Now it's not always easy to spot a Canadian in the US. For the most part, we sound pretty similar. We share a lot of values with Americans and can identify with the same cultural references.
But we do have our own vernacular, and there's a lot more to it than "eh" and "aboot."
Here's a list of Canadian slang words and expressions that many Americans would not recognize.
Keener: A person who is extremely eager or keen. Used interchangeably with terms like "brownnoser" and "overachiever" among Canadian schoolchildren.
REUTERS/Peter JonesChirping or beaking: Making fun of someone. (Chirping is used in eastern Canada; beaking is used in parts of western Canada.)
YouTube/LetterkennyWatch a prime example of chirping here.
Gotch/gitch/gonch: Tight men's underpants known elsewhere as tighty-whities — e.g., "Do you separate your gitch from your socks when you do laundry?"
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