Common mistakes

[Le Messor]

Someone called Sydney the capital of Australia?

It's happened.

Its obviously Melbourne!!

Obviously.

I've always though of Australia as the Canada's Southern Equivilant.

There are a lot of parallels, aren't there? The 39th, I believe, is yours...
Um...

We're both Commonwealth countries, for starters. $1 and $2 coins. (Though no loonies or toonies down here. ) etc...
But, at least nobody confuses 'Canada' with 'Austria'.

- Le Messor
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
- Chekhov

[Le Messor]

[color=blue]Depending on where you live in the U.S. they would be called convienence stores. Or simply gas stations.

In Australia, we call the last 'Petrol Stations', and fill our cars with 'petrol', not gas. It took me a long time to find that out.

17. Canadians generally say "The States" or "the U.S." and not "America."

We use any of the above. I tend to go with The States or the US, but will use America. Not, of course, in the same way that George Bush has been using America for the last few years...

If someone says the word "Yank" or "Yankee" we don't associate that with a certain part of the states, just the whole of America. That what I've heard from many different places from around the world. I know usually noones means anything by it. But like I said non U.S. people, usually don't use the term Yankee in a bad way, so no biggie.

*cough* Um... Actually...

Here in Australia, if we call somebody a 'Yank', we're not doing it to be nice. (I've also heard 'merkin' used, which is worse, because I know what it actually means.) I don't use it myself.

I speak only for my own experiences in my own country.

- Le Messor
"It's so hard to tell if you're Yank, Oz, or Pom."
- Roger Taylor, 'Dear Mr Murdoch'

[Guardian]

Just trying to be diplomatic Le Messor. I know some foriegners use the term Yank, as an insult. Hey I'm from the U.S.A., so I know many other people hate me, just because I was born here in the States. It's just the way it is. And that's ok. 'Cause I don't really care. If people like me or the U.S., great! If not, I could care less.

[Le Messor]

Just trying to be diplomatic Le Messor.

Diplomacy? On the internet?
No wonder I couldn't recognise it!



- LM
"Any man who is not something of a socialist before he is forty has no heart. Any man who is still a socialist after he is forty has no head."
- Wendell L. Willkie (quoted by Richard Norton Smith)

[JohnnyCanuck]

A guy with one leg who ran for charity is one of our greatest heroes.

That's Terry Fox.

The other guy with one leg who ran for charity is long forgotten, and he actually made all the way. But he turned it into personal gain instead of for the cause and history has let him disappear. His name is ***** *****.

Hmm..? Well what do you know about that. Appears he has been eliminated.

JC

[cmdrkoenig67]

Usually when Southerners call us Northerners (here in the U.S.) "Yankees" or "Yanks", they don't use it in a complimentary way...But I guess it can be used descriptively(as in where somebody if from) sometimes too.

Seph's descriptions of Maritime Province sterotyping, remind me of things people many times think or say about Maine here in the states.

We're not all fishermen or reside in little fishing hamlets (nor do we all live on Lobster...I'm allergic)...We don't all say "Ayuh" (Downeast speak for yes), although many in my family do. We don't all live in the woods either (being the most heavily forested state in the U.S. leads many to think this)...Although, Portland is known as the "Forest City". A lot of people (...and I mean citizens of the U.S.) seem to believe Maine is located in Canada...for some strange reason.

Many Mainers say Housecoat, instead of bathrobe too...LOL.

There are many, many French Canadian-descended Mainers(mostly in northern Maine).

Not that this adds much to the conversation..I just thought it was interesting.

Dana

[Le Messor]

Seph's descriptions of Maritime Province sterotyping, remind me of things people many times think or say about Maine here in the states.

I get most of what I know about Maine from one of your better-known residents. A writer in Bagnor... Stephen something...

[cmdrkoenig67]

LOL!

Dana

[Snowsquatch]

Technically, neither the Inuit or Metis are "First Nations." Only Indians are First Nations.

See http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/pr/info/tln_e.html

Aboriginal peoples: The descendants of the original inhabitants of North America. The Canadian Constitution recognizes three groups of Aboriginal people — Indians, Métis and Inuit. These are three separate peoples with unique heritages, languages, cultural practices and spiritual beliefs.

[Snowsquatch]

We wouldn't publicize and empeach a Prime Minister for have sexual relations with a secretary... frankly we'd rather not think about Harper having sex.

The Domi-Stronach "scandal" just became news yesterday.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_3782.aspx

[SephirothsKiller]

A lot of people (...and I mean citizens of the U.S.) seem to believe Maine is located in Canada...for some strange reason.


Not that this adds much to the conversation..I just thought it was interesting.

Dana

It is interesting.

I have no idea why people would think that Maine is Canadian, but an interesting tidbit is this:

During the War of 1812 the British/Canadian army captured Maine. After the war was over when both sides gave all the captured land back, the British took the entire Maine gold reserve back with them. It was used to build Dalhousie university in Halifax.

THE MORE YOU KNOW!

[Mokole]

Oh, here's another 1812 tidbit:

All property was supposed to be returned to the original owner. Americans were mad when the British wouldn't give one kind of 'property' back..... slaves. Seems the British didn't think black people were property.

The More You Know....

[Canucklehead]

Forgot one, Canada does not condone the death penalty and will not extradite a criminal if their country is set on executing them. That could be a story right there. If Nitro(he's not caught yet is he?) ran to Canada and we refused to send him back to the States because they would give him the death penalty. That would make for interesting reading.

[kozzi24]

Dana, you neglected the way Maine bills itself, at least from the signs on the highway...
"The way life should be"
When quoting that, I usually add a "hyuk" at the end

[SephirothsKiller]

At least its less extreme than New Hampshire's "Live Free or Die," slogan. I nearly fell over the first time I saw that on a liscence plate. :P