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HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS
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It's about the differences in dialects.
http://web.camaross.com/bb/Forum16/HTML/005847.html

I can add to this discussion....

Hey Hawkeye and PoSSum............The wires that run past Bragg-Smith Driving School are called POWER LINES

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JohnS
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I'm glad I own an SS, eh! I don't have to keep explaining that Zed 28 is the real name for a Zee 28.
Then there's the talk aboot the colours of the cars.

Hey, I just got used to saying Oregun, instead of Oregone.

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poSSum
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quote:
Originally posted by HTWLSS:
Hey Hawkeye and PoSSum............The wires that run past Bragg-Smith Driving School are called POWER LINES

Nope .... just entered my electricity bill ... cheque (check) is payable to Manitoba Hydro ... and all the lines belong to them.


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HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS
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Hydro Lines?

Hydro = water

They don't carry WATER......they carry POWER.

Power Lines.


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JohnS
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You're right Teri. Hydro does mean water. Up here in the Great White North, we run water through the lines, it freezes solid (cold up here, eh!), and then conducts electricity.

PS: If you believe this, I've got a purple 35th Anniversary LS-6 SS in my garage I'd like to sell you.


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HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS
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quote:
Originally posted by JohnS:
............................ I've got a purple 35th Anniversary LS-6 SS in my garage I'd like to sell you.

Only if it's the one with Yellow stripes will I even consider it....


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JohnS
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That's the one - two yellow stripes front to back - first $40,000 Canadian or $2.50 American takes it.
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HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS
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A check/cheque is in the mail.......
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Those people have WAY TOO much time on their hands!

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One thing that drives me nuts: Cars have a trunk or a hatch, not a "boot". A "boot" is something you wear on your foot. Or does "foot" mean something different in British English?

It was interesting to see the discussion on "y'all": I didn't realize that people weren't aware of how it was spelled. It's funny: I'm 22 years removed from Texas, yet an ocasional "y'all" will slip into my speech. And, if I start talking with anyone from the south, I'll very easily slip into a drawl.

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I like "y'all" regardless of where it's from .. as in "Y'all have a good day, Eh!!"
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HotWheelSS aka HTWLSS
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I'll throw in an American "HUH?"

(I've been informed by some of our Canadian friends in B.C. that "HUH?" sounds harsh)


Oh, we also use the "bathroom" in America for going potty.......Canadians use the "washroom".

Canadians just sound more polite, huh?


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MaryandRalph
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Here is a few,


youens = PA way of saying all of you, or could be a notheren way for yawl

Soda = not sure were this came from but most want a coke.
go figure.

Ralph


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DaddySS
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Mine are "rooter" instead of router. I keep wanting to tell them that's what roto uses, not a device to direct data - data not dahta.

Also, when the brits send a memo in Word, and you update it, it does the spell check in the queens english, so realize etc. come up as mispelled!

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Hawkeye
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Guess I got in this a little late.

You mean the "Hydro Lines?"

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quote:
Originally posted by HTWLSS:
I'll throw in an American "HUH?"

The one that gets me in service in U.S. restaurants, we say "thank you" .... the waiter/waitress responds "Uh Huh".

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Oh, we also use the "bathroom" in America for going potty.......Canadians use the "washroom".

Not always ... on the way to Bowling Green the message on the Walkie Talkie was "Curtis needs to stop for a s##t"

[ 03 October 2001: Message edited by: poSSum ]


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NATESS
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now teri, i thought that electricity ran through those lines. if you want to get technical (or is it spelled tequenical in canada ), then they are called electrical lines .

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JohnS
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It's not spelled "tequenical", it's spelled toque-nical.


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