See thread name. Add an s for plural.

I miss the point.

Well, we're often stereotyped for saying all sorts of things that we don't all universally use across the country, the most common of which is "aboot" which is spoken pretty much like that in Newfoundland, possibly Nova Scotia, possibly other parts of the east coast and pretty much nowhere else in Canada. Nonetheless it's pretty much the most common incorrect stereotype of Canadians given to us by americans. ;) While investigating this amongst large groups of both Canadians and Americans I discovered that there are 3 pronunciations of "about" out there. The common southern American pronunciation which is very throaty "abowt" which seems most common in the US, the Canadian east coast "aboot" which is not so common but even sounds funny to the rest of us Canadians and we joke around with that as well, and the pronunciation that the majority of us actually use which is like the "ou" in "ouch" or "couch". :)

But, having said that... and no honest Canadian will deny it... we all pretty much universally ALL say "eh" as a pretty consistent part of Canadian English on a daily basis right across the country with probably no exception. Proudly so too! But while Americans find this humourous (yes with "ou"), we find it equally hilarious listening to Americans attempt to say "eh" and sound Canadian as they invariably mess it up and sound "tell tale American". ;) The trick to the Canadian "eh" is that it almost always comes at the end of the sentence, but more importantly it flows with the sentence without any pause or delay at the end and also without any inflection or accent added to it. In other words, "eh" is almost never said with any form of emphasis on the word. :) When Americans say it though, they approach it differently and say what they were going to say normally, then put a big pause, then say "eh" loudly or with some other emphasis on it, perhaps on purpose to point it out or something but it just doesn't work that way. :)

If an American truly wants to master the Canadian "eh", just spend a week or so talking to a Canadian face to face, or online voice chat every day for at least an hour or two. If you do this, not only will you learn how to say "eh" properly, but you WILL start saying it without realizing you're doing it and your American friends will start cracking jokes at you about it. :) A British friend of mine started saying it after a few weeks of chatting with me online and his girlfriend gets a big laugh out of it now because he says it naturally and correctly as if he was Canadian and he is completely unaware he's doing it.

The power of the eh! ;oP

All I am amazed about them is that they don´t have milk bags like us.
Seriously......BOXES?! Those are for special chocolate milk for camping.

Ohh, and we call them "sachet".

http://www.lepointweb.com/includes/imageproduit.php?leid=46&prodId=22

Dutch grammar whacks an apostrophe in there like that for pluralised words. So maybe those particular Americans are of Dutch heritage? But yeah, it is annoyingly widespread.

Behold.........all boxed milk heretics :P

Human lady milk! Great. -_-

Yeah, our big bags contain these smaller bags, but no terrifying faces.

What you mean scary? :P
You gave me an idea for a "The Shining" milk sachet.

But, ok. You shall have the Yoga practitioners milk sachet then.

*does hocus pocus*

I DON'T WANNA SEE PEOPLE ON MY MILK SACHETES! :S

This would make an awesome Spoonerism: I DON'T WANNA SEE PEOPLE ON MY SILK MACHETES!

Anyway, sadly enough, the phenomenon of not knowing where to add an 's' or an apostrophe is alive and well here in Canada. I see it all the time and it drives me nuts.

(We have a wide selection of CD's and DVD's!)

Ugh.


Eh?

Going back to this....................THEN THIS?!

*I don´t know if you knowing spanish or no spanish at all would change the fact* :P


Ok.......ok...........

I'm used to seeing French abused everywhere, but this is terrible. :(

Get oot of here. :P

You just gave me an idea :P