How to speak Canadian eh!

so i just offered my house guest a biscuit... to which she turned down so i made my cup of tea and plonked down with enjoy my cuppa and biscuits and i got' wheres my cookies'.....

see as i learn every day,just becuase two people speak english doesn't mean they can understand each other!! so heres the list we have learnt in our year in Canada!!!!

Irish English vs Canadian English :) :)

Biscuits = Cookies

Buns = Cupcakes

Chips= Fries

Crisps - Chips

Minerals = cans of pop

Ice Pops - Popicles

sweets = candy

Jumpers = sweaters

t-shirts (actually any type of top thats not a sweater) = shirt!!

Garage = gas station

Petrol = gas

forthnight- doesn't exist in canada!!!

car boot = trunk ( i had someone missing a bag for two days as they kept asking me where it was and i kept saying in the boot :) and they were too afriad to ask me where that was!!)

Press = Cupboard

sausepans = pots

Garden = backyard (even if there is grass in it !!)

cooker = oven/stove

timber = wood (timber doesn't exist here either even though it has more than anywhere else in world)

jeeps = trucks

cottages (are not run down thatched houses) = fancy pansy summer house normally more plush than the one they live in!!

Bathroom = washroom

Sat Navs (this will get you some serious raised eyebrows!) = GPS

Mobile phone = Cell phone

Cigarettes = butts.... 'smoking butts'

Then there is the pronounciation

Tuesday = Tooz-dee

about = aboot

Toronto = Tronno

Ottawa - Oddawa

General new words!!!

loonie - 1 dollar coin

twoonie - 2 dollar coin

and finally don't even try figure out the dates and time telling :) :) just do it all backwards and you will probably get it right!!!!!

and the biggest rule.......... if in doubt just throw in 'eh' a couple of times!!