You and I are on on the same soggy page. I grew up in Ste Catharines and used that word regularly every spring.
The Super Dooper Canadian Thread (now with 47% more Canadian Bacon)
So why isn't there an NHL team in Wisconsin? Or even discussion of one?
Again, "pro" teams.
Juniors are essentially paid-under-the-table pro teams, but not officially because of child labor laws.
And DA - there was talk about 25 years ago about bringing the NHL to Milwaukee, but the people who were most likely to do so decided against joining the expansion parade, and by that time the NHL had decided to move south with Tampa, Miami and Anaheim.
15 years ago,the idiot owner of the Wild former owner of the Predators essentially put the nail in the coffin that, as it stands right now, the NHL wouldn't work in Milwaukee.
Now, if the new Bucks arena comes to fruition like it has been discussed, there's a possibility of giving it an ice-making plant and making it NHL-ready, which could give some teams options if they decided to move - or a fourth option for the NHL as an expansion locale.
Right now, though, Wisconsin is pretty much Packers 24/7, with the occasional "oh, is it opening day for the Brewers?" poking in.
And DA - there was talk about 25 years ago about bringing the NHL to Milwaukee, but the people who were most likely to do so decided against joining the expansion parade, and by that time the NHL had decided to move south with Tampa, Miami and Anaheim.
15 years ago,
Now, if the new Bucks arena comes to fruition like it has been discussed, there's a possibility of giving it an ice-making plant and making it NHL-ready, which could give some teams options if they decided to move - or a fourth option for the NHL as an expansion locale.
Right now, though, Wisconsin is pretty much Packers 24/7, with the occasional "oh, is it opening day for the Brewers?" poking in.
Definitely never heard it in Brampton.[DOUBLEPOST=1425732099,1425731997][/DOUBLEPOST]
And pronounced "the." Fell out because of the introduction of printing presses, and the desire to save production time/costs by eliminating characters that didn't exist in most languages being printed.
I've hear it, for sure. Not an everyday thing though so it's not exactly pervasive.
I have heard some rumblings about the next expansion going there, but all from a fan's perspective of "man, why don't they go there? It'd work"
Definitely nothing on par with the Vegas, Quebec City, Seattle and even Hamilton/second Toronto team rumours.
I think that might be called a booter in Manitoba. Even then I don't hear the term being used much.
I'm still hung up on the regional colloquialisms. The fact Soaker made it to K/W and St Catherines but skipped Brampton, while being so common in South Lake Simcoe befuddles me.
I should double check with my Toronto area friends to make sure they are familiar with it and I haven't seemed crazy to them for 8+ years.
What other Canada-specifi colloquialisms do we have? The first time I heard that hoodies are called "Bunny hugs" in Saskatchewan I was astounded. That, and the lack of Daylight Savings Time are the two most interesting things about Saskatchewan.[DOUBLEPOST=1425761908,1425761830][/DOUBLEPOST]
I should double check with my Toronto area friends to make sure they are familiar with it and I haven't seemed crazy to them for 8+ years.
What other Canada-specifi colloquialisms do we have? The first time I heard that hoodies are called "Bunny hugs" in Saskatchewan I was astounded. That, and the lack of Daylight Savings Time are the two most interesting things about Saskatchewan.[DOUBLEPOST=1425761908,1425761830][/DOUBLEPOST]
I know they have some weird version of bowling in the Maritimes, but 16-pin?
I didn't think a second team in the GTA, or even Hamilton (Which some people still call GTA but seriously, it's like 2 ours away and there isn't much daily commuter traffic for work, it has its own business sector- its not GTA) would work, because MLSE and the Sabres wouldn't allow their demgraphics to be undercut like that. BUT, that changed in the last few years when Bell and Rogers became co-owners of MLSE. These are two major competitors and rumour has it they don't agree on a lot at MLSE, especially since Rogers' Sportsnet bought the exclusive NHL broadcast rights- fucking over Bell's TSN in the process. I can kinda see one buying the other out with some provision allowing ownership of a second franchise now. It'd be interesting.
For the record, I'm not sure a GTA team would work, but a Hamilton team would absolutely work. Hamiltonians already hate Torontontians.
I'm fine with not talking about Toronto and the NHL at all for the next 4-5 years.
Until you said that, I never considered anything other than the other thing.
--Patrick
Only I and a few others on this board live in Newfoundland, so it mostly doesn't apply. Even here it's pretty rare.
I took a course on Canadian English with one of its preeminent researchers last year - I could pull out my notes and give you a decent list if you're really interested.
That is exactly the kind of thing that should be posted in this thread.
It's a northern ontario thing too.
Why is this on my Molson Canadian??
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Because it's molson-coors now, so they put their gimmicky doodads for people who somehow can't figure out how to pour beer properly on all their molson products too.
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who uses a glass? How un-Canadian!
GasBandit
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Why do you never embed the picture after you upload it?
I don't understand. What is on it?
Since it's almost definitely going to be a few days before I have the time to dig through my notes, I'll link this for now: Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
It's dated now, and there's work being done on an updated second edition, but there's still some interesting stuff there if anyone feels like digging through.
It's dated now, and there's work being done on an updated second edition, but there's still some interesting stuff there if anyone feels like digging through.
