Canada vs. America

[DramaQueen]

so do you spell colour like us then?

yep.
colour, favourite, all that jazz.

 

[chisnpeke]

i've never seen a bag of milk look like that before!!! haha



also, in the U.S when you ask for iced tea at a restaurant you get exactly that....brewed tea with ice in it! in canada we just have like...nestea type of stuff. i always get so frustrated when i ask for ice tea and forget to say with sugar in it because i'm not used to it.

I searched on ask.com images and that came up.

We used to have to put sugar in our iced tea if we wanted it sweet. Now most places are offering sweet tea or unsweetened.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

yep.
colour, favourite, all that jazz.

wootwoot xD

it's so weird reading twilight and other american books with the spelling all crazy xP

what is the 1st harry potter called there? here it's hp and the philosopher's stone... i heard it got changed to hp and the sorcer's stone in the US

 

[wdwllamadancer]

wootwoot xD

it's so weird reading twilight and other american books with the spelling all crazy xP

what is the 1st harry potter called there? here it's hp and the philosopher's stone... i heard it got changed to hp and the sorcer's stone in the US

yes thats true and our cover artwork is different as well.

 

[DramaQueen]

wootwoot xD

it's so weird reading twilight and other american books with the spelling all crazy xP

what is the 1st harry potter called there? here it's hp and the philosopher's stone... i heard it got changed to hp and the sorcer's stone in the US

it was the philosophers stone here.
i dont get why it was different in the u.s?

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

yes thats true and our cover artwork is different as well.

oh weird.
cd cover artwork is different here too.
like the kings of leon's and taylor swift's latest CDs are different here..

 

[Cinderelli16]

I always liked them better.
They look like this and you usually buy three bags at a time and you need the plastic milk holder thing.

Woah! Cool! lol
I'm amused.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

it was the philosophers stone here.
i dont get why it was different in the u.s?

i'm not trying to sound mean here but i read somewhere it was because they made it erm.. simpler for them.

 

[wdwllamadancer]

it was the philosophers stone here.
i dont get why it was different in the u.s?

i don't get it either.
sometimes I go out of my way to do and spell things the UK way just to prove a point.

 

[marypops!]

Money is different. In the UK, we have:
Coins:
1p
2p
5p
10p
20p
50p
£1
£2

Bills:
£5
£10
£20
£50
£100

Not sure after that.

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

Money is different. In the UK, we have:
Coins:
1p
2p
5p
10p
20p
50p
£1
£2

Bills:
£5
£10
£20
£50
£100

Not sure after that.

i've never seen a £100 note.. what colour is it?
£5 is green
£10 is orange
£20 is purple
don't know after that haha..
and don't we say notes not bills?

 

[DramaQueen]

Money is different. In the UK, we have:
Coins:
1p
2p
5p
10p
20p
50p
£1
£2

Bills:
£5
£10
£20
£50
£100

Not sure after that.

We're SOOOOORT of similar

Coins;
Penny (1c)
Nickle (5c)
Dime (10c)
Quarter (25c)
Loonie ($1)
Toonie ($2)

Bills
$5
$10
$20
$50
$100

we also don't have dollar bills, but we don't have 2c coins.

 

[marypops!]

Yeah we do, I just couldn't think of the word at the time

What else... Football is soccer? Everybody knows that though...

 

[Sparx]

why would you put milk in a bag?

this is what my milk comes in.

 

[Sparx]

i'm not trying to sound mean here but i read somewhere it was because they made it erm.. simpler for them.

i don't know if it was necessarily simpler, but in america the word philosopher and the word sorcerer aren't synonyms.

the american versions of the books are translated into american english.

canada uses a lot of british slang, so not so much of the book had to be changed.

 

[CrazyChik]

yeah hershey's is NOTHING like Cadbury's.
my fave has to be pissed though.
here 'i'm pissed' means 'i'm drunk' not 'i'm angry'

I say pissed to mean angry sometimes. Maybe I'm just too americanised xD


Question time:- If I say cwtch (pronounce cutch or cooch whichever you prefer) would any of you know what I mean?

 

[marypops!]

We have whole milk, skimmed milk and semi-skimmed milk. I forget what it is in America though...

 

[Disney Princess Elli]

i don't know if it was necessarily simpler, but in america the word philosopher and the word sorcerer aren't synonyms.

the american versions of the books are translated into american english.

canada uses a lot of british slang, so not so much of the book had to be changed.

oh well that's what i read.
i don't think books get translated here..
twilight didn't at least.

 

[DramaQueen]

why would you put milk in a bag?

this is what my milk comes in.

to be honest, i havent the slightest idea.
i know buying bags is cheaper than buying cartons here.
you get about 4 litres per 3 bags and it's about $5, but for the 2 litre cartons it's $3-ish.
i haven't a clue why they put it in bags though

 

[wdwllamadancer]

I say pissed to mean angry sometimes. Maybe I'm just too americanised xD


Question time:- If I say cwtch (pronounce cutch or cooch whichever you prefer) would any of you know what I mean?

ooh i have heard that before, but I am not exactly sure what it means