Travel English Canada

Travel English Canada Preparing for a trip to Canada? Heres the travel English youll need to prepare yourself.Canada is geographically adjacent to America and is also a bilingual country (with French as its second language) and as result its English is a mixture of these various influences.Canada has a preference for the British spelling of ise and isation but its pronunciation is closer to American English.If you are going on a trip to Canada here is a vocabulary guide to help you out:Food and DrinkIf you are looking for a whiskey in Canada, you might want to call it rye.Poutine is a dish made with homemade fries topped with melted cheese and gravy.Pickerel is a type of fish.If you are looking for a napkin with your meal, you might have to call it a serviette.To order a soft drink, ask for pop.A two-four refers to a 24 pack of beer.Small size bottles (375ml) of beer are called mickies. If you want a complete pizza, it’s said to be all-dressed. When you want to pay for a meal in a restaurant, ask for th e bill.If you want the bathroom, ask for the washroom.If you go to the fair you will hear cotton candy called candy floss.A donut might be called a jambuster or a Bismarck or a Burlington bun depending on which part of the country you visit.A double double is a coffee with two creams and two sugars.A regular is a coffee with one sugar and one milk.Clothes If you hear the word tuque, this actually means a woolen hat.Housecoat refers to a robe.Knapsack is a backpack.A bunnyhug is a sweater with a hood.Runners refer to sports shoes.Random Don’t be surprised if you hear every sentence end with the expression eh? It doesn’t have any particular meaning.Chesterfield refers to a couch.A Loonie is a one-dollar coin which carries the image of a loon (a bird).A Toonie is a two-dollar coin.A Canadian will refer to university while an American will call it college.A post office is called a po.A special price for travel is called a seat sale.A chinook is a warm dry wind experienced along the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains.A garburator is a garbage disposal unit underneath the kitchen sink.A joe job is a low class, low paying job.As we learn vocabulary for travel to Canada, let’s listen to one of the country’s well-known musical exports, Avril Lavigne, sing one of  her biggest hits, Complicated (which English is not, of course).Did you find this article interesting? Then feel free to share it on Facebook and Twitter.