So what you're saying is Canadians are caught in between American and British English ?
Kind of like you guys are caught in between French and English ?
talk about bipolar cultural diversity
PS: Vous êtes du Quebec non ? Donc vous êtes francophones ? J'aimes bien le Canada, je trouves la dualité linguistique intéressante.
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Originally Posted by ekster
I constantly bounce around with color/colour, neighbor/neighbour, armor/armour, etc. but most of the time, I do add the 'U', and it's usually more popular in Canada to add U and use S instead of Z from my experience.
As for measurements, it's a mess in Canada. While most of the time both the metric units and imperial units are listed, for usage, it's mostly (again, in my experience):
Speed and distance are in kilometers/meters, drinks and liquid in general are in liters, and food is in grams/kilograms, height is feet and inches, a house is square feet, electronics are measured in inches...
Outside temperature is in Celsius, but cooking is mostly in Fahrenheit.
It's not easy being Canadian. |