BURNED or BURNT? Irregular Verbs in American & British English

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English with Ronnie


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Hiya, welcome to EngVid, eh? My name's Ronnie, eh? Today, I'm going to teach you some Canadian
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vocabulary, eh? Why does Ronnie keep on saying "eh"? This is a very Canadian thing to say.
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I am Canadian, in case you didn't know this. I was born in Canada. Canada's a beautiful
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country to live in. Is it? Yeah. The winters are very cold, the summers are really hot.
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There's lots of fun things to do, especially drinking. So I'm going to teach you 10 or
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11 or 12 or 2 million words that are very much Canadian. And they're so Canadian that
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they're from basically where I grew up in Ontario or around Toronto, Canada. The first
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one is "canuck". "Canuck" is actually a word for a Canadian. So "canuck" is a Canadian.
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It's such a famous word that we have a hockey team named after the Canucks. They're called
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the Vancouver Canucks. Hockey is a very, very, very, very, very extremely popular sport in
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Canada. It's not our national sport. Our national sport is lacrosse. But the most popular sport
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is hockey. I would make a bet that 42% of the people, the boys that grew up in Canada
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played hockey at one point in their life. So the first word is "canuck". "Canuck" means
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Canadian. The second word is very much just a Canadian word. It's called a "toque". What
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is a toque, you might ask? A toque is a hat like this. In America, they use the word "beanie".
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Now a toque doesn't have to have a beautiful pom-pom like mine does, but a toque is a winter
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hat. The pronunciation of this word is different than the spelling because it's French. This
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is spelt "toque". The word itself, "que", is a French spelling, so any time that you
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have a Canadian word with a "que" in it, it's taken from the French language and it's spelt
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like a "que" or it's sounded like a "que". The next one we get into are famous drinks
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in Canada. For some reason, Canadians like beer. Everyone likes beer, but we have special
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names for our alcohol. If we get a case of beer, or 24 beers are in a case, we call it
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a "tufor". We also have a holiday called May 24th that we call May Tufor. May 24th or May
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Tufor is Queen Victoria's birthday. Now as you might know, Queen Victoria was a queen
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from England, but history, history, England, Canada, long story short, we call it May Tufor
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and we drink beer. The next one is, or the next three, are not actually to do with beers
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but alcohol like liquor, vodka, tequila, rum, whatever liquor you like to drink. If you
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go to the liquor store in Ontario called the LCBO, let's write that down, it's very important,
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the L-C-B-O, this is in Ontario, it's the only place you can buy liquor, unfortunately.
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You might hear people saying in the store, "Oh, I'm going to grab a Mickey." Mickey Mouse?
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Mickey what? Huh? Huh? What are you talking about Mickey? A Mickey is the smallest amount
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of alcohol you can buy. It's 350 milliliters and it's only, like I said, liquor. It's not
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beer. The next size up is a 40, which makes sense, is 40 ounces. And then we have a 60,
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which is 60 ounces. So maybe when you're in the LCBO, you hear people saying, "I'm going
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to get a 40 of tequila and a 60 of rum, and I'm going to pick up a Mickey of vodka." These
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are talking in Canadian slang about how much alcohol they're going to get. Yay.
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The next one is poutine. I think that sounds like a dirty word. I don't know why, I just
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do. But poutine is Canadian food. It's actually from, again, French Canada, and that's why
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it's poutine. Poutine is very fat and lots of calories for us. Poutine is French fries
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with cheese and gravy. Gravy is basically beef fat with flour and salt. Very healthy.
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So we have some fried potatoes with cheese and gravy, mixed it all up, thrown some seasoning,
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have a beer, and it's called poutine. This is our famous food in Canada.
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The next one is very, very, very popular and famous in Canada. It started, if I have this
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correct, at a donut shop that was Canadian, now it's not Canadian, called Tim Hortons.
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Tim Hortons is another famous Canadian restaurant or coffee shop. Tim Hortons was a hockey player,
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but he died, and he opened up a donut chain before he died. And Tim Hortons is only in
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Canada, but I have seen them in Ireland. Tricky, tricky. Tim Hortons got bought out by an American
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company, so they're no longer Canadian. But we have invented the famous Double-Double.
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So you can walk into a Tim Hortons and say, "Good day. I'd like a Double-Double." And
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then people go, "Okay." And you get your coffee. What is a Double-Double? It's a coffee with
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two cream, two sugars. Double-Double. We might say single-single, I don't know, but we definitely
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say Double-Double. Double-Double is two cream, two sugar, Tim Hortons. If you walked into
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another coffee shop that's not Tim Hortons and you said, "Double-Double," they might
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look at you strange and go, "Would you like a latte, a grande latte, a smaller latte?"
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So Tim Hortons is usually where this is said and where it originated from. So Double-Double
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is a coffee with two cream and two lovely sugars. Yay.
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The next one that is very Canadian is a dart. Now you might know dart as a pub game where
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you throw a dart at a bullseye, but a dart in Canada is actually a cigarette. Or we might
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say also a smoke, which is another slang word for cigarette. So someone might say to you,
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"Hey, got a dart?" And you, "No, I don't have a dart." "Oh, a cigarette, yes." Or they might
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say, "Do you got a smoke?" "A cigarette, okay. Okay, we're getting this." So maybe you go
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to Tim Hortons, you have a coffee, go outside for a dart, then you want to eat some food
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so you get some poutine.
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There's another curious thing about Canada and it's called weed. You might know weed
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as something like a plant that grows in your garden, like a dandelion. But weed is actually
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a slang term for marijuana. Marijuana is not really legal in Canada, but it is decriminalized,
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which means the police will not put you in jail for having marijuana, a lot of it. It's
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up to you, isn't it? So we usually call marijuana weed.
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And the last one, the fun one, as I started off, is "eh." I hear a lot of Australians
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also using "eh," but Americans make fun of us because we say "eh" apparently all the
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time, "eh." "Eh" is a tag question. Americans will say "yeah" or "huh," and we have traditionally
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said "eh." So for example, if I was to see someone on the street, I'd say, "It's cold
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here, eh? Where you going, eh? What's up, eh?" In America, you'd say, "It's cold, huh?"
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or "It's cold, yeah?" So "eh" is a very, very Canadian tag question that a lot of people
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make fun of us for. Don't do that.
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So come to Canada. Learn about all these things. Eat some food. Drink some booze. Drink some
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coffee. Be a Canuck. There's one more that you need to do. If you go to the very, very
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east coast of Canada, there are people called Newfies. Let me write that for you. A Newfie
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or Newfies are people from Newfoundland or Newfoundland, as it looks like on the map.
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People from Newfoundland are called Newfies. They are one of the most amazingly warm, funny,
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generous, fun, crazy people you'll ever meet in your life. They are located in Newfoundland
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in Canada. So please come to our great country. Have a dart, have a coffee, have a double-double,
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and enjoy the nature. Bye.
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