The Canadian Lexicon

I have dedicated a few posts to odd things in Canada.  You all remember milk in a bag, and gravy fries right?  Tonight I thought I would dedicate a post to the odd way that Canadians talk. 

I am sure you are all familiar with the most obvious and most well known words that Canadians say, and things they say that brings out that special accent.

The Word in English                                                  The Word as Canadians say it

1) About                                                                      1)  A boat.  Or A boot
2) Out                                                                          2)  sounds more like "oat" to me
3) Progress                                                                3)  Canadians pronounce this with a long o
                                                                                        sound "pro-gress"
4) Garage                                                                   4)  You will often hear this the way the British say
                                                                                         it, sounds more like carriage
5) Bathroom                                                              5) Not something they say in a strange way, they
                                                                                          just use a completely different word.  In Canada
                                                                                          the "bathroom" is actually the "washroom"
6) Eh???                                                         
Eh has to be one of the most annoying things to my life.  Especially because of the fact that every other sentence my husband(and everybody else) says ends in Eh?  Eh is a word that has a million different meanings based on what is being discussed.  It could mean "excuse me?" "can you repeat that?" "huh?" "right?" Pretty much if anybody is asking for an opinion they will say eh.  Example "It's nice out, eh?"  They will stick eh onto the end of almost anything to get someones opinion, and as confirmation that the other person is listening. It drives me crazy all the time.  I don't know how to respond to it.  I have to just shake my head when I hear my 2 year old niece say "eh", and pray that my own children don't catch the "eh" bug from their father.  At least in the case of my kids, they will grow up in the US and will hopefully get teased mercilessly if they ever said "eh" at school.