Avid travelers Dave Bouskill e Debra Corbeil bill themselves as Canada’s adventure couple. They recently took time out from their adventures to blog about únicas palavras e frases canadenses.

Você já ouviu falar do Dê um duplo duplo? Here’s their explanation:

“I am going to Timmies to grab a box of timbits and a large Double Double.”

That is what you say when leave the house to order an assortment of tasty doughnut centres and an oversized cup of coffee with 2 creams and 2 sugars at Tim Horton Doughnuts. Gostoso.

E quanto ao 2-4?

Esta é a nossa frase que usamos quando vamos comprar cerveja: “I am going to get a 2-4 of Canadian at the Beer Store.”

Sim, we buy our beer at the Beer store in Canada and a box of 24 beers is simply shortened to the words “two four.”

Leia sua lista de 10 únicas palavras canadenses e fases aqui. Para Canadiana ainda mais, pick up a copy of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.

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