Shawn Mendes Teaches You Canadian Slang With Vanity Fair

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Twink of Pop™ Shawn Mendes, Pickering, Canada native, schools us in Canadian slang. From “26” to “beauty,” Shawn will leave you saying “what you' sayin” after this episode of Slang School.

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[weighty_ghost]

"Slang"

First word - an actual town.
Go train - the actual name of the metro line

Some of these are Canadian in general, some are... douche words from southern ontario, i have to assume

[ahkna]

Same with Famous Players. Like...dude, that's just the movie theatre at the Pickering Town Center.

[weighty_ghost]

is it still famous players? that was the name of our theatre here as well but its now a cineplex/silver city

[laminy]

It's a Cineplex now as well.

[okgoawaynow]

So damn unlikable

[xellabelle]

To Canadians/Americans - can you tell the difference between Canadian and American accents?

Because I can't at all in terms of the "standard" accents but I'm not Canadian or American

[ahkna]

If they're an actor, not really because a Canadian accent is quite close to a Midwestern US accent, but if there's someone talking on a true crime show or something, I can usually pick out the Canadian because even though the accent is generally similar, there's a different cadence and style to the way Canadians speak, in general.

[xellabelle]

Interesting! What would you say the main differences are in terms of cadence and style?

[onyxobsidian]

If someone has a "standard" way of talking, like they're from a major city, usually all you can pick up on is the "oo" sound.

About:
American: Ah-Bowt
Canadian: Ah-Boht

The word "out" in Canadian sounds like they're saying "oat" to me. Also, some but not all Canadians pepper their speech with "eh" in a way of a confirmation at the end of a sentence. So instead of, "That was a great meal, right!" "That was a great meal eh!"

[ahkna]

LMAO. My dumb hometown of Ajax being called slang is killing me. I remember in high school we used to call Ajax-Pickering 'Pick-Ax' and that my high school's pet peeve was that despite the name we were NOT in Pickering.

We definitely called Scarborough 'Scarberia' though. Most of the rest are just like random things that exist in Durham Region or are general Canadian slang, like 'mickey' and 'toque'

Pioneer Village. Classic school trips.

(My wife lost her mind when she came to Toronto and found out that literally everything was named after England)

[iznanassi]

is there pickering-ajax beef???? why would it be slang lmao i was LOST when i saw that

[allstar12]

Growing up in Scarborough even I knew about the Ajax-Pickering beef thing but I never was told why LOL

[ahkna]

isn't there always beef between towns beside each other?

Americans look away, Canadian talk now: My high school Reach For the Top team appeared on Smart Ask at one point and they legit even said "Pickering High School in Pickering, ON" and the whole team was just like "IT'S IN AJAX" on air. It even still says it on the Smart Ask wiki!

[melancolour]

some of these are just proper nouns