Yeah, I was born and raised on the west coast of Canada but my mother is from the maritimes (Nova Scotia) and I ended up picking up a few of her pronunciations. Namely that "won" and "one" do not rhyme. Instead the past tense of win rhymes with 'con'.

From BC but had a teacher in highschool from Saskatchewan who said "mAlk" and pronounced Italian like "eye-talian."

Augh, that IS the worst!

Nah, not really. (As expected, it was always easy to know when substitute teachers got to my name "Ashley?" "Here!" "Jason?" "Here!" "Uh...I may not say all your.." "Here!")

Fair plan! I'm the youngest of three and while my two elder siblings have 'normal' classic biblical names, I (despite being not at all Greek) have a Greek name that people have trouble pronouncing by reading it, but which is otherwise easy to say. I've always liked it. I often get "what a beautiful name"…

:D Yes, I think my entire friend-circle was built around how good they were at playing pretend. Kids who had no interest in narratives or just wanted to play catch were out. (Mind, this method of friend selection also meant some of them weren't actually that great at being proper friends, but that only became…

Hah, when kids would play "house" at school everyone would fight over who got to play the teen girl or the baby. Then I'd show up with pig tails put in specifically to emulate ears insisting on being the guard dog. "musicdiver, you can't always be a dog! Why don't you be the mom or something?" What? But that's…

My two older siblings like cats and dogs but aren't big 'animal people.' We grew up with a dog, two cats, birds, fish and a few generations of guinea pigs. I never had any really bad experiences with animals (just minor things: there was a scary dog across the street you'd have to pop your umbrella at to get up to…

I recently spent a few weeks traveling about The Netherlands and Belgium but never did make it to Brussels. Hopefully next time! I missed it mostly because of time restraints (ended up largely in other towns in the Flemish region, in Gent and Leuven,) but my disinclination to go was probably also influenced by my…

It's pretty rare for me too (unless I'm in a club or something and then it's too loud for cat calling and so less shouting and more try-for-a-crotch-grab walk-bys.) On the street, I think pretty well the only time it happens is with old men (like 65+), often those sporting white beards. WAT. (for reference, am 26 but…

Another one who did attend school with 'Mean Girls'. I even had a couple of the stunts from the movie pulled on me: one friend trying to bait you into saying bad things about the other while said other is secretly on the other line ("but she can be annoying sometimes right?" "I don't know, she' s OK" "I know but I…

I was the same way with Firefly. Love it now, but wasn't initially sold. Each episode I'd find a few things that I felt were weak with regards to plot or seemed like awkward world building. I was almost in denial about how much I liked it until a few episodes in. Before I knew it I almost didn't care what the…

Farscape for me too. 1999. It aired in Canada on YTV, a youth/children's TV network. I'd put on the channel to 'see what was on' and the pilot episode had me hooked. I was 13 at the time and the adventure and romance and more adult bend to things were captivating. (YTV ended up cancelling the show - they had…

I'm 26, from a small town on the coast (BC), and we had milk in bags in my house until some point in the late 90's. I never really see it in grocery stores these days though (Vancouver now).

I don't generally hold hands with my female friends but we definitely link arms when we walk. (especially when it's cold out)

Ayn Rand seems to have a creepy brainwashing power over some 17-19 year olds. I had two very reasonable socially separate friends go through this post-Atlas Shrugged & Fountainhead haze only to come out of it six months to a year later wondering what happened.

Kind of off topic but just wondering - are you from Vancouver originally? (I ask only because although I'm currently a Vancouver resident I hail from small town coastal BC (escaped almost ten years ago) and that was the last place I'd heard anyone use the word cazsh! Now I'm wondering how widespread that word is...

Don't forget New Brunswick! The only officially bilingual province to my recollection (although definitely in the southern parts there are probably plenty of people who speak only English. Plus their French is of a unique variety.)

Hah. I guess once you cross the Rockies they really just throw in the towel on the whole French thing? (I mean it was still mandatory to learn French grades 6-8, though I'll never understand why they leave it so late.) Or maybe that was just my school. We did "learn" the French version but I don't know that we ever…

I can see that. I know when I was in South America on an archaeology project, the four Canadians were quick to point out that they were not Americans when the locals asked if our group of 25 were all from the states. The fair assumption is always that you're American because of course the American populace so far…