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The only time I've ever heard anyone say "chippy" he was talking about girls and he was a Brit. I've heard Scots say "aboot", but never Canajuns. "Beaver tail!" No comment.

   

If you've never hear the word chippy, you must have never played or watched hockey.

That game sure was chippy.

   

Perhaps its that you live so close to the border that you have picked up on our Canadianisms....now get in your decalled (NOT DE CAL ) truck and take off eh!

   

No, nor any other of the so called "sports". I am a writer and apply any time not devoted to staying alive to my craft.

   

Boy them yanks sure like to claim everything for themselves don't they. Now eh is an american saying. Get your head out of you butt eh. They try to claim basketball and now hockey that it was started in yanky land. Whats next....football....oh, sorry....soccer for the yanks.. oh maybe they'll claim Molson Canadian beer was started in Ohio. By the way "colour" is spelled this way, it's a turnip not rudabega or how ever they spell that. And I don't get how they can't watch Hockey at night. I wish they would quit pissing around with the playoffs and stop playing games on the weekends during the day. Also,when watching a hockey game if someone asks where the glowing blue light is around the puck, you'll know where their from.....

   

I've never heard the word "chippy" used to describe girls, but "chippy" is a slang word for a chip shop, where we buy fish and chips from.

   

omg, that was great! i'll have something to do when i get back to denver.

   

and i have something to look forward too!!!!

   

haha i like the word chippy, chippy chippy

   

I like the words 'bunnyhug' and 'Vico' myself, really confuses people not from the flatlands when you mention them in a sentence sometimes.

   

If you come east you'll find they don't know what an off-sale is either, Prairie Boy. They call them "vendors" here and when you get to Ontario they just don't have them.

   

Really? That's weird since it's so common here, it's even on the signs.

   

In Ontario they have these these big buildings that say "Beer Store" on the front. They are no where near as common as off-sales and the beer they consider refriderated is roughly room temperature.

In Manitoba the beer at the vendors costs the same as beer at liquor board though...all the time.

   

In BC we have liquor stores (run by the government) and aare open really unfair hours. If you want alchohol after like 9pm, you need to meander over to a "Cold Beer And Wine" store. You pay a bit more, but the drink is ice cold when you buy it. And its quicker, in town here we have 2 DRIVE THROUGH cold beer and wine places!

   

Yeah we have a few drive through places...that's something you don't find in Saskatchewan.

Something that I've only seen in Alberta and Saskatchewan is off-sales that aren't at all separate from the bar. You just walk in, go right up to the bar and order your beer, then you leave with it. I've always thought that was a wonderful innovation or, more likely, non-innovation.

   

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