I guess I've been here long enough to assimilate. I understood it completely.

I don't know where Toontown is though.

I do catch myself saying y'all quite a bit. I can tell the people from TN because they say you'uns <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I just hate being mistaken for a Yankee!

JinGA (no Ganja here)

Maybe it isn't a well-known nickname but I know you'll recognise it ... Running back to...
Saskatoon!


ROFL This is just TOOOO much! You know Dalton is practically TN... I grew up in Cleveland, for example. When I was a kid, we said "you'uns"... switching to "y'all" was the city-fied thing to do!

Oooh and ah sometimes git cawled uh Yank up heah too! Ah let'im know ah ain't no Yank, ah may be merrcun but that don't make me no Yank.

Happy Canada Day eh!

Ps - I loved watching North of 60, was tempted to quit my career and go live up north like the non-Native woman who had the chief's baby. And yep, we've taken the kids to see the big nickel! H (and myself, in the summers) actually work at 6800 feet underground! The air's been pretty good, I haven't seen much smog but where I spend the school years is in a valley that often has inversions so it seems nice here by comparison.

Brantford to North Bay in 3 days, wow!

Doh - Saskatoon - sorry, never lived out there so I'm not familiar with that lingo. Furthest west I've been in Canada is Brantford, ON... just west of The Big Smoke!

Please forgive my Canadian bretheren...you see, in Canada, *any* American is a yank or yankee ditto with Brits... they have no education concerning the Mason-Dixon line. I remember when I moved here, crossing the Mason-Dixon line...

Around here, I've met very few native Georgians, the Atlanta area is really a melting pot of people from all over the US and the world... but I learned pretty quickly that being called a Yankee is NOT a term of endearment in these here parts! :funny:

Then shortly after I arrived here, some good ole boy tried to teach me about the War of Northern Aggression <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Some folks just gotta get over it! Talk about a skewed view.

I had some serious culture shock when I moved here. There are many similarities between the US and Canada but sometimes it's like I'm on another planet.

However, I was a Jeff Foxworthy fan long before I ever moved onto US soil - there are "rednecks" everywhere!!

Canadian rednecks just have a different accent!

JinGA