Alternatively, it can mean there was some skill involved too...
"Good job I had my snow tires on. Roads were slippy this morning."
Interesting that you used the term "slippy", that's a strong PEI idiom. I've lived on the mainland long enough now that I've been assimilated to the point of saying "slippery" all the time instead.
Typical PEI usage - "She's some slippy out today after that ice storm last night"
You guys use "some" to mean "very" as well? Wow... things I associate with just us really do have a broader range.
I love this thread.
I've not heard slippy here that I recall, but it doesn't strike me as weird... I think the most common way to say that here would probably be "like the glass".
"She's like the glass out there the day, b'y."
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Yeah, I've heard "slippy", "slippery", "greasy", "like a sheet of glass". "Greasy" is more specifically when it's "slushy" and the latter one when there's a nice glaze.
My pet peeve is inappropriate use of "seen" (when "saw" is the word to be used). We do that a lot, but I suspect it's wide-spread.
"I seen the weirdest thing Sa'urday."
Common and cringe worthy in Ontario as well. By the way, "slippy" here would peg you as a Maritimer. Using "some" to mean "very" is a bit of an affectation here - you'd be playing a bit with the language and trying to sound like someone from down East if you used it. I do it upon occasion.
Using "some" to mean "very" is a bit of an affectation here - you'd be playing a bit with the language and trying to sound like someone from down East if you used it. I do it upon occasion.
Your hear anglophones say that in the Ottawa Valley as well.
Your hear anglophones say that in the Ottawa Valley as well.
Hate to be a semantic arse, but I think you mean Upper Ottawa Valley
There are definitely similarities between the distinctive Lanark/Renfrew dialect of Eastern Ontario and many of the Atlantic Canadian accents... I wonder if that stems from common Irish roots.
Hate to be a semantic arse, but I think you mean Upper Ottawa Valley
There are definitely similarities between the distinctive Lanark/Renfrew dialect of Eastern Ontario and many of the Atlantic Canadian accents... I wonder if that stems from common Irish roots.
Hate to be a semantic arse, but I think you mean Upper Ottawa Valley
There are definitely similarities between the distinctive Lanark/Renfrew dialect of Eastern Ontario and many of the Atlantic Canadian accents... I wonder if that stems from common Irish roots.
Its the combination of Irish influence and (relative) geographic isolation.
So "dudebro" has made it here courtesy of Ottawan.
Do people actually combine them like that? I'm too old to appreciate these things, but I thought that "bro" had been overtaken by "brah". Although I have no idea why.
One person starts saying something stupid in an exaggerated way as a joke, and people out-do each other until the norm becomes heavily exaggerated as well.
Definitely explains a few of the local accents.
"Ga'ha'git'twark'be" ??? Seriously.
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Do people actually combine them like that? I'm too old to appreciate these things, but I thought that "bro" had been overtaken by "brah". Although I have no idea why.
They do. I've evolved from "homie", under the influence of shit like "dudebro", to "homebrew".
So call all your close friends "homebrew" so I can be the source of the latest trend. It'll be extra hilarious at your social class, KW.
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So it's definitely not just a local/regional thing. Cool. 
Oh, I love it so much!
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