home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!hela.iti.org!cs.widener.edu!dsinc!ub!galileo.cc.rochester.edu!troi.cc.rochester.edu!mjhf
- From: mjhf@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Michael James Horsfall)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Canadian English
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.035442.25349@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:54:42 GMT
- References: <1jeb99INNe6d@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <C12z51.I9K@CAM.ORG> <1993Jan21.022336.26550@g2syd.genasys.com.au>
- Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
- Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
- Lines: 26
- Nntp-Posting-Host: troi.cc.rochester.edu
-
- In <1993Jan21.022336.26550@g2syd.genasys.com.au> jonog@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Jonathan Gowland) writes:
-
- >In article <C12z51.I9K@CAM.ORG> renault@CAM.ORG (Pierre Renault) writes:
-
- >>Apparently, when an american goes to a choke'n'puke to eat a hamburger,
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- >Chew'n'Spew - Chinese restaurant
- >The Scottish Restaurant - McDonald's
- >Greasy Joe's - independent shop selling hamburgers and similar
- > take-away fare
-
- >- Jonathan Gowland
-
- The Canadian version of a "choke'n'puke" is a "gag'n'puke", at least in my
- experience. We also refer to a small, dirty restaurant as a "Greasy Spoon",
- although originally, in the 1930's, this term was reserved for Railroad
- eating-houses.
-
- Mike Horsfall
- mjhf@troi.cc.rochester.edu
- --
- =====================================================Michael James Horsfall
- Phone: (716)-275-8703 (Lab) Department of Biophysics
- Fax: (716)-275-6007 University of Rochester Medical Centre
- E-mail: mjhf@troi.cc.rochester.edu=========================================
-