• @[email protected]
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    2710 months ago

    Yeah, no. In Canada it’s maybe referred to as McDee’s, Micky Dee’s, McDonald’s, but nothing similar to Macca’s

    • @[email protected]
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      1610 months ago

      As an Australian living in Canada, yes it’s Macca’s in Australia, but a Canadian friend also told me they have McDicks.

      • @[email protected]
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        710 months ago

        Seconded. I’ll still habitually call it Maccas and my Canadian friends slowly adopt the term. I actually had a moment of doubt that it was an Australian thing for a while because of that.

        Who knows maybe in 20 years it’ll be ubiquitous.

      • swab148
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        610 months ago

        I think he was describing something else

      • @[email protected]
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        1210 months ago

        In Canadian English “yeah, no”, “yeah, no, yeah”, “no, yeah”, and “yeah, no, for sure” are just sayings (here’s a random reference I found). I just meant “yeah, like you suggest, no, other countries might not use the term”

            • Quokka
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              910 months ago

              Nah that’s kiwis.

              They say stuff like “where’s the car” whereas we say it more like “where’s the car”.

            • Instigate
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              210 months ago

              Nah, we don’t use hard r’s at the end of our words like in American English. For instance, our way of pronouncing ‘car’ is more like ‘cah’ or just ‘ca’. The way you’ve written it is basically Pirate English.

              • Bibliotectress
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                110 months ago

                My desperate hope to someday meet Australian pirates has been horribly crushed.