We’ve experienced winter in Alberta and trust me, it’s cold. It is needed because Alberta can be extremely cold in the winter. I learned today on the CBC that it is an Inuit word for “The snow that melts.” What a Chinook is, is a warm wind that comes over the mountain in the dead of winter and instantly melts the snow and raises the temperature. I had no idea what this meant until I was older.Ī Chinook is quite amazing actually. Being born in Alberta, Canada my parents often talked about Chinooks blowing in from the mountains and how nice it was. Double DoubleĪ chinook explained by the Weather Network They use bathrooms, and restrooms, I have seen water closet used around the world and The British love to say The Loo… But I never see washroom. I don’t think that I have ever heard the term washroom anywhere else except for Canada. I was surprised to see the word Toilet used so much. When I first started to travel the world. Get a copy of Bob and Doug Mackenzie’s Take Off Featuring Great Canadian Rocker Geddy Lee of Rush.The Edge from U2 often wears a tuque, and Jacques Cousteau always wore a tuque. Well, it is simple, a tuque is a knitted hat is used to keep the head warm. When I made statements like “ Its cold tonight, I should have packed my tuque ,” People looked at me like I was from another planet. That’s when I realized that Canadians are strange. Take off and tuques were perfectly normal.Īnd then I started traveling. “Tuque” (it can also be spelled toque) I watched Canadian icons Bob and Doug Mackenzie as a kid wearing their tuques telling each other to “Take Off Eh” and I never thought anything of it. I went my entire childhood and a large portion of my adult life not realizing that this was a word only used in Canada.
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