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#1 2006-11-21 14:31:21

madraven
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Registered: 2006-11-21
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Old Fort

There are a number of new words being coined by English Canadians as a direct result of official bilingualism which makes packaging (and all else) officially bilingual. Thus we get amusing malapropisms and other rhyming inventions when English and French are placed side by each:

  • Demi Lunes (yum, remember those halfmoon pastries?)
  • Pamplemouse juice (that would be grapefruit juice anywhere else)
  • Old Fort cheese (my favourite. Fort is simply French for “old” (okay, for “hard” – that’s the word the French used for very agéd cheese). Every English Canadian has a favourite old fort where they imagine this cheese comes from. I always though it was Fort Henry in Kingston, Ontario, but there may be other variants across the country.

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