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1. Many of those terms are not exclusive to Saskatchewan – I’ve never lived there and know many of them. Now you want provincial terms, how about “stormstayed” from PEI (meaning you are stuck in the building, be it house or work, due to a snowstorm).

2. A correction required
   Washboard: Every inch of every unpaved Saskatchewan road. (and most of the paved ones)

3. A second correction: grain that is too moist to be tough is damp. Scale is dry – tough – damp.

4. The Old Country: The name transplanted Suckskatchewanerians living in Alberta give to their birth province. I’m going to the ‘old country’ to watch the game.
   Still, Shocked and Confused.

5. For over two years, every morning I flick on the TV to see if Israel has cleaned up the mess in the ME over-night. I am waiting, but probably not much longer.

6. Sorry, wrong thread.

7. Coulee- a ravine or gully or jokingly a ‘quickie in a snowbank’
   During past tough economic times Saskatchewan used to be called ‘Alberta’s farm team’.

8. I don’t see Regina’s nick-name, ‘The Vaj’, on the list. It’s kind of cute here in Calgary when a nice young lady casually drops that she’s ‘going back to the Vaj for the weekend’.

9. The city that rhymes with fun…

10. Where is the U-Ball? When you do a U-turn because you missed your turn or forgot something.

11. ‘Fall/fowl supper: A community supper held in the fall usually as a fundraiser with donated fowl and all the fixings.’
    My family LOVED fowl suppers, held after harvesting was done. Like Thanksgiving dinners, at small town church halls. Those were good times!

12. We’re pretty metric here in Ontario, but I have never in my entire life heard a non government entity use hectares as a unit for area. Everyone still uses acres.

13. “Bannock: Unleavened bread made using flour, water and sometimes, lard.”
    What kind of heathens live there that make bannock WITHOUT lard! Unheard of!

14. Supper: The evening meal. Dinner refers to lunch or the meal served at noon hour.
    Same lingo as here…and is the snack before bed called “lunch”?

15. Yeah,metric is mostly used by governments and the News media.
    I’ve never met a farmer who doesn’t use “acres”, nor have I ever met anyone on a construction site who uses metric,it’s all in “feet” and “inches”, as in “we’ll put in an eight foot wall there”.
    And studs are still “two by fours”.
    A lot of that slang was used in Manitoba,too.

16. I remember well when Canada went from Imperial to metric.
    That Imperial gallon of paint became 3.78 liters.
    Which just so happens to be a US gallon.
    In reality, Canada went from Imperial to US, DENOMINATED in metric.

17. You guys have always been envious of us from MB. That list sure brings back memories. Heh. Shoulda stayed on the farm.