I have a lot of friends who are Canadian, particularly a bunch from the TO/Don Mills/Barrie/New Market areas. I would say there have been three times ever when one of us has used a word that the other had no idea what they were talking about--and it was almost always slang. Yes, we have different words for some things, but in the context of a sentence it's not rocket science to figure the meaning out. If a store clerk says "I can take your purcahse at that till over there, and we validate parkade tickets if you have one" I know what she's saying.
The hardest things for me when I'm in Canada are the metric conversions and remembering the "correct" pronounciation of the last letter of the alphabet.
Anne
Hey, Anne So you're up here in the Canadian board, too! Just how do you pronounce the 'Z'?
Isn't life crazy? We're talking about a possible move to Canada, and you were giving me house-building tips for Florida!