OT: Canadian French again

Are you doing it with the glow in the dark threads? I have her Neptune design which I really should dig out and kit up. I had once heard rumors of a Cinderella design, but don't see one on the website (DD is a big Cinder fan - she even gave me the 1960s TV version with Lesley Ann Down and Stuart Damon for my birthday.)

Any way -enough rambling - I love her designs.

Donna in Virginia

Tegan wrote:

Yes, so those screams you hear later on this weekend could very well be me, fussing with the filament. And of course, that will happen only if I manage to pull my nose out of the current series of books!

Tegan

I worked with somebody from Newfoundland and she started her cursing with "holymarymotherofjesus...." It was quite amazing how many words she could combine into one word. Margaret

"Margaret Henderson" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

I sometimes play bridge with a Newfoundland woman who moved here a year ago to live with her daughter, who spent her whole life in Newfoundland in one of the out ports.

Knowing I do embroidery and knit, she told me she was knitting a 'beer' and having let her continue on hoping 'beer' would become clear to me, when it didn't, I encouraged her to bring it in so I could see it.

She was knitting a teddy bear! I eventually told her and she laughs about it and when referring to the beer, now stops and carefully says bear. She said to me once, 'You always know it's me soon as you answer the 'phone' well - larjasusbye, it sure ain't difficult lol

Newfies are wonderful people, you'd walk a million miles to find any people so friendly, and I know Gillian would want me to add her sentiments to that.

Not Canadian, but what I thought was a wonderful, descriptive combined word that was used some years back by a young man who worked for me. When someone we worked with quit, he very seriously asked me if he quit for a better job or he quit just because of "generalfedupedness."

I thought that was a great way to describe someone who just had it and needed an immediate change.

Lucille

It's actually a number of words, sort of said together quickly.

Esti colis tabernac

It's actually a quebec french swear word along the lines of religious tones. You emphasize bits and pieces to really make it quebecoisese. ie: Esteeeeeeeeeecollissssssssssss tabarnac.

Lynne (in Ottawa, but Ex-montrealler).

Tegan wrote:

In Canada a toque is basically a reference to any winter hat. Can be one with or without a pom pom on top, a ski hat, as long as it's knitted.

Lynne (in Ottawa)