Newfoundland is called ‘Newland,’ D-Day is known as ‘J-Day’ and the movie ‘Ghost’ is ‘My love ghost’
Although Canada is an officially bilingual country, a large majority of Canadians do not speak a word of French. Every day, there are millions of Canadians reading French labels, listening to French telephone messages and sitting through French safety announcements — and having no idea what they’re hearing.
They might assume that every appearance of French is a pitch-perfect translation of English — but they would be wrong. Below, some of the ways in which Francophones don’t see Canada quite the same as Anglophones.There is no word for “premier” in French, which means that Canada’s 13 provincial and territorial leaders are known as “prime ministers” or, more precisely, “first ministers.” As a result, Justin Trudeau isn’t theThe “d” in “D-Day” doesn’t stand for anything.
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