It’s no secret that our neighbors to the north take a fair amount of ribbing for the way they speak sometimes. In truth, the Canadian dialect has been fodder for comedians, television shows and movies ...

University of Rochester linguist Andrew Bray started out studying the evolution of the trademark sports jargon used in hockey for his master’s thesis. For instance, a hockey arena is a “barn,” while ...

Hockey players are famous for their distinctive jargon, but while researching this phenomenon, a linguist and hockey player realized another interesting pattern in hockey speech: American hockey ...

Having holidayed and lived over a lot of Canada, I've never heard 'aboot'. I worked with Newfs, and their language is distinctive, but even they didn't use it. BTW, Wayne's accent dialect on ...

From 'eh' to 'toque,' Canadian slang is finding fans far beyond the Great White North. Once heard mainly in hockey rinks and Tim Hortons lines, these expressions are now popping up in conversations ...

As a hockey player, Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the "barn" (hockey arena). As a linguist, he wanted to understand how sport-specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams ...