A list of words I hear all the time and like hearing all the time:

Lower Mainland: The Lower Mainland is the area in which Vancouver lies in British Columbia. Mainland because there is also Vancouver Island/Victoria which is obviously not part of the mainland.

Bertuzzi: Disgraced former Vancouver hockey hero. Still a hero in many fans’ eyes but sadly is now more well known for a dirty attack he made against another player on the ice. He still plays for Vancouver. Cool name.

Dyke: a geographical term nothing to do with Oxford St or Mardi Gras.

The Prairies: Sounds like a place where bunnies and squirrels roam, or a grunge band from Seattle, but I’m guessing its our version of ” the countryside”. Its flat. I’m sure there are bunnies and squirrels.

Pop: No, not U2′ s underappreciated, most misunderstood album, but soft drink. Everytime I’m asked if I’d like Pop, I can’t help but want to kiss them, thinking they are a clued in Pop loving U2 fan like myself. However, its just Pepsi.

Cotton Candy: They serve Fairy Floss in movie theatres here. Fairy Floss!!!

Snow shoeing: Just what it sounds like except instead of shoes, you wear tennis racquets.

Interior: No they aren’t obsessed with the inside of their cars, the interior is the inner part of the country that we would call ” the big part where nobody lives” .