Canadians really like coins.
Anything less than five dollars is a coin. A coin! So, two dollars is a coin. One dollar coin. Quarters, Nickels. Dimes. Pennies. Makes me think of a line from The Grinch: “All the noise! Noise! Noise!” except it’s “All the coins! Coins! Coins!” Pockets jingle a bit and man, do coins accumulate!
The pic on the left there, is of a one dollar Canadian coin. Except you don’t call it a “one dollar Canadian coin” You call it a Loonie. Or perhaps it’s spelled l-o-o-n-e-y. There’s a word for the two dollar coin, too, I just can’t think of it at the moment.
Loonie. One dollar Canadian coin. Add that to words for things.
I keep forgetting that two dollars is a coin, too, handing over a five dollar to pay for $1.50 of something. I’m an American. We don’t have two dollar coins in the States. We do have one dollar coins, which, in #chicago, the CTA dispenses freely but refuses to accept as payment. Go figure.
As an American, the metric system is foreign to me. The first time I saw a weather report with “-2,” I panicked. That’s cold! I didn’t pack warm enough clothes! Except, -2 C is 28 F. That is not too bad.
Ah, but it is not “negative two.” Nope. In Canada, it is “minus 2.” Minus. Like you’re doing subtraction, which makes sense. 0 minus 2 = -2 after all, no? Not so much a word for things but, preference, perhaps.
And apparently it’s snowing in Vancouver. Really snowing. And guess what? My winter hiking/snow boots still haven’t arrived, thanks to FedEx #fail.
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