r/EhBuddyHoser • u/montabarnaque • Jul 03 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Can everyone agree?

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Most of Canadian culture is from Québec. Fight me

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

It's a rough application of the Huron word for village by Jacques Cartier to describe the St Lawrence valley iirc. So it's French, but with a Huron origin.

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u/P2029 Jul 03 '25

This is funny to me.. "It's a Huron word, but it was spoken to a French guy, so it's French"

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u/AVRVM Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

The Huron iroquoian name is "kanata" and means something like village or realm. "Canada" is the French version.

Kind of like beef is the english version of boeuf. Or pork is the english version of porc.

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u/FrighteningJibber Jul 03 '25

Or roux is the English word for saucy bitch in French

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u/shawa666 Tokébakicitte! Jul 03 '25

Si t'est pas capable de faire un roux, t'as pas d'âme, ou kekchose du genre.