[joanie]

you guys measure temperature in degrees Celcius, distance in kilometres, and speed in kilemetres per hour. But you measure height in feet/inches and weight in pounds, right? So what all do you use the metric measuament for? And what about the imperial measurament? What about as far as ovens go?

SD handled this pretty darn well, so I'll leave it.

Also, it's 'runners' instead of 'tennies' or 'sneakers', right?

Exactly. Brits have "trainers," and we certainly have cross-trainers, but they're usually runners.

'Pop', - not 'soda', right? 'Washroom' - not 'restroom', right? 'Housecoat' - not 'bathrobe', right?

Generally, yes. I hear they also say "pop" in Chicago to mean soft drinks. Soda sounds strange to me.

Instead of 12th grade - it's grade 12, right? Instead of grading a paper/test - it's marking a paper/test, right? And it's 'supply teacher' - not 'substitute teacher', right? Do you really say 'public school' instead of 'elementary school' - or do you say 'primary school'?

I say I went to elementary school, to junior high, and to high school. I don't say "public school," but I think this is very regional. Supply teachers are pretty universally Canadian, I think. As for Grade 1, 2, 3, etc, I think that's also pretty universal.

I know it's 'girl guides' instead of 'girl scouts' - and they sell 'girl guide' cookies instead of 'girl scout' cookies, right? What about 'boy scouts', though? Is that 'boy guides', too - or is it 'boy scouts'?

Yeah, Stephen's taken care of this. Boys have beaver, cubs, scouts, and usually something called "venturers" while girls have sparks, guides, etc.

What are some other wording differences between Canada and the US?

Well, you Canadians might say:
"elastic" to mean "rubber band"
"being sick" to mean "puke"
"regular" meaning "medium" (i.e. size of a pop or coffee) and not meaning a particular cream/sugar combination in coffee (as in U.S. northeast)
"all dressed" meaning "all ingredients on it"
"eavestroughs" not "gutters" (on the "rooves" not "rufs" of "how-ses", not "houses")
"March Break" not "Spring break"
"pogey" as in unemployment assistance
"shit disturber" meaning a trouble-maker, often a witty one
"two four" meaning a case of beer
"mickey" meaning a small bottle of booze (what Americans call "a fifth")
"Javex" (a brand), meaning bleach (the way you say Kleenex to mean tissue)
"garburetor" to mean garbage disposal
"cake" to mean "non-immigrant white Canadian" (this is important given higher numbers of foreign-born citizens)

Also, they "write" exams rather than "take" or "sit" them.

Do you say 'herb' or 'erb'? Do you say 'proe-gress' and 'proe-ject' instead of 'prah-gress' and 'prah-ject'? Do you say 'cair-ruh-bee-uhn' - not 'cuh-ri-bee-uhn'? And is it 'sheh-jule' - not 'skeh-jule'? I know you pronounce it 'a-bout', not 'a-boot' - but you use a raised vowel type pronunciation, though?

This is also very regional. The Canadian norm tends to be "proe" rather than "prah" (and, in fact, our "prah" never sounds like yours - it's more a "proeah" ). Generally, it's "erb"' rather than "herb", but this was different just a generation ago. Caribbean is a mess. Usually, it's skeh-jule. There are lots of strange variants.

Generally, pronunciation favours the earlier part of words. For example, a Canadian never says to-MOR-row, but always TO-mor-row. This is actually an easy way to distinguish Americans from Canadians (especially as many Americans say what to our ears sounds like to-MAHR-ow). There are also lots of other variants. For example, for "foyer," a Canadian will never say "foy-er" but "foy-eh" as if it were proper french.

Canadians also usually pronounce Montreal Mun-tree-all and never MON-treeal" like the Yanks.

Cheers mate.