At 10:27 AM 7/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>My Canadian relatives called a sofa a chesterfield. I am pretty sure about
>that one. I call the two dollar coin a bear but I guess I am not sure if
>Canadians call it that.
>Dave
The Canadian two-dollar coin is called - imiginatively
- a Twoney.
Simply because the Canadian one-dollar coin is called
a Loony (cecause it is engraved with a drawing of a loon
(the water bird).
-- Sidney Allinson,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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