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Originally Posted by lio45
Another one that I guess could get used on both sides of the border is to talk of the Great Lakes region, though maybe in Canada people instead just say "Ontario"...? Actually now that I'm pausing to think about it, they probably do, so scratch that. No Albertan would ever say "I'm relocating to the Great Lakes region", they'll say "I'm relocating to Ontario".
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Definitely. The "Great Lakes region" sounds a bit academic, or like something a weather reporter says. Americans say midwest for Great Lakes states, and in Canada it's simply Ontario. To wit:
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When she accepted an offer to do her masters at Wilfrid Laurier University, it was in part because the program on cultural analysis and social theory sounded unique, but also because she’d get the chance to live in Ontario.
http://www.macleans.ca/lindsay-sheph...lfrid-laurier/
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Yep, turns out Ontario is a dream destination for kids in BC. Heh.
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Originally Posted by lio45
The same concept applies to the "west coast": we don't really say that here, or if we do we probably mean the U.S. west coast, because if we mean Canada's west coast we can simply call that "BC".
"To go out west" means going to Prairies and/or BC.
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I'm quite certain most people here would assume you meant California if you said you were going to the west coast. Otherwise, BC is BC, and out west means anything from Manitoba to BC.
Though it would produce an amusing chuckle to clarify that you meant "Ontario's west coast." Which nobody actually says, as it's a fanciful term concocted by the tourism-minded Huron county government. We just say Lake Huron. Or maybe "the lake," as it's pretty clear which one you mean when you're around here.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.31516...7i13312!8i6656
https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.56506...7i13312!8i6656