By Mina Kerr-Lazenby, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Sometimes, when I’m feeling especially wicked, I like to play a little game called “Confuse the Canadian.”

Played during conversation, it involves me responding to a statement or question with deadpan sarcasm or a nonsensical English phrase. Almost every time someone gets a little head-scratchy, and more often than not — something which continues to surprise me — my hogwash is taken as gospel.

The Canadian way of hearing British linguistic acrobatics and taking it in a literal sense was one of the first things I noticed when I arrived in the country in August last year.

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