It's pronounced 'zed', okay?

In an effort to shock Little Man in a Toque with my indulgence, I am going to type out the alphabet on my computer screen and do a word association thingy to each letter that somehow relates to my country.

Instead of my native Kreblachistan, for which I have sworn an unswervingly loyal oath of secrecy (under threat of being taunted and ridiculed while standing naked in front of all of my ex-girlfriends... both of them), I will arbitrarily choose, umm, Canadia as a surrogate.

In a staggering leap of mental fluency, I will call it:

Canadian Word Association (of death!!)

A. - Alberta beef
B. - Beer
C. - Chretien
D. - Doughnut (I have ever spelt it thus, LMiaT)
E. - Edmonton Oilers
F. - Frost heaving
G. - Gretzky
H. - Hockey Night in Canada
I. - Inept politicians
J. - Jonathon Power, squash supah-star
K. - Kitchener-Waterloo General Hospital
L. - Lucy Maud Montgomery
M. - Manitoba Bison
N. - Navy?  What navy?
O. - Okanagan Valley
P. - Portage and Main, 50 below
Q. - Quoi?
R. - Redneck
S. - Sod only refers to grass
T. - Trees don't grow in the Arctic
U. - United States neighboUr
V. - Veterans, lest we forget
W. - World Wars
X. - Xylophones are not made here
Y. - Yellowknife
Z. - Zed, okay?  It really is pronounced zed.  Zed.

NOTE:
Frost heaving (the entry for F.) can refer either to a common surficial geological event caused by the expansion of water as it freezes in the first two metres or so of exposed earth in winter, or to a similarly frequent phenomenon as seen outside Edmonton's Whyte Avenue bars in February during the university's Reading Week.

And to aid in proliferation, feel free to copy and modify to suit the country of your choice.  But if you too are from Kreblachistan, remember your oath!

I will officially tag a few that I think may do it, and who may read this:

Penny of Fresh cup... move down
Tina of Ride along with me
Jaquandor of Byzantium's Shores

That'll do for now.  I'm too bloody lazy to link any more when I really ought to be in bed.

Comments

[Penny]

Okay, I'm in, but what is Quoi??? Oh and my condolences on being Kreblachistanian.. tough break, that one... ;) Penny

[Simon]

Quoi? is the French word for What?

And it's not so bad being Kreblachistanian. Once you get over the fact that all firstborn children are sacrificed to keep the wolves at bay. Great universal health care.

[Chris]

I never really knew about frost heaving until reading Family Handyman. I had lived in Florida until 2000 so it was never really a concern.

Great journal.

[Jenn]

Si, you are so exotic. You have to stop all this Canadian sweet-talking and Peak Freaning or my husband won't let me visit you here anymore.

I bet you say Gravol instead of Dramamine, too.

[Paula]

Jenn, Simon's fooled you. If you look closely at his post, he's actually talking about the country of Canadia, not Canada.