Sailing & Sea
Etymology
Etymology
The modern English "sail" comes originally from this dead language.
What is Old English?
What is the canoe?
What is three (Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic)?
The original home of its namesake, you can call someone a "bluenoser" if they are from this Atlantic Canadian province.
What is Nova Scotia?
The word "buoy" originates from which of the following languages: Old English, Old French, or Old Dutch?
What is Old French?
Soundly beating out Christopher Columbus as the "discoverer" of the Americas, vikings began settling along the northern tip of what is now Newfoundland during the late years of this century.
What is the 10th century (CE)?
This many lakes comprise Canada's freshwater, more than any other country in the world (+/- 100 000)
What is 2 000 000 (according to most estimates)?
If a schoolchild in the Maritimes is asked to get out a "scribbler," they will pull this object from their backpack.
What is a notebook?
This Ancient Greek mythological figure is the origin of the name for the Atlantic Ocean
Who is Atlas?
This is the decade that humans first explored the Challenger Deep.
What is the 1960s?
Home to the world's highest, the Bay of Fundy sees tides reach up to this height (+/- 5 feet)
What is 53 feet (16 metres)?
Not the kindest of terms, a Maritimer might call someone a CFA if they are new to the area, an expression which stands for...
What is "Come From Away"?
This was the original name of the port side of a ship, in Middle English.
What is ladebord (or laddebord) ("Loading Side")
Located mostly in what is now Iraq, Mesopotamia was the site of one of if not the earliest human civilisation. It was situated, as its name suggests, between two rivers. Name both of them.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers?
Move over, Scotland! This Canadian province is allegedly home to a sea monster of its own, named "Ogopogo"
What is British Columbia (Lake Okanagan)?
Define the Maritime English verb "biff".
What is throwing something with force?
Nowadays a slang term for idle office chatter and gossip, this term originates from a group of sailors gathering around a barrel of fresh drinking water, and poking a hole in it to get the water out.
What is "scuttlebutt"?
How old is the ocean (+/- 1 000 000 years)
What is 3.8 to 4 billion years old?
How long is Canada's coastline (+/- 10 000km)?
This trait, when displayed by little maritime children, often warrants their mother telling them to "stop being such a sook!"
What is being whiny, pouty, etc.