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it's funny how words can take on very diff meanings in diff cultures using the same language.QUOTE]
Around here we use the word "fixing" when we're getting ready to do something. As I'm fixing to go to the store do you need anything? Some people say "finah" for the same thing. Most words I can figure out how they originated but not that one. I'm repairing to go to the store? Just doesn't cut it.
immediately that Bob Dylan song comes to mind, "I'm fixing to die, fixing to die"
re toques, heck I've been wearing one for the last few days again, winter is giving us a last kick at the can, right now at 9:40am its still -7c and tonight will be a balmy -9c....hopefully in a day or two it will be over finally.
In a while I'm getting on my bike to go to work, I need the real bike excerise (opposed to my bike on a trainer) and I'll be wearing a balaclava, with a really thin toque on top of that and a fleece neckup too.
re words, I grew up with British grandparents, I have family living in the UK, I live in the French part of Canada and speak French, in other words, I have lots of experience with diff uses of words, but that toboggan, that was a first for me.