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[-] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago

Canadians are chomping at the bit here to get a reason to go burn down the Whitehouse again.

[-] locotx@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago
[-] glibg@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago

You're a true chompion of the English language.

[-] Gerblat@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

I’ll drink to that

gulps down a mouthful of chompagne

[-] ryanpdg1@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

It's only chompagne if it comes from the chompagne region of Fronce

[-] NebulaNymph@programming.dev 9 points 23 hours ago

True, otherwise it's just sporkling wine

[-] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

They're generally both considered correct. "Chomping at the bit" has been in use for over 100 years.

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Language, where you just have to be wrong long enough that your version becomes a dialect.

[-] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

It's literally the worst.

[-] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Champing at the bit sounds dumb af tbh and I've never heard it before IRL compared to chomping.

[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

After a LOT of rabbit holes, …it’s both.

[-] MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

From a grizzled, old, Scottish WWII veteran: “Young Man, I’ll tell ya something I learned in the war, never, ever underestimate those Canadians! They are the toughest soldiers I encountered in the war.”

FTR: he also said he thought Germans were pansies, lol.

Dead now, but he was a tough SOB, himself (I mean, he WAS Scottish, so that’s a pedigree right there).

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 21 hours ago

Many of us Canadians still have some Scottish blood. And I bet it works as well as it ever did.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Hah I wish. Society is to soft abdicated to screens and comfort. As long as the masses are entertained almost anything can happen.

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I thought it was the brittish that did that during the war of 1812?

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