We’ll have to liven things up, then, eh?
Who knew how complicated this was?
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/watchwords-origin-of-the-term-canuck-lies-in-an-unlikely-place
Not the first term, meant as disparagement in some cases, to be embraced by the objects of such scorn.
As a kid, when Buffalo and Vancouver entered the league, I’d never heard the word pronounced. I’d think or say ‘KAY-nuck’. It was months before I heard the Blackhawks announcers utter ‘cuh-NUCK’.
Oh!
P.S. The article also explains where ‘Canada’ aka ‘Kanata’ comes from. Who knew? (In USA anyhoo…)
P.P.S. KAY-nuks win!