[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Cheese

^^ I can barely understand a damned thing that you wrote...?

What don't you understand

but I do want to know what candian military are referred as: Beaver ####ers

size

Spoiler!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regimen...anadian_Forces

• 1 Combat Engineer Regiment (1 CER)[1]
  • 1 Career Ending Regiment[citation needed]

• 1st Hussars (1 H)[2]
  • 1st Hosers[citation needed]

• 4th Air Defence Regiment, RCA (4 AD REGT)[3]
  • 4th Alcohol and Drug Regiment[citation needed]

• 5th (British Columbia) Field Regiment, RCA (5 RCA)[citation needed]
  • Five Tribe[4]

• 5 Service Battalion
  • 5 Battalion, No Service: from '"5 BN S"' and soldiers' beliefs their individual needs cannot always be met. Can be applied to any service battalion.

• 5e Régiment d'artillerie légère du Canada
  • 5 Rounds All over La Country - from the units '5 RALC' designation[5]

• 6e Régiment d’artillerie de campagne, ARC (6e RAC)[citation needed]
  • 6e Rack à bicycle[citation needed] (6th Bike Rack)

• 7th Toronto Regiment, RCA (7 RCA)[6]
  • 7 Guns or 7 Toronto
  • 7 RCA used to be known as the Royal Chinese/Cantonese Artillery (Due the fact that a certain Asian Capt. placed an ad in the local Chinese language paper, informing immigrants that they could be fast tracked to citizenship if they joined 7 RCA. They were flooded with Asian recruits, and had 105 dets that only spoke Cantonese )
  • Seven Tor (shortening of the regiment's name)
  • Seven RCA[citation needed]

• 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) (VIII CH)[7]
  • The Crazy Eights:[8] play on the regimental number and the card game
  • Channel Eight: play on their slip-ons' abbreviation of their name "VIII CH"[citation needed]

• 10th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
  • 10 People Regiment, due to chronic shortages of soldiers

• 12e Régiment blindé du Canada (12 RBC)[9]
  • 12th Rubber Boot Company: from "12 RBC"[10]
  • Douzième rangée de beaux caves: from "12 RBC"[10]

• 30th Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
  • The Bytown Gunners (Founded in 1855, they are the oldest serving Artillery regiment in Canada, likewise at a time when the Nation's Capital was named Bytown after Col. By)
  • The Dirty Thirty

• 33 Service Battalion
  • The Dirty Thirty: Also refers to any service battalion in 5th Canadian Division
  • Circus Battalion

• 48th Highlanders of Canada (48 HIGHRS)[11]
  • The Dirty Four Dozen:[12] most likely a play on The Dirty Dozen, where “48” equals four dozen
  • The Forty-Eighths
  • The Glamour Boys:
    • According to Farley Mowat's The Regiment, the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment were known as "Ploughjockeys" due to their rural recruiting area, while the 48th Highlanders—who recruited from Toronto—were known as "Glamour Boys." This origin is also cited by the The War Amps.[13]
    • An alternate explanation comes from the blue puttees they wore; during an inspection by King George VI in World War II, the regiment wore blue puttees due to a shortage of khaki material. The king reputedly liked the blue puttees better than the khaki ones worn by the rest of the brigade, and authorized the regiment to keep them. This is the origin cited by the regiment itself.[12]

A–G[edit]

• The Algonquin Regiment (ALQ R)[14]
  • The Algoons[citation needed]: from World War II
  • The Gonks[citation needed]

• The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)
  • Ash Cans[1], from “ASH of C(an)”

• The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
  • 'the Ladies From Hell' - A name given to them by their German adversaries (Die Damen aus der Hölle) as they fought in kilts in World War I (and continued to until 1940)
  • The Black Jocks
  • The Black Crotch

• The Brockville Rifles
  • The Brocks[2]
  • The Broken Rifles[3]
  • The Brokeback Rifles

• The Calgary Highlanders
  • The Cowhides
  • Cal His: from the short title CALG HIGHRS.
  • Calgary Highgrinders[4]
• The Canadian Grenadier Guards
  • The Canadian Girl Guides[5] from "CGG"
  • The Guards[6]

• The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Duke of Edinburgh's Own)
  • Camerons
  • C.H. of O.
  • Drunks
  • Dirty ####ing Cameron
  • Jocks
  • Cougar Hunters of Ottawa
  • Goons

• The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's)
  • Can Scots[7]
  • CSR: sometimes confused with 1 Canadian Signals Regiment
  • Canned Scots
  • C Scot Run, C Scot Hide, C Scot lose his pride

• Canadian Special Operations Regiment
  • Canadian Soldier on the Run
  • Double-doubles, from the similarity in colour between their tan berets and coffee with cream (a double-double is a Tim Hortons coffee with two measures of cream and two of sugar)
  • ISOR-Eye Sore
  • C-Sort of: from the pronunciation of "CSOR" as "See-Soar."

• The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
  • The Dukes
  • Big Chinese Restaurant[8] based on the large number of Asians in Vancouver
  • Billion Chinese Regiment
• The British Columbia Dragoons
  • Apple Knockers
  • Better Class Drinkers[9]
  • Best Canadian Drunks"
  • British Columbia Baboons
  • British Columbia Discharges
  • Big Cocky Dickheads
  • Big Chicken Dinners
  • The second, third and fourth letters of the alphabet, in response to the question, 'What a BDC?'.

• The Essex and Kent Scottish
  • Eeks and Squeaks[15]
  • Essence of ####[10]

• The Fort Garry Horse
  • The Garrys[16]
  • Fugahwees, informally, from the initials FGH, as in "where the fugahwe?"
  • Fags, Gays, and Homos, from the initials FGH
  • ####in' Goo Heads, from the initials FGH

• Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke
  • The Fuzz de Sher [11], from Fus de Sher, or just the Fuzz, particularly by cross-town rivals, the Sherbrooke Hussars. The regiment's newsletter is also titled Fuz.
  • The Fuzzies

• The Governor General's Foot Guards
  • Guards.
  • Foot Guards.
  • Googoo Foogoos[12], from “GGFG”.
  • God's Gift to Fat Girls, from “GGFG”.
  • Gustav Gone for Good or Good God, Forgot the Gustav! Used after the regiment left an 84 mm Carl Gustav anti-tank weapon by the side of a road after a weekend exercise and then drove off. When the mistake was realized, and a party sent to retrieve it, the weapon had vanished.
  • Gods Gift For Gays
  • Drug addicts

• The Governor General's Horse Guards
  • God’s Gift to Horny Girls[13], from “GGHG”
  • Gugga Huggas[14], from “GGHG”
  • Gee Gee H Gees[15], from "GGHG"
  • Gee Gees[16], from "GGHG"
  • the Horse ####[5]

• The Grey and Simcoe Foresters
  • Farmer Johns[17]
  • The Gay and Simple Farmers[17]
  • The Gay and Simple Chorus Girls<regimental member pre WW2>
  • The Green and Slimy Foreskins[citation needed]
  • Ground Attack Nuclear Defence Special Forces (from G AND SF title on combat uniform rank slip-ons).
  • Goat and Sheep ####ers

H–Q[edit]

• Highland Light Infantry of Canada
  • Hell's Little Infants

• The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment
  • Hasty Pees, Hasty P’s[18]
  • Hasty Puds[17] from “HAST PER” with a play on “hasty pudding”
  • Plough Jockeys: from World War II, bestowed because of the regiment's rural roots[19]

• The Irish Regiment of Canada
  • 2 Irish (from the regiment in Sudbury, 2nd Battalion)
  • 2nd Irish
  • 2 Lep (2 Leprecaun)
  • The NOB's (Northern Ontario battalion, also includes The Algonquin Regiment)

• The King's Own Calgary Regiment
  • King's Own
  • Kay Ohs
  • #### Rs
  • Knights of Columbus Regiment
  • King's Own Kitty Killers
• The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment
  • Lake Superior Snake Rapers[18]
  • Lower Slobovian Snake Rapers[19]
  • Lake Soups^
  • Losers (LSSR read as a word)
• The Lincoln and Welland Regiment
  • The Lincs[20]
  • The Lincs and Winks[20]

• Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
  • Strathconas[20]
  • Straths or Strats[21]
  • The Strathconeheads
  • Lady Strathcona's Riding Club[21]
  • Fatconas
  • Fat Strats
  • Likeable Dumb ####heads^
  • A common joke used during exchanges between soldiers of Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) and of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is, "Why don't we do this on a first name basis. You can call me Lord and I'll call you Princess."
  • Little Dumb #### Heads (Running Confused)
• The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment)
  • The Forlorn Scots[22]
  • The Horny Lornies: jocular rhyme
  • Tweety’s or Tweeties: from the primrose hackle resembling the Tweety Bird cartoon character
  • Nun ####ers

• The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)
  • The Loyal Eds[23]
  • Loyal Eddies
  • Eddies

• North Saskatchewan Regiment
  • • Nisker[24], a humorous pronunciation of their abbreviated name 'N Sask R'
    • Niskers[25], pluralization of the singular 'Nisker'

• The Nova Scotia Highlanders
  • Ladies from Hades: from the First World War; a jocular reference to their kilted battle dress and their fierce fighting.[22]
  • Highlanders: This name can also be applied to other highland regiments, but is used mainly for this regiment. They could also be derived from the common name (highlander) of the unit's cap badge.

• The Ontario Regiment
  • Ontars[26] from “OntR”
  • Scaredy Cats: from the unit's cap badge, a cat with an arched back
  • The Pissing Cats, as above
  • Screaming Pussies, as above
  • Meow!

• The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC)
  • The Fighting 17th
  • S.I.D.'s (Spud Island Dragoons)

• Princess Louise Fusiliers
  • Flaming Testicle: taken from grenade with flames on the regiment's cap badge.
  • Pretty Ladies #### Us: from their shoulder flashes that read PL Fus. Used by members of the regiment when asked what it stands for.
  • Please Ladies #### Us Soldiers
  • Poorly Lead Followers

• The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment
  • The Pee-Dubs[23]

• Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
  • The Patricias:[24] the preferred nickname among soldiers actually serving in, or who have served with, the regiment.
  • The Pats[20]
  • Princess Pat's[27]: generally used only by the media.
  • The Picklies[20] or Picks[28], from “PPCLI”
  • Ping Pong Champions of Long Island[29]
  • Ping Pong Champions of Lulu Island
  • Pud-Pulling Cowboys Learning Italian[30]: extremely derogatory name that is both a mockery the Patricias' geographic location in Western Canada and an allusion to them being D-Day Dodgers.
  • Peanuts, Popcorn, Candy, Licorice and Ice Cream
  • Please Protect Canada's Little Idiots
  • Piss Pot Cleaners and Latrine Inspectors
  • The Mickey Mouse Brigade - this may be a reference to a popular insult that was sung to members of the regiment to the Mickey Mouse Club theme music: "M-I-C-K-E-Y P-P-C-L-I"
  • Princess Pocahontas' Cute Little Indians
  • Poor Pricks Can't Leave Italy - From WW2, the PPCLI was fighting in Italy and was not present for the Normandy landings
  • VP: from Victoria Patricia, original colonel-in-chief. Often preceded by battalion number.
  • Vicious Patricias: from the VP on the dress uniform's buttons, which from above actually stand for "Victoria Patricia"

• The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
  • Queen's Own
  • The Rifles
  • Quickest out of Ridgeway, their disorganized withdrawal at the Battle of Ridgeway
• The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)
  • The Rangers
  • QYRangs or Q'wairang[31], from the unit's 'QYRng' designation (pronounced KWAI rang)
  • KY Rangers[32],
  • The Black Plague, Black from black headdress—Plague from not breaking contact with the enemy—'plaguing the enemy'.
  • Queen's York Strangers[5]
  • Queer Yanks

R–Z[edit]

• Régiment de Hull
  • 'Are Dull' English pronunciation of "R de Hull'
• The Rocky Mountain Rangers
  • Rim Rangs[33]
  • The Rocky Mountain Ram ####ers - The unit cap badge of the big horn sheep
  • The Rocky Mountain Rabbit Rapers
  • The Rocky Mountain ######s
  • The Rocky Mountain Rim-jobs

• Royal 22e Régiment
  • The Van Doos: from an English corruption of the French vingt-deux or “twenty-two”. This name dates back to the Great War where the 22e was the first battalion raised in which French was used as the language of command and the only French speaking unit that served in the front-lines.
  • Les hosties de queues plates: (literally, "the communion wafer flat-tails". Better translated as "the damn flat-tails": hostie is a mild and common Canadian-French curse) from the beaver on the regimental badge. Seldom used within the regiment or the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group anymore. Considered vulgar.
  • Les Vingt-Deux: the Twenty-Twos.
  • Régiment Canadien Français: literally, "French Canadian Regiment."
  • " Van Goons."

• The Royal Canadian Dragoons
  • The RCDs: taken directly from their shoulder titles.
  • Bambi: taken from their cap badge.
  • Dancing (Prancing) Goats: their cap badge.
  • Dragoons: Shortened title.
  • Drags: reference made to the RCD in early (1920s–30s) editions of the regimental journal of The Royal Canadian Regiment, which shared the Toronto and ST. John's, Que., garrisons with the RCD
  • The Dragons: common non-service mispronunciation of the word. Known to irritate RCD troopers to no end, and thus, is sometimes used deliberately for that purpose.
  • Deer-Jumping Fairies: derogatory term for the springbok in their badge. Usually used by Strats.
  • The Goons or Da Goons[34]
  • ######ed Coyote Driver (RCD)
  • Re-Conditioned Drunks (RCD)

• The Royal Canadian Regiment
  • The RCR: the official short title of the regiment
  • Royal Canadians
  • The Royals[35] (incorrect, but often used colloquially by those who do not know this is more properly used to refer to The Royal Regiment of Canada)
  • Pukkas: Second World War, 1st Division, 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade was an Ontario brigade with the 48th Highlander ("The Glamour Boys"), the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment ("The Plough Jockeys"), and the RCR. A longtime Permanent Force regiment with an impeccable reputation for high professional standards, correctness, and reliability, The RCR came to be known as the "Pukkas." Pukka was an Anglo-Indian term current in the British Army that meant genuine, permanent, or solidly built.[25]
  • Shino Boys: a First World War nickname given to The RCR by soldiers of other units, noting the regiment's high standards of dress and deportment [26]
  • Run Chicken Run[36]: A widely repeated but highly apocryphal story has the nickname resulting from a romantic liaison between a member of the regiment and a chicken. In reality, it probably stems from the fact that the chicken is jokingly referred to by envious others as "the regimental bird." Which explanation is offered usually depends on whether or not the person asked is a member of the regiment. Chickens feature greatly in derogatory nicknames assigned to The RCR, such as Rubber Chicken Regiment, RCR Soup on Dining Hall menus, etc.
  • Coop: Used by military members to refer to the unit's battalions, i.e. 1 coop, 2 coop, 3 coop.
  • Rocking Chair Rangers[37]
  • Chicken ####ers
  • ######s Carrying Rifles
  • The Brasso Kings: First World War nickname mentioned in 1935 Connecting File, the regimental journal of The Royal Canadian Regiment
  • The Royal Cleaning Regiment
  • Rubber Chicken Rapers

• The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment)
  • The Rileys[38], from “RHLI”
  • The Rock Hudson Light Infantry

• The Royal Montreal Regiment
  • Run Monkey Run
  • Royal Montreal Rejects: meaning that they could not get into a "better" unit.
  • Royal Minority Regiment: used to illustrate the ethnic diversity within its ranks.
  • Russian Montreal Regiment: a joke popular among the many Russian speaking members of the regiment.

• The Royal New Brunswick Regiment
  • The Royal Newfoundland Backup Regiment

• Royal Newfoundland Regiment
  • The Blue Puttees: name actually limited to the first 500 volunteers of the Newfoundland Regiment in 1914, as there was only blue broadcloth available to make puttees

• The Royal Regiment of Canada
  • Royals (also used, incorrectly, to refer to The Royal Canadian Regiment)
  • The Royal Refugees of Canada
  • The Fugees: used to illustrate the high number of members of different ethnicities. Two subcategories are eastern European (Winter battalion) and African-Canadian(Summer Battalion)

• The Royal Regina Rifles
  • The Reginas[39]
  • The Farmer Johns: the majority of the first members of the Regiment were farm labourers
  • The Johns: derived from “The Farmer Johns” and now the "official" unofficial nickname
• The Royal Westminster Regiment
  • The Westies[40]
  • The Wheaties

• The Royal Winnipeg Rifles
  • Little Black Devils: Infantry of the line usually wore scarlet tunics, while rifle units wore dark green—almost black—tunics. After the Battle of Fish Creek during the Northwest Rebellion of 1885, a captured Métis asked, "The red coats we know, but who are those little black devils?"—hence also the Latin motto: “Hosti Acie Nominati”, “named by the enemy in battle”
  • Little ###### Boys: Another name after the before mentioned battle.

• The Saskatchewan Dragoons
  • The Sask Buffoons[41]
  • The Gap Dragons (The Gap in between Alberta and Manitoba)

• The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
  • The Seafroth[42]
  • Seafilth[43]
  • The Gow Deeks: mispronunciation of the Scots Gaelic motto “Cuidich’n Righ”, “Help the King”
  • The Bullwinkles: based on the stag’s head of the cap badge supposedly resembling the cartoon character Bullwinkle J. Moose
  • The Horny Stags: a derogatory term for the stag's head cap badge

• The Sherbrooke Hussars
  • The Sherbie Herbies[44]
• The South Alberta Light Horse
  • The Sally Horse[45], from the “SAL” in “SALH”
  • Sally-Ho[46], with a play on the phrase "tally-ho"
  • Silly Horse
  • Super Amazing Legendary Heroes[47]
  • Suitcase and Luggage Handlers[48]
• The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders
  • The Glens[49]
  • Sand, Dust and Gravel[50] from the “SD&G” in “SD&G Highrs” (also "Sand, Dirt and Gravel").
  • Stupid, Dumb and Gay Highlanders, also from SD&G
  • The STDs, also from "SD&G"
  • The Ladies from Hell from wearing their kilts to battle in World War II

• The Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own)
  • The Tor Scots[51] from “TOR SCOT”
  • Tor Scots R
  • TSR
  • The Trot Scots: rhyming nickname
  • Six-Bits (re: 75th Battalion two-bits is 25cents x 3 = 75 cents or Six-Bits"

• The West Nova Scotia Regiment
  • The West Novas[52]. Usage: The Canadian Military Journal; The War Amps[dead link]

Disbanded or inactive regiments[edit]

• The Canadian Airborne Regiment (Disbanded 6 March 1995)
  • The Regiment: the precise origin is unknown, but may come from the fact that the British 22nd Special Air Service Regt is also called familiarly "The Regiment", although the Airborne was never affiliated with the SAS, but rather, The Parachute Regiment. However, that use of "The Regiment" to refer to one's own regiment amongst members is not unique, it was presumed by members of the CAR that all others would 'know' which regiment they meant.
  • The Stillborn (As the rest of the Army knew them)
  • Meat Bombs
  • Lawn Darts
  • Calling All ######s
• 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards (reduced to nil strength 1964)
  • The PLUGS (As they kept plugging away)
  • Pretty Little Dancing Girls
• the 42nd Battalion - the Royal Highlanders of Canada, CEF (WWI) (perpetuated by the Black Watch of Canada)
  • The Forty-Twas[27]
• the 75th Mississauga Battalion CEF (WWI) (perpetuated by the Toronto Scottish Regiment (Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own), who still wear the 75th's flash on their collar dog and dress belt buckles
  • the Jolly 75th[28]
  • Chair Borne
  • The Borne
  • The Six Bits (25 cents = 2 bits; hence six bits)