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Canada for 300: the nicknames for Canada's $1 and $2 currency pieces.
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Re: FIRST Jeoaprdy! (1/8)

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Canada for 300: the nicknames for Canada's $1 and $2 currency pieces.

what are loonie and toonie, respectively
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Re: FIRST Jeoaprdy! (1/8)

I don't quite get those, but you are correct.
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Re: FIRST Jeoaprdy! (1/8)

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I don't quite get those, but you are correct.
The $1 is called a loonie, because it has a loon on one side. A loon is a type of waterfowl, like a duck, if you didn't know that. The $2 coin was nicknamed the toonie because it's similar to a loonie, but TWO dollars instead of one, so they just changed the first part of the word.
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