Hi all.

One of those things partially in retina, unable to remember ...

Once in a documentary of perhaps 30 years ago, heard the term Canadians use or used to refer to a U.S. dwelling, -read 'American'-  style of houses, or type of construction, or some building process, or particular shape, or characteristic...  Never heard that word before nor after.  Cannot remember 🤔 

Any clues please ?  It is not necesarily a despective or favorable word, and not a common used word either but seemed genuine.   Like replacing the word 'American' in the phrase "American house" from Canadian slang -or not slang- !  term.

Lots of different types/descriptions in the US

Ranch, bungalow, Victorian, townhouse, cottage, colonial, split-level, tudor, and others

 

Back in the building boom days in Ireland of the 80s - 90s, they used to nickname an ostentatious new house as "Southfork" in a sarcastic way, after the ranch house in the "Dallas" soap opera. And they often still do. 

A derisive term for newer development “cookie cutter” developments is McMansion

Canadians generally refer to houses according to their architectural style, such as "cottage", "Victorian house", "colonial style house", "Tudor style house", among others. In addition, there are certain distinguishing features in Canadian home construction, such as the use of cold-resistant building materials to withstand Canadian winters, but these features are not used to distinguish U.S. homes from Canadian homes.

Edited April 24, 20232 yr by Phi for All
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Canadians in different regions might also use different terms.

The words "ranch" and "bungalow" have both been used for the same style - single story house laid out along a central hallway; it was a change here from the standard two-storey plus attic, square brick construction that had been the most common before the 1950's. The post war subdivisions of inexpensive, uniform 2-bedroom homes were often referred to as  ticky-tacky. In more affluent neighbourhoods, Craftsman, Cape Cod and Spanish colonial were popular.  

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It means fewer rental properties for tenants, and higher rents to ration the scarcity. Talk about an open goal!

On 4/22/2023 at 3:09 PM, Externet said:

Once in a documentary of perhaps 30 years ago, heard the term Canadians use or used to refer to a U.S. dwelling, -read 'American'-  style of houses, or type of construction, or some building process, or particular shape, or characteristic...  Never heard that word before nor after.  Cannot remember

Was it "Foursquare" by any chance?  We used to live in one.  

Thanks.   Foursquare does not ring, but seems you understand the question.  The word am looking for is mostly a demonym for United States.   A demonym name for 'an item from a particular place'  (U.S.) attributed to or used by some Canadians.

Demonym implies a person -I think-.  What would be instead, a 'demonym' for an object ?

Edited May 10, 20232 yr by Externet
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Domain?

Thanks.  No, 'domain' does not click...

Another example:  For Spain,

a person demonym is 'spaniard'.  

an object/thing can be  'spanish castle'

There’s the French word “chez,” as in chez moi (my house) or chez nous (our house) or chez vous (your house).

I can think of American locations that are in architectural styles, like Prairie School or Cape Cod or California bungalow.  (that last also called American Craftsman)

Well, 'American' is conflictive.  As America is a continent, not this country.  The U.S. is in America, but it is not it.  And not the only united states either.

And in the past,

There is an interesting article about it ---> https://djaunter.com/american-demonym/

Perhaps am peeing out of the can, and the term am after is more a toponym for U.S. 🤔

Or even another term I ignore, like :

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An oeconym, also econym,^[1] or oikonym (from Greek: οἶκος, oîkos, 'house, dwelling' and ὄνυμα, ónuma, 'name') is a specific type of toponym that designates a proper name of a house or any other residential building, and in the broader sense, the term also refers to the proper name of any inhabited settlement, like village, town or city.^[2][3][4] Within the toponomastic classification, main types of oeconyms (econyms, oikonyms) are: astionyms (proper names of towns or cities),^[5] and comonyms (proper names of villages).^[6]

Edited May 11, 20232 yr by Externet
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Something like a California bungalow or Chicago bungalow, then, but broader in its geographic designation?  Say, for example, some house was called a Yankee Saltbox.  

As an architecture buff, I admit I'm stumped.  

That Woody Guthrie phrase just ran through my head, Little boxes made of ticky tacky...