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A person from England said to me that Canada (where I live) is one of his favourite locals. From my understanding, local means a local person or thing, so a person or thing that belongs to or connected with the place where you live. However, he lives in England, so what does his usage of local mean here? |
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Your friend probably meant locale:
It sounds similar but distinctly different. Maybe your friend got confused, or you heard it wrong. |
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It certainly is a possibility that the person from England said or meant to say locale, in the sense of a scene or place (1, 2), although it is somewhat odd, clumsy, and unusual to refer to a large country like Canada as a locale. Perhaps the person was attempting to make a joke, using local in the UK sense of “One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar” and implying that all of Canada is a bar or saloon. (That usage also would be odd, clumsy, and unusual.) |
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I would think he meant to say 'locale'. |
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