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Re: Local language culture
« Reply #30 on: January 09, 2023, 09:41:28 am »
You're right. Turns out it comes from the Ukrainian "gaci" or "gotchie." And t's not exclusively Manitoba. Saskatchean wears gitch too.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gitch

West of Lloydminster it's "ginch" or "gonch".