Some speakers make liberal use of profanity, with varying degrees of creativity. A couple of commonly heard phrases elsewhere unused are "Jeezlus" and "un-fuckin-real". In jest, friends will often inquire to their peers as to whether or not they "are fucked", usually when chirping. Profanity is commonly used to indicated the intensity of an opinion; many Maritime English speakers would be quick to understand that the sentence "Some jeezlus hot, wha?" means "It is currently very hot outside". In common with Australian and New Zealand English, Atlantic Canadians use the term "sook" (pronounced like "book") to mean a cry-baby or whinger.