Gee! I'm having fun. Imagine a French-Canadian coming from a family where no one spoke English, married to a bilingual Irish lad. I feel my head buzzing with all those new words.
I do have an explanation for the sink called or pronounced zink in certain places. My grandmother who only spoke French also called her sink a zink simply because the first one were simply made of zinc. It makes sense because in France in the cafés (coffee shops) the counter made of metal is also called a zinc