|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:57 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:11 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:14 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:20 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:27 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:35 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:40 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:12 pm
|
|
|
|
124-C I was once told that I pronounce my NAME wrong. My bloody, ********, name. The other party claimed that with the second "A" in "Aaron" it should be pronounced awe-ron instead of air-ron. I say "arr-on" (as in, like "arrow" minus the "ow", add an "on").
People are always telling me off for saying "bury" like "burrow" (minus the "ow", add an "ee"). Apparently, it's meant to be said like "berry", but surely this depends on your accent, and where you're from? People up north say "bury" like "burr-ee"...
It sure as hell isn't as bad as Bass' example of mispronunciation...>_>
Kals sieve is spelled seev, I think it's that crazy Brit influence that makes us call it a siv. Seriously, if Chichester is pronounced "Chister" and Worchester is pronounced "Wooster" then of course you'd say "siv". At least they aren't calling rooms "rums" and roofs "ruffs" or saying "a boat" when they mean "about"... Try Scotland or further up north for that. :3 I'm pretty sure they say "a boat" and "rums".
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:28 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 10:37 pm
|
|
|
|
Kals is questing again!
Oh I know all about East Coast Canadian dialects...
Like the way that a short A ends up sounding like... something else all together.... Car, for instance ends up sounding like care, and bar like bear. Not quite care and bear, but something in between those and the normal A sound. Kind of... Scottish sounding, which makes sense considering which people actually immigrated to that part of the country the most. I've heard this particular accent from people who hail form Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, AND PEI.
The ones that drive be bonkers the most besides "ruff" and "rum" (and warsh yer hands in the crick after you bin on the ruff) are things like "lie-berry" for libraray, axe for ask, pronouncing "ing" like "een", "um-ur-kin" for American, and yes, tranna for Toronto. Also people out here in "alburda" tend to say "kal-gree" instead of Calgary. Oh, and they're kill-OHM-it-ers, not KILL-o-meat-ers.
That pricks me about as much as people who think that "irregardless" is an actual word, or who misuse apostrophes (it's not that hard to use an apostrophe in its appropriate place, and to leave it out where it's not needed!) or people who want me to "close the lights." Uhm, do you want me to... close the circuit, thus turning them on? No, you want me to turn them off. wtf.
Ciel: I'm pretty sure East Coasters are more likely to say "a-boot" than "a-boat". Your list of Nova Scotia words actually sound like Arkansas to me...
Did you know that Newfoundland English is so far from conventional English that it is considered an official dialect, like Ebonics? "where ya come to, bye?" means "where are you from?"
PM for details!
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:19 pm
|
|
|
|
Kals: biggrin I won't speak for PEI or Newfoundland, but in NS there's different accents depending on what part of the province you're from, even though it's a tiny province. People from Yarmouth sound nothing like people from Sydney, and neither of them sound like someone from Meteghan.
Based on my experience, I'd divide it up like this: -Cape Breton (English) (how's she goan, by?), which is close to Newfoundland English. The "a-boot" you're thinking of is definitely said here. -Cape Breton (Acadian), which is different from the other Acadian region.... -...which is South Shore/Par en Bas/Grand Pre, which has an entirely different Acadian accent -Halifax and the surrounding area -Annapolis Valley/Southern NS (Also use "a-boot") -Cumberland/North Shore NS (Where I'm from. A-boat, not a-boot.)
And my list of words is more Cape Bretoner than any other part of the province. : ) It would sound like Arkansas if you drawled, perhaps, but none of it is drawled or stretched out at all.
But what do I know? Clearly I only lived there for 20 years. xd
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 9:49 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:12 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|