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I've trying to focus on how I say about, from what I can conclude I pronounce it abaut (like how you would say Audi). It's not as pronounced as abowt, but not quite abawt either, somewhere in between.
However I'm an immigrant so I do pronounce some words slightly differently. |
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Three examples. I chose them because they're among my favourite local words/phrases, but also because all three of these folks have different accents.
This guy is definitely from St. John's: This guy is definitely from Placentia Bay (it's my favourite of Newfoundland's accents. VERY Irish, and such a lovely sing-song way of talking): And this woman, I suspect, spent many years on the mainland. I can't place her accent locally at all: |
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This video has a good number of people speaking in the rural Alberta accent. Pay attention to the way they pronounce "farm" and the way a lot of them (but not all of them, as you will see) insert "ah" unstead of "uh" or "uhm" in their pauses. This video shows the differences between the urban Alberta accent (used by the newscasts) and the rural Alberta accents (from the residents in High River). You'll note how much faster people from the city talk and how we clip our vowels more. |
Thanks for the videos on this page. You can really hear the difference between the rural west and rural Ontario, even if the Ontario video is played up for effect.
I'm starting to understand why people in the west think of the "hoser" accent as an Ontario thing. |
I'm grateful to rural residents and lower socioeconomic groups for providing some regional variability in accents. Without them, all of Canada and the US would sound the same and that would be way too boring.
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His Os are either pronounced freakishly strongly (OhntariOoo) or like As (hahkey). I wonder how they decide which is which?
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This way of speaking is real. I was visiting Calgary and went to a footlocker or Champs at the Chinook mall and a Philipino kid helping me had this accent. I asked if he was from Toronto just for the heck of it and he said he was from Scarborough and moved to Calgary a year prior. |
Here is Kardinal Offishal, born and raised in Toronto. The Afro-Caribbean accent in Toronto is real, and it's not just first generation Jamaican immigrants. Pretty cool. If you watch more of those "Real Toronto" videos, a few of the born-and-raised Torontonians have the Caribbean influence in their accents. Others sound like the "What people from Toronto sound like" video. Even in Oakville you hear the latter (but not the Caribbean).
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Not saying he represents all Torontonians, but Rob Ford's accent sounds pretty typical for someone from his city to my ears.
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A couple of BC examples.
Castanet is a great source for this kind of thing. It's an online new show based out of Kelowna. Small town BC Kelowna kids I went to high school with the organizer of the event. |
I don't know, I really don't notice much difference at all in many of the videos you guys are posting. I think dialect is much more variable than accents are across Canada.
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That's so strange to me. The differences are obvious to my ears. That rural Ontario accent could be the opposite end of the world from the Placentia Bay one.
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I don't find a southern U.S. accent to be any further removed from how I talk than that rural Ontario one. They're both way, way off.
And accents can be similar in some ways and still sound completely different - like Baltimore, Boston, and NYC. |
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