Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada - Page 42

kwoldtimer · #**821** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 6:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

To me he has what I would call a stereotypical hoser accent. It's a mix of North American and British Isles almost working class intonations.

I believe he is the cross-Canada sports guy for all of the CBC Radio local mornings shows, and does local-specific sportscasts for each city, but from a single location. Likely Halifax.

No, don't agree. I'd describe that as generic Southern Ontario/CBC English - i.e. pretty much Standard Canadian English. To note, however, that I may be biased as I would consider that very close to my own stellar accent!

kwoldtimer · #**822** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 6:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

Truth be told I am not too fond of that accent.

Also not crazy about the guy's accent here (co-anchor). Pronouncing all your S's as if they were soft SH's... makes my skin crawl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tHRFOOZ45Q

More than an "accent", I'd call that a very minor speech impediment combined with a rather exaggerated TV broadcaster intonation. Nobody actually speaks that way in real life.

Acajack · #**823** Posted **Aug 22, 2014, 6:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

More than an "accent", I'd call that a very minor speech impediment combined with a rather exaggerated TV broadcaster intonation. Nobody actually speaks that way in real life.

Yes, many broadcasters tend to go overboard with that it is true.

SignalHillHiker · #**824** Posted **Aug 24, 2014, 3:06 PM**

So, second post about chatting with this girl in five minutes (the other was about the weather)

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jeddy1989 and I quizzed the Irish girl staying with me last night to find out what in our dialect is actually from there. A couple of surprises.

They don't use the word "to" at the end of sentences in the way we do, ever.

"Where are you to?"

That struck her as very odd. Also, she was surprised by the number of different accents in the city. She picked up on the Bristol thing too.

They conjugate past tense as we do, by adding after. And, confirmed, it is just English words laid over an old Gaelic structure.

"I'm after going to the store!"

They add S to everything like we do. She called it "conjugating",

. Bit grand.

"I loves it! I wants some!"

Some old words come from Gaelic. Like calling a little girl a Lana - that's just girl in Gaelic.

AND she lost her mind when she saw the sign for Talamh an Éisc. She said it means "Land of God or Fish"

, but it's the Gaelic word for Newfoundland. She pronounced it for us... wow. SO much more gorgeous than I ever thought.

Razor · #**825** Posted **Aug 24, 2014, 3:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by kool maudit

you can kind of see why, every time there's a thread on the canadian accent, people disavow it ("i honestly don't know why the "aboot" thing exists i sound totally normal").

it's a hardcore class marker and a prole sign. look at the examples above... i mean, charming as they are from a sort of regional-intricacies-of-life perspective, these are basically (chimbley???) pretty retarded-sounding fragments.

Ha..I do know what he means, and heard it for myself..You just need to spend some time in Lanark county or anyplace rural for that matter along highway 7..Even as close to Ottawa as Almonte.

It's a weird mix of Irish/Scottish sounding with maybe American...Can't pin point it for sure

Acajack · #**826** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 3:26 PM**

Another CTV guy from Toronto who does the exaggerated emphasis and pronounces his S's as SH's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRgOlQhDyRA

Acajack · #**827** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 3:29 PM**

I thought you guys might find this interesting. From Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen's recent interview in the New York Times:

"Later, we lived near the Canadian border, and I did French in high school and heard it a lot on the radio. I had a passion for the Montreal Canadiens in the ’70s, so I made an effort.

In a way, it ended up being more of a job to work on my French for the film, and change my accent, which was a bit Québécois."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/ar...mmes.html?_r=0

esquire · #**828** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 3:29 PM**

Can someone explain to me why so many people turn "groceries" into "grow shrees"?

kwoldtimer · #**829** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 8:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Can someone explain to me why so many people turn "groceries" into "grow shrees"?

I don't like it, but "growshrees" and "growsherees" are pretty common down around here and, I believe, in parts of the USA. Strangely, nobody calls a grocer a growsher, at least I don't think they do.

SignalHillHiker · #**830** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 8:23 PM**

Gross-rees is common here, without the H. I'm sure some say it with the SH, but I've not heard it often.

Personally, I never say groceries. I just say I went to the grocery.

1overcosc · #**831** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 10:15 PM**

I say "growshrees", and so do most people I know in Eastern Ontario.

Or about Tuesday.
Toosday vs. Chewsday.
I say "Chewsday". For that, I'm rather unique in my social circles.

SignalHillHiker · #**832** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 10:26 PM**

Chewsday here too. Toosday does exist but it's part of the accents that actually say the whole word closer to Toos-dee.

Aylmer · #**833** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 10:27 PM**

I say "gross'rees" and "Tyoos-day", shattering the 'Tuesday' dichotomy!

SignalHillHiker · #**834** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 10:28 PM**

You know, Tyoos is probably a better way to write it than Chews. There's definitely a T sound. Tshews.

Aylmer · #**835** Posted **Aug 26, 2014, 10:32 PM**

Well, there's Tyoos, then there's Chews. I've heard both, just like Trees/Chrees, Try/Chry and generally all words with 'Tr'.

kwoldtimer · #**836** Posted **Aug 27, 2014, 12:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by 1overcosc

I say "growshrees", and so do most people I know in Eastern Ontario.

Or about Tuesday.
Toosday vs. Chewsday.
I say "Chewsday". For that, I'm rather unique in my social circles.

I say Tyousday. Chewsday sounds like somebody should have had speech therapy as a youngster. Sorry.

Acajack · #**837** Posted **Aug 27, 2014, 2:19 AM**

I've said it before here but I can't stand feb-ree for the second month of the year.

Even though saying it the right way is one of the only words in English my francophone mouth has difficult with.

vid · #**838** Posted **Aug 27, 2014, 2:25 AM**

Even Anglophones can't pronounce February right. I see is spelled "Feburary" a lot. It's a good thing it's a short month, we'd probably go insane if we had to pronounce 31 days of it.

Razor · #**839** Posted **Aug 27, 2014, 3:02 AM**

^ Hey vid..How about native Cree speaking English accent..That one is unique

kwoldtimer · #**840** Posted **Aug 27, 2014, 3:21 AM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I've said it before here but I can't stand feb-ree for the second month of the year.

Even though saying it the right way is one of the only words in English my francophone mouth has difficult with.

FEB-roo-airy.