Oui, mais tu peut essayer avec pas un... je ne sais pas comment dire en francais... vocabulary. Tu peut comprends tout que j'ecrit ici, oui? Avec les mistakes et anglais?
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Merci beaucoup! But you see, it's only that confusing for us. We can still understand perfectly what he means. It's just... he can only speak in a shallow way, and he takes forever.
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Interestingly enough, although not from there, Pauline Marois also lived in the West Island for many decades, although she moved to a condo in Old Montreal a year or two ago.
Neither here nor there, really, but I find Kathleen Wynne speaks halting but credible French (with a heavy Anglo accent). Certainly better than if she had just Ontario high school French.
I say zed...and I actually notice when people say zee. Sounds silly to me for some reason, except in the alphabet song where zed is just so sadly awkward.
This is probably the weirdest thing I've ever had a preference on... but I prefer zed. It implies closure, period, the end, final. It's a perfect way to say the last letter of our alphabet.
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Do any of you actually say zed? It's zee to me. And I've never heard zed spoken before. Not that I asked people to say the alphabet on the mainland.
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This is extremely surprising as Newfoundland is generally the biggest place for Britishisms in Canada by far. Stuff like saying tins for cans is much more common in Nfld.
Are you sure it's not just you?
I'd be very surprised if people in southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC still say zed quite predominantly (as they do) and Newfoundlanders say zee.
For me it's always zed. I went to English school a lot and grew up in a number of provinces in central and eastern Canada.
The vast majority of English-speaking Canadians seem to say zed except maybe for Anglo-Quebecers and people in places like Windsor and Niagara Falls. And even in the latter two places zed and zee duke it out.
Anglo-Quebecers seem to say zee more given that there seems to be a need to distinguish English from French. In French it's zed too. So it registers in people's minds that if it's zed in French it's gotta be something different in English. Hence the use of zee. Francophones in Quebec who learn English also tend to use zee. I suspect that lio says zee. I'll have to check with my kids but I am pretty sure I have heard them say zee.
You also get this in spelling in Quebec where center is often used in English as opposed to centre which is the official Canadian spelling as well. Centre is assumed to be French and so people think in English it has to be different. Hence center.
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