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Originally Posted by le calmar
You notice the “eur” thing in the Bois-Francs region of Quebec (Victoriaville area). Hamburger is pronounced “hamburg-eur”, Not sure how it goes from there, and if it’s a constant thing all the way to Quebec City and Saguenay or if the distribution is rather uneven, but it is clearly a thing in that area and I believe as far south as Asbestos. However go south of Asbestos and it’s pronounced “hamburger”. It’s also pronounced “hamburger” in all of SW Quebec.
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I was just gonna say that the "eur" sound for the English "er" ending is regionally limited in Quebec.
As you say the more SW you get in Quebec, the more francophones will be used to pronouncing the "er" the English way. Or at least not with a very French-sounding "eur".
Though often it's not quite a perfect English-sounding "er", and even in Gatineau it often comes out sounding closer to "eux" than a true anglo "er".
So with Gatinois garage guys (a garage is the best place in the world for any language's slang) who are using anglicisms "wiper" sounds like "wye-peux", and "tire" sounds like "tye-eux".