Oh yeah, pop/soda/soda pop. Here in Quebec, it's "soft drink".
In Newfoundland someone acting stupid is "stun". I use that on occasion.
In Newfoundland someone acting stupid is "stun". I use that on occasion.
Contrary to what most American's believe, Canadians don't say "aboot". We do say "eh?"....
It's your ears BT.i have to disagree about the aboot, rock. for most canadians that i know (including everyone i work with in technical support the leitch corp. in t'ronto, and most hockey players i've met), there's definitely a change in the "ow" sound in words like out and about to sound more like "oot".
It's your ears BT.
We may say the "ow" sound slightly differently than you do, but it ain't "oot". That's a fake Scots accent.
..."Want a Timmies? Double double?"...
Want a Tim Horton's coffee? Two cream and two sugar?Huh??
I can just hear it.BT's ears have been going on him for years. He's been bugging me with the oot thing since the beginning. LOL! Definitely a regional thing. Prairie folks sound like midwesterners.
BT, you ought to hear some of my Newfie buddies. Lawd tunderring Jaysus!
I've been racking my brain to come up with something that is regional here and I can't do it. The only thing I can come up with is "Want a Timmies? Double double?" and that is likely a Canadianism not an Edmontonism.
I've heard "aboot" many times from my Canadian friends. It may be exaggerated on TV, but I've heard it in person many times.
If your ears are that good, then you know that we don't say it the same way as you guys do, but it doesn't sound like "boot".thanks, bakechef.
it's not me, i swear. the oot is slight, but it's there in 75% of all of the canadians that i've ever met, coast to coast. it's similar to the slight accent, especially pronouncing some "o"s, in south jersey/philadelphia.
if anything, hearing so many different accents on a daily basis here makes my ears well tuned. i can differentiate a northern irish accent from a southern one, especially a "dub 4", as well as differentiate a northern indian versus a southern indian accent, and even bengali.
when we were in florida a few weeks ago i mentioned to my wife that it was weird to hear so many cuban accents when i'm so used to hearing puerto rican and dominican all the time at home.
Want a Tim Horton's coffee? Two cream and two sugar?
taxlady said:If your ears are that good, then you know that we don't say it the same way as you guys do, but it doesn't sound like "boot".
Maybe Yanks say boot differently than we do.As I said, it's exaggerated on TV, but in real life, I can hear it, just more subtle. When you are surrounded by your native accent, I think that the subtleties of the accent get lost to your ear.
Mainers have a very strong distinct accent, to me it didn't sound strange at all growing up there, but now that I have been away for so long, I can definitely hear it, especially the way that they stretch out the letter "O", mention it to a Mainer, and they will have no idea what you are talking about.
Maybe Yanks say boot differently than we do.
When I first came to Canada, I heard about the supposed "aboot", but I couldn't hear that, even when I tried.