THE FINAL SHOWDOWN: American English vs Canadian English

[TheRocket]

LIQUOR AND WHOREEEEEES LIQUOR AND WHORRRRRRRRRRES.

[Metcarfre]

CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALONEY AND LIQUOR AND WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRES!

[Deedles]

I personally don't care if the word pasta is pronounced "right", all I care about is that the pasta is cooked right!

Seriously though. The part of sweden that I live in have a kind of farmerish accent and they pronounce the Rs very heavily. Meanwhile when I was a kid I had problems pronouncing Rs and my father is from a part of Sweden (that is a neighbouring region to Skåne, which is where I live.) where they barely pronounce the Rs I don't pronounce my Rs as much as people around me. No ones told me that I'm pronouncing anything wrong for that, it's just that the circumstances from when I was growing up, along with the influence of a parent, made me end up talking the way that I do.

My pronounciation of 'party' really does sound like 'pahty'.

[Vigafre]

I talk like a black person. Dialect, not tonality.

[TheRocket]

CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALONEY AND LIQUOR AND WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRES!

I WENT DOWN DRINKIN' AT THE LEGION!

[Tapir12]

I say is Paasta rather than Pawsta as well.

Plus I recently noticed that my friend from the Yukon and her whole family say taco like "tAAco" whereas I say it "tAWco". So we have get another foreign food naming dilemma!

I've run across some interesting pronunciation differences elsewhere as well. I call our front teeth incisors (In-Sy-Zors) but Kenyans pronounce it "In-Scissors". Maybe that's closer to the British?

[Metcarfre]

CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALONEY AND LIQUOR AND WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRES!

I WENT DOWN DRINKIN' AT THE LEGION!

I MET A GIRL SHE WAS NICE
SHE WAS PRETTY AND PLEASIIIIIING

[TheRocket]

CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALONEY AND LIQUOR AND WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRES!

I WENT DOWN DRINKIN' AT THE LEGION!

I MET A GIRL SHE WAS NICE
SHE WAS PRETTY AND PLEASIIIIIING

SHE SAID " HEY BOY, WE SHOULD DO SOME MARRYIN'"

[TheRocket]

I say is Paasta rather than Pawsta as well.

Plus I recently noticed that my friend from the Yukon and her whole family say taco like "tAAco" whereas I say it "tAWco". So we have get another foreign food naming dilemma!

I've run across some interesting pronunciation differences elsewhere as well. I call our front teeth incisors (In-Sy-Zors) but Kenyans pronounce it "In-Scissors". Maybe that's closer to the British?

The site I posted has a bunch of words that Canadians and americans say with different (a) sounds. To name a few..
panorama
pyjamas
plaza
taco
Slavic
macho
llama
pasta
lava
drama

[Metcarfre]

CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALONEY AND LIQUOR AND WHOOOOOOOOOOOORRES!

I WENT DOWN DRINKIN' AT THE LEGION!

I MET A GIRL SHE WAS NICE
SHE WAS PRETTY AND PLEASIIIIIING

SHE SAID " HEY BOY, WE SHOULD DO SOME MARRYIN'"

I SAID SURE BUT BEFORE WE DO
THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

[TheRocket]

THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW

I LIKE... LIQUOR AND WHORES! LIQUOR AND WHORES! CIG'RETTES AND DOPE AND MUSTARD AND BALOGNA! LIQUOR AND WHOREEEEEEEEES!

[iamafish]

Hey, Imafish, it IS a topic for discussion obviously - since we are discussing it. P.S gtfo of my thread.

and that fact is utterly and incredibly ridiculous

[Mad Madam Mimm]

Americans have a habit of pronouncing things oddly. Like they pronounce "football" as "soccer" and "biscuits" as "cookies". Cray colonials
[/flameflameflame]

Seriously though, it's ridiculous how bent out of shape people get about accents and dialects. Did you know that 40 or so years ago, the BBC were reluctant to hire anyone who didn' speak with Recieved Pronunciation? True. I think it's silly, and any time someone corrects my pronunciation on any words, I tend to say "oh rhee-alley? Iv on-lie eve-r seen it w-ritt-in d-oh-wn"

[Master Gunner]

Interestingly, apparently when I'm drinking, my voice gets quite close to Received Pronunciation. Then I drink more and I sound like a Glaswegian, which at least makes sense.

[Darkobra]

Interestingly, apparently when I'm drinking, my voice gets quite close to Received Pronunciation. Then I drink more and I sound like a Glaswegian, which at least makes sense.

HELL YEAH! BOOZE BUDDY!

[Timelady]

Sadly, for some reason I cannot open the Quicktime sounds on the Canadian English page. I did find http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-142DC7So&feature=related if anyone's having the same trouble.

Around where I live, it's usually pronounced pah-stah. Or pah-ster, more likely, what with our habit of misplacing r's. In fact, I'm even having a little trouble with the concept of PAA-sta. I don't think we use that form of A a lot. I know the word "can't" comes out kind of...rudely...for a lot of people

[TheRocket]

Timelady, your link was broken. BUT I found THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JRzjvFa_lc

THAT is how I say PAAAAAAASTA.

And it provided some good comic relief. OBAMA! FOX NEWS!

But back to the point... according to Wraith I am MISPRONOUNCING the word. And he REFUSES to acknowledge that is not a mispronunciation, but a regional/dialect difference.

Also, I still have never seen milk in a bag, damnit.

[Metcarfre]

Really? Wraith? Wow.

[TheRocket]

I know, it's a shock. I also know we have english nazis on the forum, and was hoping to be provided with another way of explaining my point. Which has been most successful.. ish. He still won't listen.

[JustAName]

I'm all for proper grammar. I don't give a damn about pronunciation, though, unless it is clearly wrong, and not just regionally different.

[Mister Fiend]

Okay you swine, Pasta is pronounced STUH-AYY-KUH.

[TheRocket]

I don't give a damn about pronunciation, though, unless it is clearly wrong, and not just regionally different.

That is how I feel as well. Wraith says saying pasta the way I do is on the same level as saying GAlapano for jalepeno. Even though you are clearly replacing an (h) sound for a (JA/GA) sound.

[TheRocket]

Okay you swine, Pasta is pronounced STUH-AYY-KUH.

You owe me a Moose Juice for this, you fiend!

[Drinnik]

The one that gets me is fillet. Americans pronounce it "fill-ay," the British pronounce it "fill-it." The word is not a French derieved word, so the T should be pronounced.

Also, it means to get that cut of meat, Americans "fill-ay-tuh-ed" the meat.

I bet they do...

[Vigafre]

Fill-ay-tuh-ed? Don't you mean "Fill-ay-ed"?