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Originally Posted by evman150
Chat is pronounced "sha(t)".
And saying it "expresso" would just be flat out wrong. There is no x, so I don't see how that example in substantive in the slightest.
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I don't know why so many people say expresso too, but it is incredibly common amongst Canadians despite there being no x in the spelling... exception being french speakers, who tend to get that right. That's why I used that as an example. Saying words clearly wrong. Just like saying Italian like Ireland is clearly wrong, and saying pasta with the same A sound as Airdrie is also inproper. Its päs
′tə (for you JohnnyB, IPA font)
Thank you for proving my point, chat is pronounced like that, except the A is pronounced with the "ah" sound, not the "ey" sound.
You're right JohnnyB, we probably do sound dumb spelling phoenetically without the IPA fonts, but I'm too lazy to do it properly... its pretty obvious what we mean... and this is a hockey forum, not a university paper.
Either way, this isn't going anywhere. Evman thinks we all talk "Canadian" and we're all ignorant and don't know what we think we say, and I think that "Canadian" is way too broad, and while most of us use Canadian-isms like chesterfield and toque, our pronounciations are not all the same, and its not unusual for most of us to either be accentless neutrals or have a different "American" accent, due to media and movies. It seems to have degenerated into debating how things are supposed to be spoken.