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evman150 · 03-31-2008, 03:40 AM

The Canadian "CBC" way is to say it "shed".

This, in my opinion, is antiquated Canadian English, in the same way as serviette, chips etc. They are things my parents and their generation say, but not me and my generation. This is just the Americanization of the language. It is hard not to be Americanized with so much of television being American. You see it more and more in younger people, the phasing out of the Canadian accent. "About" is still alive and well, but "sorry" gets mispronounced by my generation all the time. Same with "tomorrow". Things like "pasta" are still being said "correctly" though (correctly when it comes to Canadian English). Even "drama" is pronounced the Canadian way a good portion of the time.

03-31-2008, 03:40 AM	#98
evman150 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Richmond, BC Exp:	The Canadian "CBC" way is to say it "shed". This, in my opinion, is antiquated Canadian English, in the same way as serviette, chips etc. They are things my parents and their generation say, but not me and my generation. This is just the Americanization of the language. It is hard not to be Americanized with so much of television being American. You see it more and more in younger people, the phasing out of the Canadian accent. "About" is still alive and well, but "sorry" gets mispronounced by my generation all the time. Same with "tomorrow". Things like "pasta" are still being said "correctly" though (correctly when it comes to Canadian English). Even "drama" is pronounced the Canadian way a good portion of the time. __________________ "For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan Freedom consonant with responsibility.