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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
I never really thought about my accent until I moved to America.
Now people comment on my Canadian accent on an almost daily basis. It's not just the accent, I think Canadians often use different words altogether.
How do you pronounce these words? Please excuse my bad phonetics. I grew up in Calgary and I use all of the alternatives listed on the right (zed, bayg, marks, soary, drawma, supper, pop, chocolate bar).
-For the letter "Z", do you say "Zee" or "Zed?"
-For the word "bag", do you say "Bahg" or "Bayg"? (This is by far the biggest one, as it affects the pronunciation of words like dragon, wagon, flag, leg, etc)
-For school, do you say "grades" or "marks"?
-For "sorry", do you say "sawry" or "soary"?
-For "drama", do you say "drahma" or "drawma"?
-Do you say "dinner" or "supper"?
-Do you say "coke", "soda", or "pop"?
-Do you say "candy bar" or "chocolate bar"?
And I refuse to believe that Canadians say "about" different. Many of the Torontonians I've met seem to take the American version of the words listed above. But it seems like Calgarians are a lot more likely to use the Canadian alternatives.
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- Zed. French influence.
- Bayg. Only people who I've heard say "Bog" are Aussies.
- Grades. I only hear marks in British colonies.
- Soary. But I do also say sawwies as a joke.
- Who the hell says draw ma? Siblings to artist siblings about getting their mother a drawn portrait?
- I use both dinner and supper. Afternoon meals are known as dunch.
- Pop.
- Chocolate bar.
- Aboot is like taking something a redneck says in the USA and thinking the rest of Canada says it that way.