I mentioned in twitter that I start to speak more “Canadian” when I am home. Once upon a time I didn’t think we had an accent, but the longer I live away (and the more my husband snickers at me) the more I do hear it. My family speaks with a much more clipped, precise pronunciation than I am used to in MA. (And before you ask – no, we do not live near Boston, so I am talking about the typical north-east accent, not the highly foreign Boston accent!) It makes me smile to hear everyone talk “normally.”<\/p>\n
Realize and paralyze are spelled with Z, not S.<\/p>\n
And it’s ZED, not ZEE.<\/p>\n
Travelled has two Ls. Which I didn’t realize is actually Canadian – I have been getting confused for the last 5 years because my spell-checkers keep correcting me, but I KNEW it looked right to me!<\/p>\n
Words like mobile, fragile are pronounced MO-bile, not MO-ble. (The “i” sound is very present.)<\/p>\n
Vase sounds like “vayse,” not “vahs.”<\/p>\n
Again and Against sound like “gain,” not “gen.”<\/p>\n
Decal is prounced “Deckle,” not “DEE-cal.” (Say this one out loud to an American and they have NO IDEA what you are talking about.)<\/p>\n
We call it Grade One, Grade Two. (Not First Grade, etc.)<\/p>\n
We commonly call it a chesterfield, as well as a couch.<\/p>\n
Washroom is the formal term for a bathroom. (I said this once in a public place in MA when I was searching, and the woman said, “A what??”)<\/p>\n
My winter hat is a touque.<\/p>\n
… And I could go on. I just like to sit and listen to people talk, it makes me smile!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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