you can clearly tell that the Ontario recruits are from large cities of the south. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor etc. The small towns are more Scottish, British, Irish and classically or stereotypically Canadian as it were.
When I listen to local Canadian radio and TV, the accent is much stronger than what I hear in this video. I live across the border from Northern Ontario.
Skogen Fjær The current generations of Canadians (including me) have nothing to do weird brits or scotish 🤮🤮....you must be talking current white refugees from britain 😆 who arrived here.
@@nochatter7134 No, he's talking about the typical rural Ontarian accent. As he said. You're the one who clearly doesn't know what you're talking about.
I'm from the U.S. and I'm a little obsessed with Canada. I try to figure out what area of the country someone is from when I watch shows and movies with Canadian actors, so this is really cool to watch!
so interesting! I'm Scottish, I couldn't hear much of a Scottish influence on those from the far Eastern areas, however the Irish twang in their accents was so clear and strong, I find that amazing! Looking forward to part 2.
A Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfie) accent is virtually indistinguishable from an Irish accent. That's because the inhabitants of that province came from Waterford, Ireland.
i find the differences between all canadian accents extremely minute, however east vs west is the most clear difference. I'm from BC however, and once I was in Europe I was talking to some people and I knew they were from BC from the moment I started talking to them, it was the strangest thing I have ever experienced.
they sound similar because your assume they do. so your brain kinda just interprets it as that. once you go a while without hearing it, the differences are night and day.
I went into a gas station in Pennsylvania, asked for a map and a guy walked over and handed me a mop. I left there going "map, mop, mahp, mawp, meeyap..".
I've been away from Canada for many years and I don't know when I'll be able to return. I miss my adopted country so much - this accent sampler is like listening to unknown friends far away .... I love it!! thanks for posting
I must say. Coming from ontario, if you go to Toronto, people speak very differently than in the north. In northern Ontario it's almost like an eastern accent
There is a clear difference between northern and southern Ontario accents. I live in northern Ontario and, occassionally, I'll meet someone here from southern Ontario because of their distinct accent.
I wish I was Canadian cause their accents are awesome.(I'm from New York; Long Island) Update; now I don’t think their accents are any different from ours except for the way they say things like sorry and about and I’m glad to be an American even though I really love Canada too but French Canadian is honestly so pretty, which is about it. My two cents
The accent changes within the provinces, in Alberta people from fort mcmurray, Edmonton, and Calgary will all have different accents, and small town people will also have a slightly different accent, and older people will also have different accents
If anyone doubted the Scottish influence on Canada,just look at the fellow from the enclave region. He could be straight out of a porridge or irn-bru advert.
I live in Upper Michigan, also known as the Upper Peninsula or UP. Our speech has been somewhat affected by the Canadian accent of Northern Ontario. I and most of my neighbors don’t raise out and about, (tho a few do) but we do raise light and bite, which was not mentioned in this video but is also part of Canadian raising. So the I of light and bite is distinctly raised and shortened as compared with the I of lied and bide. Here we also use “eh” which often gets us accused by other Americans of being Canadian. Parts of the UP have a regional accent which is affected by a substantial number of people of Finnish ancestry, as well as the Canadian effect. An old (1980s) marketing slogan by the Michigan tourism promotion program was “Say yes to Michigan!” But up here we said “Say yah to da UP, eh!”
My family is from Southern Michigan and I do definitely notice similarities but also very specific differences. The ones that stand out to me are the short "a" and "o" vowels. "Can - have - pal - bat - pan" in South Michigan is more of a diphthong (kee-an/ he-av / pe-al / be-at) etc. Short o in "pot - got - job - boss" is more like a standard short a (pat - gat - jab - bass)" These are totally absent from Canadian. I dont know about North Michigan, but I do hear it around the midwest: Around Chicago for sure, but also in Wisconsin accents. For the rest, I do find their long o's and ou's are more similar to Canada.
Idk but I’m a maritimer too ;)) my fav part of Canada. Pei is kind of the best place in the world. Love it I wish I lived there I live an hour or so away though! :))
The way the older woman from Montreal says "marching band" and "mouthed wait" reveals something very distinctive to that city with NGs, Ds and Ts. That unique French/Italian/Yiddish/Canadian English blend is unlike any other English accent in the world.
I really love the girl from p.e.i. with the curly green hair’s accent. I’m albertan and I’ve worked with lots of people from the east coast and I’ve never heard such a clear irish influence on the dialect. My sister lived in Dublin for 3 years working as a speech therapist and came back sounding a lot like this lol.
You should do a follow up video with Canadians pronouncing the distinctive words you pronounce differently from Americans such as: pasta, again, negotiations, sorry, etc.
I love this! The readings by all the various speakers really show the variation in Canadian ways of speaking - and I particularly like how you use the map to visualize the regions where each speech pattern is typical. As the descendant of immigrants who arrived in (mainly) Quebec from (mainly) Ireland around (mainly) 1810, and some of whom made their way westward, I also want to suggest there is more regional variation and specialization in B.C. than your analysis reflects, & I hope that’s a project you or one of your colleagues might sometime take on. For just one example, a significant proportion of people in Victoria speak very clipped proper Britishy....
I was born and raised in Toronto (Chrono, lol) and I've noticed that I monophthongize a lot of vowels depending on the placement (usually at the end of a word boundary, sometimes at the end of a syllable boundary). So I don't say the word "way" as /weɪ/, I say it more like /we/. Likewise, the word "okay" is /oke/ as opposed to /oʊkeɪ/. And although most of my o's are diphthongs in words like "sorry" /soʊri/, I would say my home city's name as /tʃrɑno/ as opposed to /tʃrɑnoʊ/. Same goes for the words "bro" /bro/ and "no" /no/. I also find that before /g/ my /æ/ sometimes becomes indistinguishable from /ɛ/ which seems to be a prominent feature for most Ontario speakers anyway. I live in Ottawa now for school but I found the monophthong thing tends to set me apart from Ottawanians - well that and they tend to front their /a/ before /r/s more than I do, e.g. they say something akin to /gærbɪdʒ/ for "garbage".
Similar to which other accent? Everywhere else in Canada? When talking about Regional accents, it's all about slight differences, for the most part, not the bigger differences you see in the states or UK. The differences between BC and the rest of the prairies are probably only noticeable to linguists, from what I gather.
Southwest BC from Kamloops & Kelowna towards Vancouver/Victoria have a slightly different accent from the Prairies. The about is more like 'abowt' vs the prairie 'aboat' or Ontarian 'abeaut'. The 'a' sound before n/ng/m is also a bit more American like cayn - tho not a s strong as in Ontario.
PrincessZoey97 - I always wondered which of us was saying 'Aboat' as I hardly ever heard it here in Ontario. I gather you are more likely to hear it as you go westward.
This is the best treatment I have seen & heard of regional Canadian variances. Most Canadian friends of mine deny that there are differences, but as an American I have long felt that predictable variances exist. Thanks for validating my theory, eh?
Yes there are rural accents, and some small enclaves like the Ottawa Valley. The Ontario Region mentioned by the linguistics professor covers the larger majority of Ontario.
Is Toledo Ontario considered part of Ottawa Valley? My family is from this region and I suffer from a slight Ottawa Valley accent. I tend to suppress the majority of it. lol
Yes, there are regional accents all over North America, which is why it's more accurate and useful to speak of the regional differences in North America than to speak of a Canadian accent and an American accent. There is North American English and its regional differences, but to speak of Canadian English or American English is not useful. There are fewer differences between American English and Canadian English than can be found in Canadian English. However, comparing Americans to Canadians is fair. Canadians are much nicer people. No one disputes that. The only question is why? I would like to see a treatise on that. Is it because there so many fewer Canadians? Is it because Canada has not yet been ruined by diversity to the extent that America has? Is it simply because of demographic differences? Hmm, Ive now interested myself, and I'm going to have to study this subject.
I was raised in an area with very minimal "accent" with regard to pronunciation and there such so many HUGE differences in those from Western Canada and the Western United States.
It definitely depends on your peer group as well as your family. My family are Maritimers, but I was born in Ontario so I have a mixture of Maritime and Ontario accents. Some things I say like a Maritimer and some I say like a Mainlander, it truly depends.
I live in Montreal. Anglophones (native english speakers) speak in an accent very similar to the standard American accent. The accent of the Jewish community members also have some elements of the New York accent.
American here. Agree with the oat and aboat for my western Canadian friends. I’ve never heard oot and aboot but yeah that’s the old stereotype. I am fascinated by accents so I really like this video.
I live in Ontario and I have had a friend for several years now on the internet, He if from England and after the amount of time speaking with him my mom has told me that I have been conveying my conversations like if I where British Without the ascent.
Accents vary greatly in rural areas. I'm from the Ottawa Valley and we have a distinct accent. I've been told those that know can identify the accent across the country. City folk all kind of sound like Americans to me.
English is my second language and I can't tell the difference at all, haha. I've studied English on a university level and speak General American but I just can't hear it. I can't even tell the difference between Canadian and General American. In GTA V, Trevor is really upset that people hear that his accent is Canadian. I was really surprised :'D
@@heronimousbrapson863 Are you kidding? I’m American and I can easily tell the difference between Australian and New Zealand accents. I can identify them in just a few words, usually. Especially when I hear that change of e to i in certain words which is a characteristic of NZ English.
Ethan Lamoureux Get a New Zealander to say the phrase “This fish is a bit wet” and you’ll hear the difference from Australian. You will hear something that sounds more like “Thus fush is a bet wit”.
@@happyspaceinvader508 That's kind of how I try to help other people understand the difference between accents from New Zealand and Australia. I'm from the U.S., but I'm really a big fan of language and accents. Most folks here can't seem to hear the difference in accents. People won't even admit that there are a ton of different accents across our own country, so it's not surprising.
I also noticed that a lot of people from central British Columbia (Kelowna, Kamploops, Revelstoke, etc.) had a much more distinct accent compared to people in the Alberta Plains, with a lot more "aboots" a "oots." I heard sorry pronounced "sore-rey" often enough that it was a shock to hear it "sahr-ry". I even picked it up and still use the pronunciation 13 years after moving back to the US.
Wow, I'm surprised how similar Alberta(where i was born), to BC, and also even all the way to Manitoba! Also even the northern territories sounded so much like alberta/bc/sask/man!
A lot of what makes a Canadian accent is definitely regional. But you have to remember accents in Canada can follow rural/urban patterns throughout the country, not to mention how accents in general are individual (something I noticed a lot of in this video). Of course there are similarities! But (to me!) someone from Vancouver sounds more similar to someone from Seattle than they would to someone from Winnipeg or Toronto, even. Ontario, the Maritimes, and rural Canadian accents are what sound most stereotypically "Canadian" to my ears. That said, the differences are probably so subtle to non-Canadians, haha.
This was great, eh! Canadian expatriate here. Well past 50 and I'm still trying to figure oot what accent I have. We left Toronto for Houston (!) when I was six years old, so to my southern friends I sound Canadian and to my northern friends I sound Texan. The OU diphthong has always been my nemesis. I literally practiced in front of a mirror trying to learn the flat Texan ahhhw for our first year there and never did get the hang of it. Americans always think that the Canadian "ou" is just a long "u" like "boot", but it's so much richer. We put equal emphasis on each half of the sound: I don't say "I'm going oot"; I say "I'm going uh-oot". Americans just aren't used to hearing the "u" part emphasized so much, so that's all they notice. Also: Never used "eh" much until we moved to the States and I wanted to have an anchor to my heritage. At first I used it ironically, but now it seems like a normal way to emphasize or affirm something. No weirder than adding "... right?" or "... isn't it?" or, Henry Higgins help us all, "... you know?"
This is cool. I'm a lifelong Ontarian, and I wouldn't think most of the speakers from other provinces sound "accented" if I heard them...but when I hear the Ontario speakers, they do sound particularly "like home" to me. And I can't put my finger on why. Interesting how accent differences can come in all degrees, some obvious and some barely perceptible.
I've always spelt the Ontario raising as "eu(w)t and abeu(w)t" when I find myself needing to write the difference. The w is my Dutch influenced way to distinguish -eu- from other sounds using the spelling as you might find in French or German.
Try reading this sentence aloud. “Erin bought a beautiful urn for her uncle Aaron.” As a British-born, Canadian-raised Ontarian, I would say that most people I know pronounce “Erin”, “Aaron” and “urn” almost identically to my ear. Even after 50 years here, I still do differentiate the three vowels before the “r”.
Living in both Northern British Columbia and in Central Alberta, I heard "Eh" all the time, but what I noticed was that more of the older generations would say "eh", while the younger generations would say "hey". For my fellow Americans confused about the proper usage of hey or eh, just think of any time you would say "huh", for example, "that was a pretty cool movie, huh?" Replace "Huh" with "eh/hey" and you've got it down.
I would like to know some theories as to why Canada with such small population separated by large distances has such a homogeneous accent, but the England with a large population so close together have such distinctive regional accents. You would think more interaction between the accents would lead to more convergence and isolation would lead to divergence.
Nova Scotia here. Is it odd Newfoundland and PEI are the only accents that sounded odd to me? Interesting compilation... pretty dark poem there though...
+Cole Pram It is not odd at all. Our regional differences are small, but noticeable. Pay attention to how Canadians pronounce words with 'ar' like car or park, and how they pronounce words like bag, and words like can, band. You will hear some slight differences, but they are there.
***** I just always thought it was odd that considering how close I am to Newfoundland, I notice the Newfoundland accent much more than say a prairies accent, and Cape Breton (part of Nova Scotia for those not in the know). They're off the chart, especially after you get them drinking ^_^, it feels like Cape Breton's accent is much closer to Newfoundland's accent than it is to Nova Scotia's.
+Cole Pram And you would be right. Well I'm just a filmmaker but I've read the research :) It's because of the different levels of isolation of the scottish/irish immigrant population at the time, allowing Newfoundland/Cape Breton/PEI to retain more of their unique accent. The prairies sound very close to Ontario due to migration and settlement patterns. The Ontario region was settled first and then expanded west taking the accent with them. I'll be touching on this topic in Part 2
In Canada's case, it's a mix of English settlers, Loyalists from the 13 colonies in the United States who developed a separate accent from the British, Scottish and Irish settlers more predominantly in the East, and the French in Quebec of course.
Just because the traditional dialect characteristics are dying out doesn't mean that the dialects in the US aren't diverging. They're simply being replaced with new characteristics.
+Spencer O'Dowd Ya I imagine that's the case. An example of that is what is occurring in parts of Canada, and separate unrelated parts of the US - the dress vowel examples sound like drass, what some nickname the 'valley girl' accent.
Yep, that happens in both the Canadian Vowel Shift and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift. I was just talking to a friend of mine who's an educated and urban young person from New York (I'm from Boston of a similar background) and noticed subtle but notable speech differences between the two of us. We in New England have the cot/caught merger as well for example.
I would have figured that Boston and New York differ, but not having been in Boston, does the accent differ on socio-economic terms? Like in my video, explaining the fronting of /ahr/ with the east coast having the most fronting. I think Boston is an example of extreme backing of /ahr/ with the whole 'park the car in Harvard yard'.
Funny, I grew up in Ontario and the Ontario one sounds normal to me, though so does the BC one, as maybe because I've lived in BC now for 7 years.. Alberta one was second most normal and those east coasters might as well be scottish/irish sounding..
I find that Canadian hockey players have the heaviest accents. I notice this as I am a Canadian that plays hockey. None of the people in this video looked like they play hockey or are from small towns. I think that if u get hockey players and people from small towns in Canada, you’ll get heavier accents. I’ve visited small towns and you hear it. That being said, I definitely notice my own accent when I go to the u.s. on vacation
TheSliderBy I believe it's the mennonites who speak low German. The Hutterites speak a High German dialect, which I understand is similar to the German dialect in Carinthia in Austria. I've heard that German tourists can easily converse with Hutterites in their own language.
As an Pacific Northwest American, there are reasons why I think "eh?" and "sorry" are great Canadian stereotypes. To me its not a negative thing at all. when it comes to "eh?" in the US, I never hear this word spoken at all. obviously I know Canadians dont used it in every sentence but, its the difference of not using it at all in the US, and just the times when i do hear it.. im just thinking oh hey im in Canada! ha. Also I think of "sorry" because the amount that its used compared to in the US. I visit Vancouver alot, and i always notice even the bus will say, Sorry, out of service. unlike Seattle its just. out of service. Americans are just colder it seems. it of course depends on the region in the US to though.
Canadian here...can't argue with scholar facts. I hate all videos of people pretending to be expert... Refreshing and accurate... I traveled extensively throughout all provinces.
As a Utahn, I found none of these particularly different than my own accent, but a few leaned toward a Scottish brogue. Utah is mostly descendants of British folks, with a smattering of Nordic and German. And of late, our Hispanic and other friends!
Differences also between Northern-Ontario, Eastern-Ontario and other parts of Ontario. Differences as well between Montreal-English and other parts of Quebec, (the townships, North-Shore, etc).
The more northern/rural/small-town you go in Ontario, the more people sound like they’re from the prairies (Albertan accent is the most exaggerated of these)
I'm born and raised in Toronto and I definitely say it the same as 7:27 (Ontario). Your own way of saying it might be the same as the girl from Montreal, but you probably hear both in conversation and don't notice.
The difference between the Canadian accent and the United States accent is subtle, and people whose first language is not English would have trouble telling them apart. I probably heard the most difference when I was up in New Brunswick some years back. I was born in Detroit which is right on the Canadian border so things Canadian don't seem all that different to me although when I am in Canada I am aware that I'm in a different country. But I can't really put it into words how they're different. I live in south Texas now and I have been asked if I was Canadian.
That's really cool! I wish I was mistaken for Canadian down here. I'm a Texan, but I'm told I have a northern accent (kinda neutral sounding, similar to accents you'd hear in ontario but without the sore-y and different abouts/outs/South and no rhotic r) but when I'm around my family who have a much more prominent southern US accent I adopt it for a period of time. It's also true that if I spend time around Canadians I'll end up adopting their accent whichever that one may be.
Another great topic to discuss would be the caught-cot pronunciation in Canadian English. In general, the short *'o'* in Canadian English (at least the way I hear it) falls somewhere between British and American pronunciations in terms of openness. In British English, *cot* is very labialized (lips rounded); in Canadian English, the lips are a little less rounded, but still rounded; while in American English, *cot* is very open, with lips less tense and even less rounded. This is my observation, though I have yet to find a detailed video on the subject.
Just an excellent description of Canadian English across the land. I can verify most, & learned a few new things- e.g Montrealers whose mother tongue is English don't say 'sorey' 'abeaut' or 'cayn' like southern Ontarians or Nova Scotians. The Celtic type of accent in PEI is also wonderful to hear existing.
I've taken classical roots of English at University & learning Spanish but mostly just a fascination with accents. Currently studying the accents of the British Isles & social perceptions based on accents. Incredible the attributes assigned to a person from just their accent.
From Ontario, I hear 'eh?'' used as a confirmation when we mean 'right?'. Its used as a question, not a random word, so it is always elevated at the end of the sentence, especially used in the fast way Ontarians speak. I have never heard someone say 'around the corner eh' as a statement. More likely to hear it as a question, 'just going around the corner eh?'
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born and raised in ontario and i seemed to have diverged my accent from the regional province accent. i dont know what my accent is or where its from but i developed it. my long 'i's sound like 'oi' and i say most of my short 'a' sound like people in the eastern canada's car. 'ker' (?).
I've said it to a few people now....in Ontario we don't say aboot or aboat. It's more like the bow of the boat. You want to talk about a bow and not the stern of a boat. Don't start talking about a boot, leave them in the closet with the shoes.
oot and aboot. the only time I hear people do the "oo" is when they mock people who think we say that. I find "at all" is pronounced weird where I'm from. it sounds like "a tall".
My personal observation is that the difference (when there is one) between Canadian and American "about" is an extra, tiny little "oo" sound. But the "oo" is not after the b (i.e. not aboot), it's before the "t". So the word can start out as abou_ but what makes it Canadian is what happens after that. If it goes straight to the "t" it sounds American to an American. If that little "oo" slips in before the "t" it sounds Canadian and can give the impression of sounding like "aboot" because the unusualness of that extra "oo" sound sticks out for us. So even if you think you're saying "about" you might possibly be saying abou-oo-t (a-bow-oo-t, where bow rhymes with cow and oo is the vowel in hoot) in our perception. If it's a stronger Canadian accent it can sound more like aboa-oo-t to us.
My Canadian sister now lives in the States, she says that now that she has been there 18 years she noticed how weird all Canadians say identical. We pronounce highly stress each symbol and highly define each symbol. And say I - dent - i - cle. We say it with such force it is like we are stressing the great significance that those things are I DENT I CLE. Maybe living in a country full of snow and taught as children that "no two snowflakes are alike" maybe when something is identical we think this is extremely important 🤣
I'm from the US and based on what I've seen and heard on TH-cam, very few Canadians say oot and aboot. The way most Canadians say out and about is more like oat and aboat, or midway between them and owt and abowt.
You have the "fronted r" thing in Western NY, where people from Rochester say the name of the city sort of like "Rahchestrr" compared to a more generic American English accent.
For me as a Canadian I do not have a strong accent. However strong accents exist and they're most prominent when the letter L and 'ou' sounds are spoken as well as the letter R sound.
As a Newfie who’s been over to pei, your not wrong, but I mean it’s still nowhere near how bad a Newfie accent often is. There’s like a slight Newfie accent but I can hear a tid bit more Irish then Newfie.
I know this is an old video and an excellent one too.. But an someone tell e what poem they used??? It's so beautiful but i can't find it anywhere online!
I am from Ontario and I couldn't here much change between them, Except the one from newfoundland, I would have thought he was UK like Scotland or Ireland.
Have visited Canada several times and spoke to many Canadians to whom I said "'your accent is so odd" to which they replied that it was my accent that was odd. Viva la difference
Venezuelan here, it's strange that I am very fixated with Appalachian, Brogue and Scottish English accents and at the same time feel an affinity with Newfoundland & Labrador region, I hadn't any idea of how similar the accents are, hahahaha.
I have a house in PEI and it's true that there is so much Scottish and Irish influence! I used to think that it was normal across the country but I went to Niagara falls one year and it was comparatively like a melting pot!
I struggles to hear the the sound differences (accents) across a lot of regions (I am from BC) however i do tend to notice the differences in how we construct our language (words we use, the meanings we sometimes associate with same words). Interesting video.
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Immigrant but live in the West Coast, wondered how other would enunciate and pronounce words based on other provinces. :D
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you can clearly tell that the Ontario recruits are from large cities of the south. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor etc. The small towns are more Scottish, British, Irish and classically or stereotypically Canadian as it were.
Agreed
Agrees I'm from a smaller city in southern Ontario. When I went to England they thought I was Irish.
When I listen to local Canadian radio and TV, the accent is much stronger than what I hear in this video. I live across the border from Northern Ontario.
Skogen Fjær The current generations of Canadians (including me) have nothing to do weird brits or scotish 🤮🤮....you must be talking current white refugees from britain 😆 who arrived here.
@@nochatter7134 No, he's talking about the typical rural Ontarian accent. As he said. You're the one who clearly doesn't know what you're talking about.
I don't know about anyone else, but I use "Eh" instead of the word "right". For example: "You're heading to the city tomorrow, eh?"
Yes, we use eh as a confirmation, although apparently it's falling out of use.
Jimiticus Huh, well I use it pretty often.
TheSliderBy Me too, maybe it's the younger generations
23 year old checking in, I think it's more of a rural thing, everyone here uses "eh?" constantly, but I never hear it in Toronto. Timmins, ON.
TheSliderBy I grew up in small town Alberta and I use "eh" in this way. It was and maybe still is used by those in my town. Often as "I know eh!"
I'm from the U.S. and I'm a little obsessed with Canada. I try to figure out what area of the country someone is from when I watch shows and movies with Canadian actors, so this is really cool to watch!
I once heard a Canadian couple in Williamsburg, Virginia looking at a windmill. The woman said to the man, "Holy cow, eh."
What a beautiful example of the various accents within Canada. Lovely work. Thank you.
so interesting! I'm Scottish, I couldn't hear much of a Scottish influence on those from the far Eastern areas, however the Irish twang in their accents was so clear and strong, I find that amazing! Looking forward to part 2.
Ya I definitely hear the Irish more, but it was Irish/Scottish from like 200 years ago so who knows!
A Newfoundland and Labrador (Newfie) accent is virtually indistinguishable from an Irish accent. That's because the inhabitants of that province came from Waterford, Ireland.
its because of the irish immigrants i forget what year it was but there was a war betwen us and the irish raiders who lived in america
lots of it is as i said from the irish raiders aswell
Some came from Waterford. Others didn't.
i find the differences between all canadian accents extremely minute, however east vs west is the most clear difference. I'm from BC however, and once I was in Europe I was talking to some people and I knew they were from BC from the moment I started talking to them, it was the strangest thing I have ever experienced.
they sound similar because your assume they do. so your brain kinda just interprets it as that. once you go a while without hearing it, the differences are night and day.
I went into a gas station in Pennsylvania, asked for a map and a guy walked over and handed me a mop. I left there going "map, mop, mahp, mawp, meeyap..".
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I've been away from Canada for many years and I don't know when I'll be able to return. I miss my adopted country so much - this accent sampler is like listening to unknown friends far away .... I love it!! thanks for posting
I hope you got to come back!
I must say. Coming from ontario, if you go to Toronto, people speak very differently than in the north. In northern Ontario it's almost like an eastern accent
We have this issue. I am from Wisconsin, went to Texas could hardly understand what they are saying.. English has alot of slang in it..
I honestly wouldn't agree im from Thunder Bay and it was pretty spot on.
@@hamtercattree I live near the Soo and I think the accent is much stronger over here.
I agree.
There is a clear difference between northern and southern Ontario accents. I live in northern Ontario and, occassionally, I'll meet someone here from southern Ontario because of their distinct accent.
I wish I was Canadian cause their accents are awesome.(I'm from New York; Long Island)
Update; now I don’t think their accents are any different from ours except for the way they say things like sorry and about and I’m glad to be an American even though I really love Canada too but French Canadian is honestly so pretty, which is about it. My two cents
Chrissy Brown I don't even hear an accent ahaha but then again I am Canadian lol
Morgan Mccann same lol
Chrissy Brown Glad i'm Canadian
It's that they're speaking English and you're from Long Island.
You're not alone
The accent changes within the provinces, in Alberta people from fort mcmurray, Edmonton, and Calgary will all have different accents, and small town people will also have a slightly different accent, and older people will also have different accents
If anyone doubted the Scottish influence on Canada,just look at the fellow from the enclave region. He could be straight out of a porridge or irn-bru advert.
More like irish too, tough :D
Like the word car is said almost like irish say it
I live in Canada and I don’t hear an accent to the way I speak but my cousin that lives in the U.S. says that I pronounce a lot of words differently.
As an Ontarioian I would like to add that where you were grew up in Ontario has a huge influence on your accent and your behaviour
I live in Upper Michigan, also known as the Upper Peninsula or UP. Our speech has been somewhat affected by the Canadian accent of Northern Ontario. I and most of my neighbors don’t raise out and about, (tho a few do) but we do raise light and bite, which was not mentioned in this video but is also part of Canadian raising. So the I of light and bite is distinctly raised and shortened as compared with the I of lied and bide.
Here we also use “eh” which often gets us accused by other Americans of being Canadian.
Parts of the UP have a regional accent which is affected by a substantial number of people of Finnish ancestry, as well as the Canadian effect.
An old (1980s) marketing slogan by the Michigan tourism promotion program was “Say yes to Michigan!” But up here we said “Say yah to da UP, eh!”
My family is from Southern Michigan and I do definitely notice similarities but also very specific differences. The ones that stand out to me are the short "a" and "o" vowels.
"Can - have - pal - bat - pan" in South Michigan is more of a diphthong (kee-an/ he-av / pe-al / be-at) etc.
Short o in "pot - got - job - boss" is more like a standard short a (pat - gat - jab - bass)"
These are totally absent from Canadian. I dont know about North Michigan, but I do hear it around the midwest: Around Chicago for sure, but also in Wisconsin accents. For the rest, I do find their long o's and ou's are more similar to Canada.
Us maritimers are probably to blame for the stereotypical accent lol eh?
Not exactly. Just maybe the coolest accent :)
=])) probably
I would never blame Maritimers, but rather people like Don Cherry!
I'm from Ottawa and work in Montreal.
you guys sound definately sound bit celtic
Idk but I’m a maritimer too ;)) my fav part of Canada. Pei is kind of the best place in the world. Love it I wish I lived there I live an hour or so away though! :))
The way the older woman from Montreal says "marching band" and "mouthed wait" reveals something very distinctive to that city with NGs, Ds and Ts. That unique French/Italian/Yiddish/Canadian English blend is unlike any other English accent in the world.
I really love the girl from p.e.i. with the curly green hair’s accent. I’m albertan and I’ve worked with lots of people from the east coast and I’ve never heard such a clear irish influence on the dialect. My sister lived in Dublin for 3 years working as a speech therapist and came back sounding a lot like this lol.
You should do a follow up video with Canadians pronouncing the distinctive words you pronounce differently from Americans such as: pasta, again, negotiations, sorry, etc.
I love this! The readings by all the various speakers really show the variation in Canadian ways of speaking - and I particularly like how you use the map to visualize the regions where each speech pattern is typical. As the descendant of immigrants who arrived in (mainly) Quebec from (mainly) Ireland around (mainly) 1810, and some of whom made their way westward, I also want to suggest there is more regional variation and specialization in B.C. than your analysis reflects, & I hope that’s a project you or one of your colleagues might sometime take on. For just one example, a significant proportion of people in Victoria speak very clipped proper Britishy....
It's remarkable Dr. Boberg is able to explain the vernacular so well and also give verbal examples. My favorite accent is from Prince Edward Island.
I was born and raised in Toronto (Chrono, lol) and I've noticed that I monophthongize a lot of vowels depending on the placement (usually at the end of a word boundary, sometimes at the end of a syllable boundary). So I don't say the word "way" as /weɪ/, I say it more like /we/. Likewise, the word "okay" is /oke/ as opposed to /oʊkeɪ/. And although most of my o's are diphthongs in words like "sorry" /soʊri/, I would say my home city's name as /tʃrɑno/ as opposed to /tʃrɑnoʊ/. Same goes for the words "bro" /bro/ and "no" /no/. I also find that before /g/ my /æ/ sometimes becomes indistinguishable from /ɛ/ which seems to be a prominent feature for most Ontario speakers anyway. I live in Ottawa now for school but I found the monophthong thing tends to set me apart from Ottawanians - well that and they tend to front their /a/ before /r/s more than I do, e.g. they say something akin to /gærbɪdʒ/ for "garbage".
Who the fuck says "Chrono"? I've never heard that before. I've heard Toronto commonly pronounced as "T'ronoh", but never as "Chrono".
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Uhh... Where you shoveling that load of horseshit from?
I grew up north of Toronto and I say Trono, but if I say it fast it sounds very close to Chrono.
@@JanetStarChild Many baby boomers from Toronto pronounce it that way.
the BC accent sounds so similar to me as a lifelong British Columbian... but I have no idea how to explain it.
Similar to which other accent? Everywhere else in Canada? When talking about Regional accents, it's all about slight differences, for the most part, not the bigger differences you see in the states or UK. The differences between BC and the rest of the prairies are probably only noticeable to linguists, from what I gather.
Southwest BC from Kamloops & Kelowna towards Vancouver/Victoria have a slightly different accent from the Prairies. The about is more like 'abowt' vs the prairie 'aboat' or Ontarian 'abeaut'. The 'a' sound before n/ng/m is also a bit more American like cayn - tho not a s strong as in Ontario.
BC and the prairies are quite different.
Same !! Lol
PrincessZoey97 - I always wondered which of us was saying 'Aboat' as I hardly ever heard it here in Ontario. I gather you are more likely to hear it as you go westward.
This is the best treatment I have seen & heard of regional Canadian variances. Most Canadian friends of mine deny that there are differences, but as an American I have long felt that predictable variances exist. Thanks for validating my theory, eh?
There are regional accents all over Ontario, west and north most notably compared to people around Toronto
Yes there are rural accents, and some small enclaves like the Ottawa Valley. The Ontario Region mentioned by the linguistics professor covers the larger majority of Ontario.
Is Toledo Ontario considered part of Ottawa Valley? My family is from this region and I suffer from a slight Ottawa Valley accent. I tend to suppress the majority of it. lol
Yes, there are regional accents all over North America, which is why it's more accurate and useful to speak of the regional differences in North America than to speak of a Canadian accent and an American accent. There is North American English and its regional differences, but to speak of Canadian English or American English is not useful. There are fewer differences between American English and Canadian English than can be found in Canadian English. However, comparing Americans to Canadians is fair. Canadians are much nicer people. No one disputes that. The only question is why? I would like to see a treatise on that. Is it because there so many fewer Canadians? Is it because Canada has not yet been ruined by diversity to the extent that America has? Is it simply because of demographic differences? Hmm, Ive now interested myself, and I'm going to have to study this subject.
the accent that the Americans all know and love is the ottawa accent they say ah a lot and sometimes aboot and the weird tone waver thing
Jus' callin' from T'underbay!
I was raised in an area with very minimal "accent" with regard to pronunciation and there such so many HUGE differences in those from Western Canada and the Western United States.
It definitely depends on your peer group as well as your family. My family are Maritimers, but I was born in Ontario so I have a mixture of Maritime and Ontario accents. Some things I say like a Maritimer and some I say like a Mainlander, it truly depends.
I live in Montreal. Anglophones (native english speakers) speak in an accent very similar to the standard American accent. The accent of the Jewish community members also have some elements of the New York accent.
American here. Agree with the oat and aboat for my western Canadian friends. I’ve never heard oot and aboot but yeah that’s the old stereotype.
I am fascinated by accents so I really like this video.
I live in Ontario and I have had a friend for several years now on the internet, He if from England and after the amount of time speaking with him my mom has told me that I have been conveying my conversations like if I where British
Without the ascent.
Accents vary greatly in rural areas. I'm from the Ottawa Valley and we have a distinct accent. I've been told those that know can identify the accent across the country. City folk all kind of sound like Americans to me.
English is my second language and I can't tell the difference at all, haha. I've studied English on a university level and speak General American but I just can't hear it. I can't even tell the difference between Canadian and General American. In GTA V, Trevor is really upset that people hear that his accent is Canadian. I was really surprised :'D
Masuka North Americans can't tell the difference between New Zealand and Australia either, although New Zealanders insist there is a difference.
Because canadians don't believe they have accents but believe other immigrants have accents and even make fun of them lol
@@heronimousbrapson863 Are you kidding? I’m American and I can easily tell the difference between Australian and New Zealand accents. I can identify them in just a few words, usually. Especially when I hear that change of e to i in certain words which is a characteristic of NZ English.
Ethan Lamoureux Get a New Zealander to say the phrase “This fish is a bit wet” and you’ll hear the difference from Australian. You will hear something that sounds more like “Thus fush is a bet wit”.
@@happyspaceinvader508 That's kind of how I try to help other people understand the difference between accents from New Zealand and Australia. I'm from the U.S., but I'm really a big fan of language and accents. Most folks here can't seem to hear the difference in accents. People won't even admit that there are a ton of different accents across our own country, so it's not surprising.
I also noticed that a lot of people from central British Columbia (Kelowna, Kamploops, Revelstoke, etc.) had a much more distinct accent compared to people in the Alberta Plains, with a lot more "aboots" a "oots."
I heard sorry pronounced "sore-rey" often enough that it was a shock to hear it "sahr-ry". I even picked it up and still use the pronunciation 13 years after moving back to the US.
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Wow, I'm surprised how similar Alberta(where i was born), to BC, and also even all the way to Manitoba! Also even the northern territories sounded so much like alberta/bc/sask/man!
A lot of what makes a Canadian accent is definitely regional. But you have to remember accents in Canada can follow rural/urban patterns throughout the country, not to mention how accents in general are individual (something I noticed a lot of in this video).
Of course there are similarities! But (to me!) someone from Vancouver sounds more similar to someone from Seattle than they would to someone from Winnipeg or Toronto, even. Ontario, the Maritimes, and rural Canadian accents are what sound most stereotypically "Canadian" to my ears.
That said, the differences are probably so subtle to non-Canadians, haha.
This was great, eh! Canadian expatriate here. Well past 50 and I'm still trying to figure oot what accent I have. We left Toronto for Houston (!) when I was six years old, so to my southern friends I sound Canadian and to my northern friends I sound Texan.
The OU diphthong has always been my nemesis. I literally practiced in front of a mirror trying to learn the flat Texan ahhhw for our first year there and never did get the hang of it.
Americans always think that the Canadian "ou" is just a long "u" like "boot", but it's so much richer. We put equal emphasis on each half of the sound: I don't say "I'm going oot"; I say "I'm going uh-oot". Americans just aren't used to hearing the "u" part emphasized so much, so that's all they notice.
Also: Never used "eh" much until we moved to the States and I wanted to have an anchor to my heritage. At first I used it ironically, but now it seems like a normal way to emphasize or affirm something. No weirder than adding "... right?" or "... isn't it?" or, Henry Higgins help us all, "... you know?"
I’m from the ‘Texas of Canada’ (Montana), and I’m now living in CA and get asked if I’m Canadian 😂
This is cool. I'm a lifelong Ontarian, and I wouldn't think most of the speakers from other provinces sound "accented" if I heard them...but when I hear the Ontario speakers, they do sound particularly "like home" to me. And I can't put my finger on why. Interesting how accent differences can come in all degrees, some obvious and some barely perceptible.
I've always spelt the Ontario raising as "eu(w)t and abeu(w)t" when I find myself needing to write the difference. The w is my Dutch influenced way to distinguish -eu- from other sounds using the spelling as you might find in French or German.
sounds irish but canadians are different
I was born in Quebec Montreal
Wow, glad I stumbled onto this video. So interesting and informative, thanks!
Try reading this sentence aloud. “Erin bought a beautiful urn for her uncle Aaron.” As a British-born, Canadian-raised Ontarian, I would say that most people I know pronounce “Erin”, “Aaron” and “urn” almost identically to my ear. Even after 50 years here, I still do differentiate the three vowels before the “r”.
Hilary A interesting. NB’er, I’d say Erin and Aaron the same, but Urn would be “Earn”.
From Ontario (Toronto suburbs) and would pronounce Aaron slightly longer than Erin and urn much like the verb "earn".
As a Canadian I can say “eh” is used sometimes, but I’ve found it’s used in place of okay and hey, being more of a ‘ay and ‘ey.
Living in both Northern British Columbia and in Central Alberta, I heard "Eh" all the time, but what I noticed was that more of the older generations would say "eh", while the younger generations would say "hey". For my fellow Americans confused about the proper usage of hey or eh, just think of any time you would say "huh", for example, "that was a pretty cool movie, huh?" Replace "Huh" with "eh/hey" and you've got it down.
Yes I say hey way more often....and not huh...
I would like to know some theories as to why Canada with such small population separated by large distances has such a homogeneous accent, but the England with a large population so close together have such distinctive regional accents. You would think more interaction between the accents would lead to more convergence and isolation would lead to divergence.
+Chris P watch part two (which explains the provinces at least)
Nova Scotia here. Is it odd Newfoundland and PEI are the only accents that sounded odd to me?
Interesting compilation... pretty dark poem there though...
+Cole Pram It is not odd at all. Our regional differences are small, but noticeable. Pay attention to how Canadians pronounce words with 'ar' like car or park, and how they pronounce words like bag, and words like can, band. You will hear some slight differences, but they are there.
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I just always thought it was odd that considering how close I am to Newfoundland, I notice the Newfoundland accent much more than say a prairies accent, and Cape Breton (part of Nova Scotia for those not in the know). They're off the chart, especially after you get them drinking ^_^, it feels like Cape Breton's accent is much closer to Newfoundland's accent than it is to Nova Scotia's.
+Cole Pram And you would be right. Well I'm just a filmmaker but I've read the research :) It's because of the different levels of isolation of the scottish/irish immigrant population at the time, allowing Newfoundland/Cape Breton/PEI to retain more of their unique accent. The prairies sound very close to Ontario due to migration and settlement patterns. The Ontario region was settled first and then expanded west taking the accent with them. I'll be touching on this topic in Part 2
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*I'll be touching on this topic in Part 2*
I'm really looking forward to it.
+Cole Pram Thanks! Should be out in a few weeks.
I think that the woman from Montreal at 0:26 is from Westmount. The other two from Montreal are not.
Fascinating, we learn something new every day.
Often wondered how accents evolve.
In Canada's case, it's a mix of English settlers, Loyalists from the 13 colonies in the United States who developed a separate accent from the British, Scottish and Irish settlers more predominantly in the East, and the French in Quebec of course.
Just because the traditional dialect characteristics are dying out doesn't mean that the dialects in the US aren't diverging. They're simply being replaced with new characteristics.
+Spencer O'Dowd Ya I imagine that's the case. An example of that is what is occurring in parts of Canada, and separate unrelated parts of the US - the dress vowel examples sound like drass, what some nickname the 'valley girl' accent.
Yep, that happens in both the Canadian Vowel Shift and the Northern Cities Vowel Shift.
I was just talking to a friend of mine who's an educated and urban young person from New York (I'm from Boston of a similar background) and noticed subtle but notable speech differences between the two of us. We in New England have the cot/caught merger as well for example.
I would have figured that Boston and New York differ, but not having been in Boston, does the accent differ on socio-economic terms? Like in my video, explaining the fronting of /ahr/ with the east coast having the most fronting. I think Boston is an example of extreme backing of /ahr/ with the whole 'park the car in Harvard yard'.
+Jimiticus There is some socioeconomic differences in accent in Boston, especially in the more northerly suburbs.
I live in Alberta so can someone try and explain what the accent sounds like, I can hear every other one but the Alberta one sounds normal to me
Funny, I grew up in Ontario and the Ontario one sounds normal to me, though so does the BC one, as maybe because I've lived in BC now for 7 years.. Alberta one was second most normal and those east coasters might as well be scottish/irish sounding..
Your own accent will always sound “normal” to you.
@@Skelstoolbox same I live in Ontario and the BC accent sounds normal to me as well
That sounds accurate then. Our own accents always sound the most normal to us.
I find that Canadian hockey players have the heaviest accents. I notice this as I am a Canadian that plays hockey. None of the people in this video looked like they play hockey or are from small towns. I think that if u get hockey players and people from small towns in Canada, you’ll get heavier accents. I’ve visited small towns and you hear it. That being said, I definitely notice my own accent when I go to the u.s. on vacation
What about hutterrites in Alberta? They have quite the unique way of talking too. Obviously because of the influence of low German.
Charles Boberg did mention the low-German speaking immigrants to Alberta later in the video.
TheSliderBy I believe it's the mennonites who speak low German. The Hutterites speak a High German dialect, which I understand is similar to the German dialect in Carinthia in Austria. I've heard that German tourists can easily converse with Hutterites in their own language.
As an Pacific Northwest American, there are reasons why I think "eh?" and "sorry" are great Canadian stereotypes. To me its not a negative thing at all. when it comes to "eh?" in the US, I never hear this word spoken at all. obviously I know Canadians dont used it in every sentence but, its the difference of not using it at all in the US, and just the times when i do hear it.. im just thinking oh hey im in Canada! ha. Also I think of "sorry" because the amount that its used compared to in the US. I visit Vancouver alot, and i always notice even the bus will say, Sorry, out of service. unlike Seattle its just. out of service. Americans are just colder it seems. it of course depends on the region in the US to though.
Canadian here...can't argue with scholar facts. I hate all videos of people pretending to be expert... Refreshing and accurate... I traveled extensively throughout all provinces.
I've always thought "eh" was a hostile "huh" instead of a "right". For example: "So you keyed my car huh? **proceeds to punch the guy** ".
SO YA KEYED MY CAR, EH?
I just realized that I don't say "eh" all the time, only for things like "It's so cold out, eh?" which I use instead of "isn't it".
It was fun to hear William Shatner playing a child of Iowa, saying something like, "We're fighting the Romulans a-gain on shedule."
As a Utahn, I found none of these particularly different than my own accent, but a few leaned toward a Scottish brogue. Utah is mostly descendants of British folks, with a smattering of Nordic and German. And of late, our Hispanic and other friends!
Differences also between Northern-Ontario, Eastern-Ontario and other parts of Ontario. Differences as well between Montreal-English and other parts of Quebec, (the townships, North-Shore, etc).
The more northern/rural/small-town you go in Ontario, the more people sound like they’re from the prairies (Albertan accent is the most exaggerated of these)
To me they have a normal American English accent they just talked way more clear than we do which is sad because they're from a different country
There were several varied accents in this video. I don't understand how you can't hear them.
East coaster (Northwest NS) living in Alberta. If i say "car, bar, or far" they always know i wasn't born here haha
I can't tell if I have a Prairie, Ontario, or BC accent lol
“Sorry” at 7:27 doesn’t sound familiar. I think most people say it the same as the girl from Montreal
I'm born and raised in Toronto and I definitely say it the same as 7:27 (Ontario). Your own way of saying it might be the same as the girl from Montreal, but you probably hear both in conversation and don't notice.
The difference between the Canadian accent and the United States accent is subtle, and people whose first language is not English would have trouble telling them apart. I probably heard the most difference when I was up in New Brunswick some years back.
I was born in Detroit which is right on the Canadian border so things Canadian don't seem all that different to me although when I am in Canada I am aware that I'm in a different country. But I can't really put it into words how they're different. I live in south Texas now and I have been asked if I was Canadian.
That's really cool! I wish I was mistaken for Canadian down here. I'm a Texan, but I'm told I have a northern accent (kinda neutral sounding, similar to accents you'd hear in ontario but without the sore-y and different abouts/outs/South and no rhotic r) but when I'm around my family who have a much more prominent southern US accent I adopt it for a period of time. It's also true that if I spend time around Canadians I'll end up adopting their accent whichever that one may be.
Another great topic to discuss would be the caught-cot pronunciation in Canadian English. In general, the short *'o'* in Canadian English (at least the way I hear it) falls somewhere between British and American pronunciations in terms of openness. In British English, *cot* is very labialized (lips rounded); in Canadian English, the lips are a little less rounded, but still rounded; while in American English, *cot* is very open, with lips less tense and even less rounded. This is my observation, though I have yet to find a detailed video on the subject.
Just an excellent description of Canadian English across the land. I can verify most, & learned a few new things- e.g Montrealers whose mother tongue is English don't say 'sorey' 'abeaut' or 'cayn' like southern Ontarians or Nova Scotians. The Celtic type of accent in PEI is also wonderful to hear existing.
Thank you! Are you/have you studied linguistics?
I've taken classical roots of English at University & learning Spanish but mostly just a fascination with accents. Currently studying the accents of the British Isles & social perceptions based on accents. Incredible the attributes assigned to a person from just their accent.
From Ontario, I hear 'eh?'' used as a confirmation when we mean 'right?'. Its used as a question, not a random word, so it is always elevated at the end of the sentence, especially used in the fast way Ontarians speak. I have never heard someone say 'around the corner eh' as a statement. More likely to hear it as a question, 'just going around the corner eh?'
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My favourite northern Ontario saying: "Yesterday, I goes fishin' and I catches myself a bass."
I can't tell American and Canadian accents apart! Except Canadian accents sound more pleasant.
born and raised in ontario and i seemed to have diverged my accent from the regional province accent. i dont know what my accent is or where its from but i developed it. my long 'i's sound like 'oi' and i say most of my short 'a' sound like people in the eastern canada's car. 'ker' (?).
Where are you from in Ontario?
toronto
Honestly sounds a bit like how my family in Michigan talk.
I've lived in Alberta for 35 years, but am originally from British Columbia. I have honestly never perceived a difference in accent overall.
I could be wrong, but I do notice that English Montrealers do not nasalize words like "Canada, can, dance, and band."
I've said it to a few people now....in Ontario we don't say aboot or aboat. It's more like the bow of the boat.
You want to talk about a bow and not the stern of a boat. Don't start talking about a boot, leave them in the closet with the shoes.
no you say ABOOT!!!
oot and aboot. the only time I hear people do the "oo" is when they mock people who think we say that. I find "at all" is pronounced weird where I'm from. it sounds like "a tall".
Ghostcupcake1 We prounaounce it about....
My personal observation is that the difference (when there is one) between Canadian and American "about" is an extra, tiny little "oo" sound. But the "oo" is not after the b (i.e. not aboot), it's before the "t". So the word can start out as abou_ but what makes it Canadian is what happens after that. If it goes straight to the "t" it sounds American to an American. If that little "oo" slips in before the "t" it sounds Canadian and can give the impression of sounding like "aboot" because the unusualness of that extra "oo" sound sticks out for us. So even if you think you're saying "about" you might possibly be saying abou-oo-t (a-bow-oo-t, where bow rhymes with cow and oo is the vowel in hoot) in our perception. If it's a stronger Canadian accent it can sound more like aboa-oo-t to us.
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So... Canadians pronounce the whole word "about", whereas US Americans pronounce it as "abot"? That's what it seems like you're saying.
My Canadian sister now lives in the States, she says that now that she has been there 18 years she noticed how weird all Canadians say identical. We pronounce highly stress each symbol and highly define each symbol. And say I - dent - i - cle. We say it with such force it is like we are stressing the great significance that those things are I DENT I CLE.
Maybe living in a country full of snow and taught as children that "no two snowflakes are alike" maybe when something is identical we think this is extremely important 🤣
dude you're amazing i love this!
As a Canadian I never noticed the Easterns with an Irish influence
I'm from the US and based on what I've seen and heard on TH-cam, very few Canadians say oot and aboot. The way most Canadians say out and about is more like oat and aboat, or midway between them and owt and abowt.
Edward Miessner yup, I noticed that once I moved to Nova Scotia from Montreal. They do pronounce it « oat » and « aboat ».
Need some more Nova Scotians and not just those from Halifax. Get some of us Acadians in there
I thought Acadia was more French speaking?
Came here eafter watching trailer park boys... it's the owt and abowt or oat and a-boat that gets me.. love it.
You have the "fronted r" thing in Western NY, where people from Rochester say the name of the city sort of like "Rahchestrr" compared to a more generic American English accent.
For me as a Canadian I do not have a strong accent. However strong accents exist and they're most prominent when the letter L and 'ou' sounds are spoken as well as the letter R sound.
2:30 I recognized that sound of voice immediately😂😂😂 I'm from theree
I've always said "hey?", as in "did you get that, or do you agree", but it gets mistaken for "eh?" It's really annoying.
From my experience the Ottawa valley is much more Scottish than Irish.
ignore this, im just obsessed with this accent 0:42
I’m from pei and our accent is just a less extreme Newfie accent (unless you’re from town, then you just have a normal canadian/American accent)
As a Newfie who’s been over to pei, your not wrong, but I mean it’s still nowhere near how bad a Newfie accent often is. There’s like a slight Newfie accent but I can hear a tid bit more Irish then Newfie.
1:35 He looks like somebody from Breaking Bad.
I know this is an old video and an excellent one too.. But an someone tell e what poem they used??? It's so beautiful but i can't find it anywhere online!
I wrote for this video. It's centered on key sounds and words that would demonstrate what was similar and different between the regional accents.
Very interesting! Probably because am Canadian, but have trouble identifying the ‘Canadian raising’ - probably because it just sounds normal to me.
I have musically trained ears so I can hear it easily
I am from Ontario and I couldn't here much change between them, Except the one from newfoundland, I would have thought he was UK like Scotland or Ireland.
"Caar" for car is the same as the Northern Ireland accent, (as opposed to the Republic of Ireland)
Kris Brooks I hear a lot of remnants of Irish influence.
Have visited Canada several times and spoke to many Canadians to whom I said "'your accent is so odd" to which they replied that it was my accent that was odd. Viva la difference
Michigan accent is weird as fuck. "I went to Chicken Shayak and spent 5 dayalers. Are ya hayuppy?"
Venezuelan here, it's strange that I am very fixated with Appalachian, Brogue and Scottish English accents and at the same time feel an affinity with Newfoundland & Labrador region, I hadn't any idea of how similar the accents are, hahahaha.
I have a house in PEI and it's true that there is so much Scottish and Irish influence! I used to think that it was normal across the country but I went to Niagara falls one year and it was comparatively like a melting pot!
Being English,I could listen to all of these accents
all day, lovely soft warm accents unlike most
American accents which grate something awful.
I struggles to hear the the sound differences (accents) across a lot of regions (I am from BC) however i do tend to notice the differences in how we construct our language (words we use, the meanings we sometimes associate with same words). Interesting video.
I wish they had included the Woodbridge, Ontario accent. Very unique lol
lmao. I agree.