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Don't even get me started on -- as a Canadian -- I went to work down in San Francisco and my colleagues were all like "what the hell is a prowject?". They were
by hungryforcodes 5y ago
Don't even get me started on -- as a Canadian -- I went to work down in San Francisco and my colleagues were all like "what the hell is a prowject?".
They were all saying "prawject".
Fortunately we had good laughs over that and how I kept saying "yeah, I'm sorry" at the end of every fifth sentence.
It seems to me that for the spelling part, American and British orthography are both accepted in Canada. So we could write "center" or "centre". Also "color" or colour". Which I find amusing, as both of the British spellings come from the French -- bolstering my theory that English is just a mispronunciation of French (I jest! :P).
- littlestymaar 5y ago> center" or "centre". Also "color" or colour". Which I find amusing, as both of British spellings come from the French “Centre” indeed comes directly from French, but “colour” is itself a mutation, the French word being «couleur»
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> “colour” is itself a mutation, the French word being «couleur» That's what the French word is now. But the French word used to be color, which is where the American spelling comes from, a late, backward-looking reform. Are you sure it wasn't colour in French when the English spelling standardized?
- hungryforcodes 5y agoAccordingly to this article: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/color-colour/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/color-colour/ It seems the French spelling was "colour" at one point.
- littlestymaar 5y agoTIL, thanks
- hungryforcodes 5y agoAnd myself in the process of answering you :)
- 8ytecoder 5y agoThe way I remember it, Webster standardised a lot of the spellings to be close to how it’s pronounced. The u in colour is never pronounced,…etc.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoI wouldn't bet on that. The u in colour is never pronounced, but neither is the o.[1] The spelling color is much more likely to be motivated by that being the Latin spelling of the word. [1] I watched Star Trek: The Original Series recently and the cast's pronunciation of "sensors" with the FORCE vowel in the second syllable is really jarring. Do we know if that was an affectation or a natural pronunciation?
- phonebanshee 5y agoI think you're hearing a typical Vulcan accent...
- thaumasiotes 5y agoSpock says it a lot, which is very conspicuous, but the rest of the cast pronounce it the same way.
- dfawcus 5y agoI was always amused when someone ordered the launch of some some form of buoy. "launch a boo-eey" (Brit's distinguish between "boy" and "buoy" - the latter has the same sound as in "buoyancy")
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> (Brit's distinguish between "boy" and "buoy" - the latter has the same sound as in "buoyancy") That didn't clarify much. I would pronounce "buoyancy" as if it began with "boy".
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- AnonHP 5y ago> Fortunately we had good laughs over that and how I kept saying "yeah, I'm sorry" at the end of every fifth sentence. Didn’t they also find it amusing how you pronounced “sorry”? There’s an episode in South Park where Butters has a Canadian girlfriend and he tries to say it like she does.
- OJFord 5y ago'prow' as in long 'oh', rather than 'ow my foot' right? Even with short-o, Canadian's say 'prahject' to my (British) ear. (The short O that starts my name, too.)