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Shame that it's US-centric. New World English has a fascinating continuum of region dialects and syncretism. For example just over the border in Western Canad
by api_or_ipa 3y ago
Shame that it's US-centric. New World English has a fascinating continuum of region dialects and syncretism. For example just over the border in Western Canada, a sticker you put on a car is pronounced 'deck-al' instead of 'dee-cal'. That one is a dead giveaway for someone from AB or BC.
- colanderman 3y agoIn southern New England we pronounce that "bumpah stickah".
- sillywalk 3y agoI still have yet to here anybody in Canada pronounce about as "a-boot".
- j45 3y agoStill, useful to see if these types or other types of patterns might exist in other areas of the world. For example, studying the written english of anyone, globally, based on certain phrases you can usually narrow down where they have spent some or a major part of their formative years.
- kfreezen2 3y agoOne I've heard a few Canadians pronounce differently is either "California" or "Pennsylvania" with an extra syllable. So, where an American would say the "nia" syllable like "nya", a Canadian would say "Cal-i-for-knee-a" I still wish I knew why this particular difference exists