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Cool, but kind of US-centric. People in rural Ontario sound pretty different to people from Vancouver, yet they get the same colour on this map.
by minedwiz 3y ago
Cool, but kind of US-centric. People in rural Ontario sound pretty different to people from Vancouver, yet they get the same colour on this map.
- ipcress_file 3y agoThat's what I came here to say. You can hear the differences when people from various parts of British Columbia speak, much less Saskatchewan and northern Ontario.
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoAgreed. People in Vancouver sound practically indistinguishable from people in California but Ontario is unmistakably Canadian. I understand how the Maritimes came up so much more, though.
- ksenzee 3y agoInteresting. As someone who lives between Vancouver and California, I can tell them apart quite easily.
- brightlancer 3y agoRight, because everyone in The South sounds the same. Or The West. The map lists various differences within each dialect region, including in Canada. How narrowly should we define dialects?
- eesmith 3y agoDon't fret that much. New Mexico English doesn't sound like Idaho English either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_American_English#New_Mexico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_American_English#New_M... refers to NM English as a "subdialect", so it's likely more a matter of how you define some pretty fuzzy borders.
- dubcanada 3y agoNova Scotia for example is wrong… as is New Brunswick. A decent chunk of New Brunswick is French speaking. Some pockets of Nova Scotia are Frenchish speaking. Cape Breton is closer to NFL then Halifax. Newfoundland is not even close to Labrador. And all of Newfoundland is Gaelic/Irish sounding, not just St. John’s. Yet they included the extremely small France owned island. Not only that North America includes Mexico actually it’s 9 countries large. Yet only Canada and USA are displayed. Rest are “Spanish speaking” or something. No Greenland, Bahamas, Bermuda, etc. there are English speakers there as well.
- allenu 3y agoI came here to comment on this too. I’m from Edmonton but live in Seattle now. I can definitely hear a difference in people from Vancouver versus those from Edmonton. I was hoping to see more detail on the Canadian side.