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Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Steve_P
(Post 7712377)
Try using phonetics when you give someone your postal code.
Say E as in echo.;) |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by rwin
(Post 7712390)
I use to hate giving my postal code over the phone when ordering stuff from the states. It had a Z in it. It seems a lot of people down there have never heard Zed and it just makes me cringe to say Zee.
Ours has an S and some people hear it as F so I most times will say S as in sierra.:) |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Tuppence
(Post 7712335)
Definitely true in my bit of Nova Scotia. We are number 78. Next door is 90 something. We are on 1-2 acre lots.
Friend of ours live right out in the sticks in NB. You can guesstimate how far out of the village they are, by converting their house number to a distance. Perhaps it used to be based on yards, back in the day :rofl: I would guess that it may have been every 30 feet??? but that would leave a 3ft difference when converting to metric! This is the whole reason that conversion of distance is a real pain in the rear, my personal view is metric is a far greater system but why anybody would want to change a whole countries philosophy is lost on me. |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Steve_P
(Post 7712402)
Zed as in Zulu. ;)
Ours has an S and some people hear it as F so I most times will say S as in sierra.:) |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Steve_P
(Post 7712402)
Zed as in Zulu. ;)
Ours has an S and some people hear it as F so I most times will say S as in sierra.:) |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by livermanl
(Post 7712410)
A learned man in phonetics!!! Not many left nowadays I guess it was the ATC, right?
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Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Partially discharged
(Post 7712429)
I usually say 'p' as in pneumonia and 'k' as in knife.
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Re: The canadian accent????
I shall of course be raising Kate to speak the perfect received pronounciation english that her father does. ;)
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Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 7712329)
I very much doubt that, where we are lots were originally 400 acres and roads run at those boundaries, whatever the fire number scheme is, it's not metric. Can easily find out what it is, hang on...
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Re: The canadian accent????
I still think my daughters sound pretty English but recent visitors soon put me right. A friend of Daughter Number One (originally from Lincolnshire I think) has been here a year more than us - so three years - and she is 11 years old and to me, sounds pretty Canadian now - the odd flat vowel comes out here and there.
In a way, I think it will be a shame when my girl's accents go completely, but I guess it will happen. Certainly, their style of talking, like, and intonation, like, has changed hugely, like, with the questioning tone at the end of many a sentence? And of course the vocabulary. Hubby says my R's have changed - that's an R folks, not my arse. But I figure my R's were always a little more rolled and pronounced than your average Surrey girl anyway 'cos my parents were from Norn Iron. I do speak slower to give people time to tune into me but I am easily understood. Well, in a speaking sense anyway ;) |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Simon Legree
(Post 7712474)
I'm still hanging on !!
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Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 7712619)
Sorry, attack of work. My OH is having lunch with the man who came up with the scheme for this county so we should know soon. In the meantime we might consider the convenience of the Canadian highway exit numbering scheme, the exits on the 401 in Ontario are numbered for the distance in miles from Detroit.
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Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by dbd33
(Post 7712619)
Sorry, attack of work. My OH is having lunch with the man who came up with the scheme for this county so we should know soon. In the meantime we might consider the convenience of the Canadian highway exit numbering scheme, the exits on the 401 in Ontario are numbered for the distance in miles from Detroit.
Renumbering the exits, US style, using the distance between them from the Ambassador Bridge or wherever would be a great idea. At least then if you are trying to navigate you know the distance between exits. |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by Simon Legree
(Post 7712693)
An attack of work ! Don't you know that work is the curse of the drinking class.
Renumbering the exits, US style, using the distance between them from the Ambassador Bridge or wherever would be a great idea. At least then if you are trying to navigate you know the distance between exits. The emergency number thing has me puzzled, we're number 477125, the neighbour is 477007, I can't think of a measure that seperates us by 118 units so I don't think it's a linear measure. Even if it was, 477000 somethings from where? America? The county line? Perhaps the numbers are some sort of grid coordinates. That would make sense as many of the roads have the same name and people are often lost because they confuse 4th Line, 4th Line, 4th Line OS, 4th Line EHS, 4th Line SW and 4th line. It took me a month of Saturdays to find the dump. |
Re: The canadian accent????
Originally Posted by G77
(Post 7712133)
In 10 months, I still haven't found out how to say the letter E and be understood - which is a pain because my postcode has an E in it, they always think I'm saying A. They even put it on my drivers license which I had to get changed - arrrrgh!
Also, can't bring myself to say wader instead of water - tried 4 times to order a water the other day before the woman next to me in the queue stepped in as an interpreter and ordered a wader for me.... |
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