How exactly do you say it?
 

Please clear this up for me.... my family are all driving me nuts!

Sasketchewan..
my dad says it is "sars- ketch- uwan"
my sister thinks it's "sass- ke- choon"
mum (with a strong NI accent) says it would be "sass- ke- chew-an"

Which one gets a pat on the back? :confused:

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Sas-kat-chewan. :)

Re: How exactly do you say it?
 

Well it is spelled "Saskatchewan"

and pronounced (as far as I am aware)

"Sass-Kat-Chew-an" with the emphasis on the kitty! :p

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So they're all wrong.. ha ha!!

Looks like I'll just kick them up the backside and send them home for the night! :o

Thanks for clearing it up for me.

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Gave myself a kick up the bum for bad spelling! :p

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LOL it's just that that would definitely change the way you'd pronounce it! :D

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As Morw said, emphasis on the -kat-, but also more of an - aaaan- sound at the end as opposed to -an-

Sas-kat-chew-aaaaaan

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I think what confused me a little to start with is there is a place in Saskatchewan called Saskatoon, with the emphasis on the "toon".

Kinda rolls off the tongue though ...... Saskatoon, Sakatchewan! :D

That's possibly what your sister was thinking of.

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OMG I couldnae say that on a dunken night.

lol

Emma

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I would say that it's pronounced:

Suss-KA-chuwun.

And talking about pronunciation - first let me tell you that we have lived in Canada for about 35 years!

So yesterday, my husband comes to me and says (at least this is what it sounded like to me)

"Do we have any kood?"

I said "kood - what is kood? I don't know what you want?"

Then he repeated himself "Do we have any koowd?"

Oh ----------------- cord - do we have any cord?"

As he always says "I am going for a wowk." As in "I am going for a walk."

I should have known!

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Should I reconsider my choice of destinations? If I can't say it, surely they won't let me live there!?!

I take it there's only one way of saying Alberta??

:rolleyes:

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LOL, sorry no - we live in Alburda :D

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Me finks me must go lie down! ;)

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Dont worry about it!!

When we first moved here with had friends who lived on Retallack Street. They just could not remember how it was pronounced! They tried "rettle-ack" but it actually rhymes with "metallic".

My bugbears were Kootenays - I thought it should be "koo-ten-ayz" instead of "kootniz" and Okanagan - I kept calling it "O-KAN-i-gan".

There are just as many weird pronunciations in England as there are here. There is part of Maidstone called Tovill - I thought it would be pronounced "Tow-vill" but it apparently rhymes with hovel".