Words that Canadians struggle with
 

Tuesday
Herb
Basil
Duty
About
Oregano

Any others?

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Bollocks

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:rofl:

I was surprised the first time I saw the Newcastle Brown Ale advert on my TV

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Mirror

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That's my favourite one. Meeeerrr.

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My round.

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Aluminium

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Solder
Caramel

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charade
leisure
vase
tomato

but these aren't specifically Canadian, Merkins have the same difficulties...

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Water

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I like that :) (never heard it before).

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Apricot
Hawk
Maureen (they pronounce it 'Marine')

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Hawk ?

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I think that's more the USAsians. "Wadder".

Canadians can't pronounce Toronto.

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Hark.

The christian names Don and Dawn are phonetically indistinguishable in Canada.

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Or "Hock"

Agree on the Don and Dawn - took me a long time to work out what a friends mother was called!

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:rofl:

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Did you know that one of Queen Victoria's favourite wines was Hochenheimer Riesling, which she and therefore all England referred to as Hock.

True dat.

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Thinking of the Canadian footballer, I realise that they cannot pronounce either Craig or Forest.

Almond

Tomorrow

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They are pronounced they way an English person would most likely say darn. A Canadian would say 'darrrn' Canadian is rhotic doncha know.

Pawn and porn, that's one us lot get wrong. We aren't rhotic enough with our porn.

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:) Very good.

But I'd like to expand on Hock. Hochenheimer Riesling Eiswein later became popular in Canada (in very small quantities). This is the origin of the term "Ice Hocky".

Not true dat. ;)

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+1 :rofl:

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Old people often have a problem with "thank you" if you offer the simplest courtesy

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Ceilidh

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Porridge. The Mrs pronounces it as 'porrrjjj'. Can't get it right for love nor money.

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oh, Premier also...

dependent on the region i assume, but on TV i hear them talking about the Barclays "PRI-MEER" League :lol:

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Irregardless.

It's not that they struggle with it, just the fact that so many of them insist on actually using it.

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Street names.

Macdonnell they say as mac don elle with a rising voice at the end, as if they were small children mimicking a French accent.

Delhi they pronounce as Del High.

Yorkshire is York Shire.

It must be quite embarassing to not be able to pronounce the name of your own street.

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WimbleTon.

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Pasta. Come on, how can you get such a simple word wrong?

Maybe it's because they usually add some "eersistable parmezhan" to it.

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Monaghan in Peterborough is pronounced Mon a gan, mon a gahn, monag an, rarely monahan.
And Peterborough is Peeder buh ro.

But i suppose we are the foreigners

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The Americas basterdised every language we Europeans gave them...

English, Spanish, French, Portuguese :lol:

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Sirius.

I always get a giggle when CBC announcers say 99.1 FM and Serious (some channel or other).

I think they may be contrasting Sirius with some star called Frivolous.

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I haven't come across a Canadian saying that word. How do they say it?

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the only reason i have is that i have a little book sitting on my toolbox called "Eat Haggis & Ceilidh On" (http://www.amazon.ca/Eat-Haggis-Ceil.../dp/1908661003)

when asked "What does that say?" I reply, "What do you think?"

see-lie-dooh is the most common

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Thank you for that most interesting piece of knowledge.

I was at a Ceilidh in Cumberland (of all places) just last summer.

A Silly-do would sum it up nicely.

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in their defence, there are Gaelic origin words that I would never have been able to pronounce without looking them up :lol:

I love Ceilidhs haha

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Ah, yes. I always had you pegged as a Morris Dancing "man".

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I question your assumption that I'm a "man". We live in a post-gendered world you know.

Nonetheless, I characterized that Ceilidh as being silly largely because it took place in Cumberland and was AFAIK devoid of Scotch.

I assure you I looked.

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Feels all British round this way though ;)

Can take Norfolk, London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paisley, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Suffolk, Essex, Bristol or Yorkshire streets in the space of a few moments. Even the Irish aren't neglected with Dublin and Cork.

Then again...the one I live on is named after a place in Belgium.