Re: Words that Canadians struggle with
 

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.

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Haha had forgotten about good old "parmasiân"

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Ok. Perhaps I've been away too long, but can you describe the difference between English and Canadian pronunciations of parmesan?

Over my head, that.

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Well I always just said parme-san given the spelling.

My wife, and other Canadians, seem to add this odd H sound so it becomes parme-shan

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Thank you. Not come across that myself. but (a) I rarely go to Italian restaurants in Canada and (b) I'm not married to a Canadian.

My loss, I'm sure.

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Doner kebab