Canadian Accent?
Why do americans think we have accents, we sound the same as them. if your american try to explain what we sound like if we have so called "accents"
shareYeah, I agree with whoever said Jonesy has the most notable accent. I love his character, but the way he says "about" drives me crazy!
I can't explain it very well, but there is a difference, though it's only identifiable on certain words, especially those with a "ou" combination. And most "o" sounds come out hard. For example, in America, "sorry" is commonly pronounced "saw-ree" while in Canada it's "soar-ree". "Tomorrow" in the US is "Too-maw-row" and in Canada it's "Too-moe-row".
It's little things like that. And no, it's not because Americans just "pronounce words incorrectly".
How you perceive, or whether you perceive, the characters as having a specific accent will depend on where you come from and so on. Most of the voice cast apparently come from Ontario originally, so they could be seen to have a Southern Ontario accent.
shareSome canadian people say "out" or about and it sonds like ooot instead of owt
shareTo the OP, accents are EVERYWHERE! In the U.S., depending on where you live, you will have a different accent - from the south, the midwest, the west, the northeast, the great lakes, etc. It's the same in Canada.
I'm originally a Western New Yorker, but I now live in Montreal, but have lived in North Carolina, Florida and Toronto as well. While living in North Carolina (stationed there in the Army), I started to get a southern accent after not even 2 years there. I'd come home to WNY and my friends would say I had an accent, but I never believed them. It wasn't until I heard my own voice on a video that I realized it was true. When I lived in Toronto (between 1997-2002), people always asked me if I was from Boston for some reason. I then lived in Florida for 6 years before moving here to Montreal last year. Here in Montreal, I'm often asked "where in the states are you from?" when people here me talk.
Growing up on the border of Canada, I always heard the difference in accents between the Buffalo area and southern Ontario. While Canadians are definitely known to say "eh" a lot, Americans say "huh" a lot. As far as the "out" sound, my friends from Alberta & Toronto and I have come to a conclusion....Canadians pronounce it sort of a cross between "oot" and "oat". My friend from Alberta now jokingly emails/texts me and spells words like "about" as "aboat".
Other words that are definitely different - "sorry" has been brought up already and someone was exactly right in pointing out that Canadians tend to say "soar-y", where as Americans usually pronounce it "sah-ry". The A is often pronounced in the long form in Canada too, like "pasta" being pronounced "pass-ta", instead of "pahs-ta", or "Mazda" being pronounced "Mazz-da" instead of "Mahz-da".
As far as accents in this cartoon, I think Jude sounds the most Canadian out of all of them. The way he says "totally" sounds so typically Canadian to me. Plus, there are a lot of hockey references in the show which DEFINITELY makes it unmistakenably Canadian.
Uh, maybe in the hicks....Just like how a majority of Americans have bizarre accents just the same.
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