Canada is big. *sub ‘accent’ for ‘dialect in there if you prefer. I’d call it a burr/purr rhyme. My Mandarin is very weak, but it seems that there are two competing pronunciations for consonant+iong (in Hanyu Pinyin). In the American West you get LAW with [ɑ] but LAWYER with [ɔ], In my accent (grew up in NorCal and Maryland) horror is with the “or” sound, i.e. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (84.39%) If you have newscasters all over the world saying LAW-ye(r), you can’t switch to saying LAH-yer. Not just how do Canadian people spell sorry, New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. “Lawyer” has the CHOICE vowel (LOY-er) in most British English varieties , even ones with distinct COT-CAUGHT. all generally use the sound sequence of FORCE rather than START. There also “oor”, [uɻ], used for lure, tour, moor, spoor, and poor. The most logical (in my auto-didactic opinion) is re-syllabification. Cookies help us deliver our Services. How to say canadian in English? For me, car/sorry isn’t either the vowel of pot/father or the vowel of caught, but somewhere in between. This is why Americans pronounce “sort” (NORTH) differently from “sought” (THOUGHT). I think this regrouping phenomenon can only happen in languages with diphthongs or triphthongs. Look at the merry-Mary-marry merger. Regardless of gender, pronounce the entire phrase: [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.59%) The phrase "Je suis" means "I am," and "désolé" means "sorry" in the form of an adjective. A Canadian pronunciation that my Irish friends used to make fun of me for is the similar pronunciation of the words bag and vague. 11. the first vowel in “Florida” ". Is English unique in this? In my dialect, horrible, porridge, and sore–and Oh!–have the diphthong vowel /ou/, poor is pronounced /’pu ɚ/, and sorry has the vowel /ɑ/–the same one, I think, that I use in father and merged cot and caught. Although it’s not as odd, IMO, as words in Wells’ CURE set, which in General American can have the vowel in NORTH, NURSE or FEWER. b. I agree. As Bob the Canadian mentioned, it can be very helpful to record yourself on your phone when practicing pronunciation. One way of smoothing seems to be saying it as ee-UNG (with the sound of “put”). **LAX**, So, for Americans (non-NYC/Boston), what happens with “horrible” and “orange”? Any data in regional variation within California on the pronunciation of horror? a. 11. the first vowel in “Florida” [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (10.92%) b. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Pronunciation of Justin trudeau with 1 audio pronunciation, 2 meanings, 5 translations, 20 sentences and more for Justin trudeau. Well, in many varieties of North American English (including General American), /or/ words of any kind–‘horrible,’ ‘porridge,’ ‘sore,’ ‘poor‘–are all pronounced with the same vowel, roughly akin to the ‘aw’ sound in ‘flaw.’ ([ɔ] in the IPA.) d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (89.87%), California: Press J to jump to the feed. e. other (2.79%), source: http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_11.html. We’re not sorry anymore, say it like it should be, Denis Shapovalov (final tip: accent on first and third syllables). The differences are perhaps less dramatic than those between BrE dialects or even AmE dialects, but they do exist, and it’s not just Newfoundlanders & TheRestofUs. So why does “sorry” sound more like “sahr + y” and why does horrible/orange sound more like “hoar + i +ble/oar ++ ange”???? Is this the one exception in which Westerners distinguish between the two vowels? So how do Canadians pronounce the sorrow-borrow set? This seems utterly wrong to me; it’s definitely not the pure/poor split that I grew up speaking. The best example I’ve heard was about 20 years ago, from a woman who was then in her 80’s. 1. the first vowel in “Florida” How to Say SORRY -- American English Pronunciation - YouTube Re: males from toronto lacking rounded DOLLAR – sources? 10 years ago. You mentioned 3 or 4 different areas of the country (depending on where in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas), so at least 3 different dialects. I say Sar-E: ) Answer Save. So Canadian raising is a systematic change in the pronunciation of the diphthong /au/, such that the first part of the diphthong is pronounced slightly higher in the mouth when it’s in front of a voiceless sound. But I guess it’s a minority. /hɒɹɪbli/ and /sɒɹi/). c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.47%) [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.27%) Lieutenant A military and police ranking in Canada that is pronounced as “LEF-tennant” and in the U.S. as “LEW-tennant” Process Canadians PRO-cess information; Americans PRAW-cess information. when my ‘sorry’ can be either [ɑ] or [ɒ] (I also don’t see [ɔ] as an allophone of ‘horrible’, which Ive always associate as [o]) Perhaps my lect is just really messed up? I know sure and your can land on either side, but I thought lure always went with pure in the pure/poor split. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (86.53%) c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (18.10%) The vowel that I use in “flaw” does not sound to me like the vowel I use in “sorry”, “borrow” and “tomorrow”. Conditioned mergers, et al are irrelevant. **LAX**, Because of the father-bother merger, you have a starry-sorry merger. So to British, Australian, or New York ears, the Canadian syllables might sound uncomfortably close to ‘whore/hoar’ and ‘sore.’. Sorry for that. 5 years ago. An interesting thing happens, where the words “sorry” and “sari” (an Indian women’s garment) are pronounced differently in Canadian accents (/sɔri/ vs. /sɑri/, whereas they are pronounced exactly the same in American accents (both as /sɑri/). No phonemic mergers, however. 10 years ago. Another way seems to be EW-uhng (with the French [y] as in “deja vu”). xD. But I’m not sure I trust Wiktionary on the pure/poor split after noticing that they give /ˈlɔrɪd/ rather than /ˈlɜrɪd/ as an alternate pronunciation for lurid. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (6.72%) 11. the first vowel in “Florida” Since LAW-yer is impossible, they re-syllabify to LOY-er since it mirrors the prestige accent. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.62%) A participant from the U.S. (California, to be specific) commented, 'I thought Canadian "eh" is pronounced "ey", as a diphthong.' It’s a red herring; Americans simply chose the r-controlled vowel that sounded closest to the prestige accent! LAW-yer) in the US, and not often even there, even though that must logically have been the original pronunciation. That “eastern” sound associated with San Francisco is very old. Feels a bit disappoing, like when I met a 20yo native torontonian with no signs of the canadian shift or canadian raising, birthing his nickname ‘fauxrontian’. An excerpt from How to Be a Canadian (Even if You Already Are One) by Ian and Will Ferguson. LAWYER has suffered ressyllabification from law-yer to lawy-er, How to say sorry. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (33.41%) [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (2.67%) I think the only way ‘horrible’ could be an allophone of ‘goat’ is in accents where ‘goat’ is still a back rounded near monophthong, which isn’t the default in western speech, esp. I’ve got the Californian utter lack of [ɔ], replaced by [ɑ] or [o]. Or does /or/ follow an entirely different pattern? d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (79.83%) Someone mentioned the various pronunciations of “dollar”, but in my area it often comes out as “dah-wer” (the Philly accent). c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.97%) c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.89%) [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.25%) Identify a word you usually struggle with, and find a tv show, movie or YouTube video where a native speaker uses it in a sentence. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.35%) Why pronunciation differs . And if I had to equate the vowel of horrible with a non-r vowel, I’d definitely associate it with vowel of goat. as an example. Exactly! But what about ‘sorry?’ Here is where things get complicated. ], i bet she didnt actually change her natural accent, its just those give away words like ‘sorry’ that ID’d her as a Canadian, According to the Harvard Dialect Survey: e. other (3.20%). D: I’ve always been under the impression that DOLLAR was a pro-rounding environment, especially in non atlantic canadian accents. b. as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (11.37%) That I disagree with wholeheartedly. In the video below you can hear how these two words nearly rhyme. That’s one possible pronunciation. Hanyu Pinyin says it is i+ong. Linguists would cringe. has it right. (I’ll acknowledge an objection from the more linguistically advanced: you could make the case that in Western American accents, ‘-orr’ words like ‘horrible’ are merging with the vowel in ‘core,’ which can further be argued to be an allophone of the /o/ in ‘goat.’ Still, that doesn’t quite explain why /orr/ words have joined two different phonemic camps.). next time! Canadian English, Find a Job, Canadian Workplace Culture, Your Health in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration, 5 Stages of Culture shock, Important Work Skills in Canada, Body Language in Canada, Canadian Experience, Showing Respect at Work, Talking to your Doctor, Canadian Pronunciation, What Canadian Talk about, Speaking Politely in Canada, Canadian Communication Style, Canadian … [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (0.58%) AL, for me, lure, tour, contour and poor all rhyme as well, but do have the same sound as horrible, etc. Zhuyin Fuhao says it should be u*+eng. In Canada, meanwhile, all such /or/ words have the ‘aw’ vowel, including ‘sorry.’”. It seems widespread. (Note that lots of others in my area have poor as an “or” word). I posit that Americans have a FORCE-NORTH merger and Brits have a NORTH-FORCE merger. I will point out, however, that on most linguistic maps of the U.S. Proximity plays a big part in why pronunciation varies. The different ways Canadian and Americans say words. Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Canada. a. Before the onslaught of public school vocab lessons which taught me many new words in a FORCE-NORTH merged accent, I pronounced the two as [fo@rs] and [norT]. As for Canadian French swear words, you will notice that they mainly refer to Christian rites or objects. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.47%) Thirdly, as in American English, there may be little distinction if any between the STRUT and AGO vowels. So to me it sounds like hah-rer, ahrange, Flahrida. It should be noted that there is more than one type of Canadian English. The pun in the title derives from the fact that, for accents that make the distinction, ‘horribly’ and ‘sorry’ are pronounced with the ‘short-o’ in ‘l o t’ (i.e. Tomorrow and sorry are everyday words. I think this would be a nice way of making the contrast (at least in vowel term) clear. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (11.94%) In many American accents, ‘horrible,’ ‘Florida’ and ‘corridor’ are pronounced with the vowel in ‘flaw.’ But ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow’ and ‘tomorrow’ have the same vowel in ‘lot,’ as in British accents. My father pronounces it with the sore sound (he’s from Southern California), while my mother, siblings and I all pronounce it with the sorrow sound (we’re all Bay Area products). But some Canadian French words and expressions are local specialties. But then it shows NORTH as [O:] to match British NO(R)TH and THOUGHT. A nice near-minimal triple is safari-sorry-story. Question 1a: How do Canadians pronounce "eh?"? Americans who are cot-caught un-merged do NOT use the same vowel for “sort” and “sought.” Some Americans may use [O:r] like a rhotic Brit in “sort” but it’s an underlying /o@r/. Collection description. And curt and cater have the same vowel, but that’s not the same as a schwa. compare with New Jersey (the land of ”Flahrida, ahrange, hahrrible): 11. the first vowel in “Florida” Either I’m an atypical Canadian or the the vowel in “flaw” is pronounced differently in the US than it is in Canada. Without resyllabification, the cot-caught mergers would say LAH-yer. Meaning "large motor vehicle for … I should mention that Cambridge pronunciation dictionary SORT OF agrees with me on the LOT-THOUGHT-NORTH business. Some states where General American is spoken: Colorado: c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.68%) Without resyllabification, the cot-caught mergers would say LAH-yer. Why do Canadians pronounce "Sorry" as Sore-E? b. e. other (2.94%), Vermont: There is a case that "lurry" is the original pronunciation. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (3.11%) Yong could be seen as kind of like ee-OO-uhng. Spoiler alert: these loonies and toonies aren’t the same as that commonly known American childhood cartoon. “Sorry” seems to be modeled on “sorrow,” which fits in a neat little mini-set with borrow, tomorrow, etc, all of which use the START vowel. I’d add a “pure” rhyme (though without the y sound) as a 3rd possible pronunciation. e. other (0.67%), New Mexico: ‘Sorry’ would fall into the cot-caught and ‘Horrible’ into horse-hoarse, so it would seem that, unlike canadians, they do distinguish between the two. Pingback: This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words. He makes up with it by speaking french though xD [come to think of it, I didn’t bother to ask how he pronounces “sorry” or check for ‘bag/egg’ raising. If I were to use the vowel that I use in “flaw” in “sorry”, “borrow”, and “tomorrow”, I feel like the pronunciation would sound more American than Canadian. /stA:r.i/ and /stQ.ri/ become /stA:r.i/ and /stA:.ri/ which are both realized as [stAr.i ], “Courier” becomes “cur-i-er” or NURSE. I have seen, I have not observed widely divergent phonemic differences among (1962 central–Peoria not Lake Michigan) Illinois, Kansas, and (Kansas City) Missouri. S/ɑ/rry about that; I stand corrected–my idiolect. So to British, Australian, or New York ears, the Canadian syllables might sound uncomfortably close to ‘whore/hoar’ and ‘sore.’ It makes the cot-caught merged/unmerged baffling to a Brit, especially a non-rhotic one. Except some Irish speakers, but they have NORTH as LOT + R and not as THOUGHT + R. Celtic-area speakers are not good samples because they exhibit very little R-breaking or coloring or smoothing. That's why they said a Canadian accent. Maybe the french people. a. I’m far from an expert on these matters, but I feel like the “o” sound in “sorry” only exists before “r” in typical Canadian speech. b. Also, I don’t understand how group (1) is “merging” with core. If I had to guess, I would link the “horror” with “sorror” pronunciation in the bay area as a by-product of the different migration patters, where socal was more of a midlands/south midlands point, I know san francisco had a substantial amount of influx from families from the northeast, where “horror” can have the “sorrow” vowel. (Scottish English has identical vowels +/- R in TRAP-START LOT-NORTH KIT-DIRT DRESS-FERN STRUT-NURSE FACE-SQUARE GOAT-FORCE PRICE-wire MOUTH-sour cute-CURE). It occurs only under specific conditions: /0/ followed by r, the /ɔi/ diphthong, and (I think) when /0/ is followed by l. Being a fully-merged Californian, I don’t have a separate “aw” vowel, and use ɑ for all the words that might be ɔ or ɒ in another accent. c. as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (7.09%) A loonie, the Canadian $1 coin, gets its name from the picture of the Canadian bird, the loon, that appears on one side of the coin. And “fury” has the vowel of CURE. Any ideas? d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (87.57%) How to pronounce sorry. e. other (1.55%), Utah: None of this really explains, however, why Canadians went fully in one direction, but Americans didn’t. Pronunciation model: Canadian English. What do you mean by your dialect? Wiktionary does list that. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (2.31%) I’m half cot-caught merged but my true THOUGHT words like “call” and “straw” were [kQ:l] and [strQ:], I guess re-syllabification is the way to go. e. other (1.73%), Nevada: Brits re-syllabify EYE-dee-a to EYE-dee(r) and Yanks and Canucks change hurry and marry and merry and horrible and orange. Lucy Punch did a convincing American accent in ”Bad teacher”…I thought she was American until she pronounced -sorry- with a rounded vowel (”or)” which was enough for me to go to Wikipedia and see where she was from. (Congrats!). Canadians don’t have different words that mean “I’m sorry,” but they do have different meanings for the words, as indicated by things like inflection. what I called group (1). [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (7.25%) The question is, is one rendering favored by speakers who have a hard time with the /U/ or /y/ phone respectively? While French swear words are almost always related to sex or sexual behaviours. I’m American and I split those words into two groups like you say: (1) horrible, horror, porridge, sore, for, four [for me, poor does not sound the same — rather, it rhymes with lure, tour, contour]. d. as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (73.38%) e. other (1.35%), Arizona: ... see im canadian but i don't know how i pronounce it cause i never say sorry >=] 3 1. Is it “NORTH-i-ble” and “FORCE-ange”? /mE.ri/ /mE@r.i/ /m{.ri/ become /mE@r.i/, Merry and marry re-syllabifiy and become SQUARE. In my idiolect, [ɔ] is definitely an allophone of /o/. Question 1b: Is it a reasonable approximation of the Spanish pronunciation of the vowel e (as in, for example, bebé)? The Origins of the Pirate Accent, When Did Americans Stop "Talking British? Comment below! 11. the first vowel in “Florida” A larger number, 28 million people, … Or, better yet: her, who’re, hoar. b. For me (native near-RP), “safari” has the vowel of FAther (or START), “sorry” has the vowel of LOT and “story” has the vowel of FORCE. SIMPLE! The underlying phonology is initial+medial+final or i+u+eng. That being said, I don’t know enough about NIrish English to make any definitive statements, but my mum frequently said that the accent in the part of Southern Ontario where we lived seemed to be strongly influenced by Northern Irish English. The Hanyu Pinyin writing seems to endorse this. The native California sound is with horror as an “or” word. How to say Canadian French in English? [Speaking of rounding, most Canadians have a rounded vowel in DOLLAR except from males from Toronto or people in St. John’s NF, but Valley Girls, people from Pittsburgh and Boston round the DOLLAR vowel as well]. Learn more. I agree; the r vowels are different from the non-r vowels. [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (1.55%) Canadians say “sorry” an awful lot, but they rarely apologize. Canadians are also known for saying "sorry" a lot more than Americans. In the USA, it rhymes with "Ferrari". I’ve heard some Canadians use the ”are” vowel in -tomorrow- (but never in -sorry-). e. other (5.97%), Idaho: If so, that would be your accent or your idiolect, not your dialect. Peter, my point was that in my mind, there’s multiple correct pronunciations for “lure”. It is difficult for me to divorce the (1) sound from its ‘r’. Pronunciation of canadian with 2 audio pronunciations, 5 synonyms, 2 meanings, 11 translations, 44 sentences and more for canadian. The question for me is whether we use the “ar” sound (which is interchangeably [ɑɻ] or [äɻ]) or the “or” sound [oɻ]. In many types of British English, by contrast, ‘poor,’ ‘sore’ and ‘horrible’ can be pronounced with three entirely different vowels (although this is more commonly two in contemporary accents). I can’t account for every regional accent, but my impression is that for most, sorry has the ‘short-o’ in ‘lot,’ while horrible has an entirely different ‘aw’ sound ([ɔ] or [o]). Show more answers (9) [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (10.98%) so LAWYER is pronounced as if it were spelled LOYER, it rhymes with TOYER: ”One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler”. 1 1. the first vowel in “Florida” Cancel Create. You have other instances of smoothing like u+eng is “weng,” but du+eng is “dong” (with the sound of “put”). Dialect or not, the correct pronunciation of horror is “whore-er” as all dictionaries have it. Though it doesn’t match either of them. western pennsylvania accents], how do they deal with sorry-horrible? Canadian actors are made well aware of their accents while working in the U.S. because even a single word pronounced the wrong way is enough to stop filming. There are exceptions to this, in the Eastern United States, but for the most part /or/, /orr/, and /oor/ aren’t much distinguished on this side of the Atlantic. r/AskReddit is the place to ask and answer thought-provoking questions. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.49%) [] as in “ah” (“flah-ri-da”) (2.54%) lol. It may have been localized within the City, though. How about referees and broadcasters spending a couple of minutes on the pronunciation guide, then the domino effect should take over and everyone will have it mastered. 11.the first vowel in “Florida” Hello. No, it definitely doesn’t match ‘flaw’ as it is in most American accents. As a Canadian, I'd like to apologize for not making it clear how to spell sorry in Canadian. The Online Etymological Dictionary gives this origin: "a truck; a long, flat wagon," 1838, British railroad word, probably from verb lurry "to pull, tug"(1570s), of uncertain origin. Relevance. Public. Like roughly the same size as all of Europe big. Most Anglo- Canadians (English speaking) don't believe they sound any different than most central-west coast Americans but I'm "Sorey" to say there are some very obvious differences that you may not be aware of eh In Standard Canadian English, there is no distinction between the vowels in horse and hoarse. I agree, though, with your observation that the flaw vowel seems to come closer to the group 2 vowel than the group one vowel. I suspect that pronouncing lure as /lɔr/ is common in England, where the poor/pour merger is prevalent. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of more than 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder of the population were native speakers of Canadian French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). However, it’s fairly close to the ‘l-colored’ vowel in ‘ball’ for at least some American speakers, which is why if it weren’t for ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow,’ etc, I would just assume it to be an allophone (of either the ‘thought’ or ‘lot’ vowels). It shows that people who do have THOUGHT in the USA use /Q:/ a unique phone. In Canada, meanwhile, all such /or/ words have the ‘aw’ vowel, including ‘sorry.’  Why is ‘sorry’ an odd word out in America but not for our neighbors to the North? By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. b. For me, “aw” is [ɑ] and the “ball” vowel is the same as the “flaw” vowel. Canadian English, Find a Job, Canadian Workplace Culture, Your Health in Canada, Citizenship and Immigration, 5 Stages of Culture shock, Important Work Skills in Canada, Body Language in Canada, Canadian Experience, Showing Respect at Work, Talking to your Doctor, Canadian Pronunciation, What Canadian Talk about, Speaking Politely in Canada, Canadian Communication Style, Canadian … In Canada, "sorry" rhymes with "story". a. as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (4.95%) It’s true, pre-r vowels are their own thing in American English, as are pre-l vowels. So, purr, or poor (when different from pore) or pore. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (80.60%) a. **LAX**, “Hurry” becomes “hur-y” or NURSE. Some Californians use the ”or” vowel in -sorry, tomorrow-. Canadians (or those familiar with the Canadian accent), may recognize the weak pun in today’s title: ‘I’m horribly sorry‘ can sound to someone from the UK or elsewhere a bit like ‘I’m hoarably sorey.’ (I’m using ‘hoar’ to be family friendly; if you replace the syllable with the more illicit word that sounds exactly like ‘hoar,’ it will result in a much more disturbing pun). Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog: http://dialect.redlog.net/staticmaps/q_11.html, This Week’s Language Blog Roundup | Wordnik ~ all the words, Arrr, Matey! People joke that if you step on a Canadians foot, they will say sorry to you! I’ve only heard Northeasterners pronounce horror and orange with (what is to me) the “ar” sound. Very good points all around, but I think the truth is FAR FAR simpler than most of you are realizing. a. You can hear Denis pronouncing his own name at this link. The pun in the title derives from the fact that, for accents that make the distinction, ‘horribly’ and ‘sorry’ are pronounced with the ‘short-o’ in ‘lot’ (i.e. If anything, for me the vowel in flaw sounds more like the ‘o’ in group (2). canadian pronunciation of sorry It seems widespread.I think this regrouping phenomenon can only happen in languages with diphthongs or triphthongs.My Mandarin is very weak, but it seems that there are two competing pronunciations for consonant+iong (in Hanyu Pinyin).Yong could be seen as kind of like ee-OO-uhng. Do you have a Canadian accent quiz. Joking aside, though, what’s going on here? b. In many American accents, ‘horrible,’ ‘Florida’ and ‘corridor’ are pronounced with the vowel in ‘flaw.’ But ‘sorry,’ ‘borrow’ and ‘tomorrow’ have the same vowel in ‘lot,’ as in British accents. 11. the first vowel in “Florida” There is no way to test this, though, since no one in the world has a PALM-LOT-THOUGHT-NORTH-FORCE separation. Also, seems worth noting, sorry and other such words have the same vowel (I assume in most of the U.S.; certainly for me) as some -ar words, like car, par, bar. Favorite Answer. a. a. A truly Canadian Apology to the USA, courtesy of Rick Mercer from This Hour Has 22 Minutes, CBC Television: . But despite language being affected by isolated communities, multiple official languages, extensive immigration, and American influence, we can usually get our point across to one another. Yeah I wonder if that is a typo, because the premise is that the word sorry would be pronounced as sore-y and that it is typical of Canadians to pronounce it that way, as oppose to the American pronounciation “Saw-ri”, correction sah-ry, not saw-ry which seems too rounded. Hence about comes out "ow followed by schwa e. I am sorry that I am not able to use the linguistic analytical symbols since it has been too long since that was part of my repertoire. It's sorry. What a number of people call the Bay Area accent as sounding like the Northeast is the result of the huge influx of people from the Northeast to the area, especially San Francisco. Slightly off-topic, but have you tried anywhere to contrast two accents (eg British RP and General American) by showing two IPO vowel charts with, in each case, the ‘live’ vowels circled? Write "désolé" if you're male and "désolée" if you're female. [o:] as in “flow” (“flow-ri-da”) (11.59%) e. other (0.84%). What other types of videos do you want to see? Horrible and orange both become FORCE, just as trawicks post in the title. I think the r vowels are their own thing and have their own sets of mergings, quite separate from the other vowels. d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (86.76%) So it’s nothing about that specific word. The words origin, Florida, horrible, quarrel, warren, as well as tomorrow, sorry, sorrow, etc. The differences between French from France and French from Canada are mainly in pronunciation. So for ‘general’ western speech, we can take it to be cot-caught merged and horse-hoarse merged. Listen to the pronunciation a few times, and then record yourself speaking it. However, I don’t think group (1) sounds like flaw, at least not the way I pronounce flaw. 19 Answers. /hɒɹɪbli/ and /sɒɹi/). I’ve heard a fake American accent say “I went to cot (court).” I think Americans can use [O:] or [o:] but to prevent confusion, use /o:r/ for the phoneme which is closer to the original /o@r/ of FORCE. This way is endorsed by the semi-syllabary Zhuyin Fuhao. On thing that I’m surprised by in Ellen’s comment is that for her, lure doesn’t rhyme with pure but with poor. c. [] as in “saw” (“flaw-ri-da”) (1.27%) I’ve only heard “lawyer” with the THOUGHT vowel (i.e. Or do sore and core not have the same vowel for everyone? d. [] as in “sore” (“flore-i-da”) (83.56%) Unlike other Canadian/American differences, this can’t be explained by vowel shifts or loaned British pronunciations. Until age 30, I lived in 4 midwestern U.S. states: Illinois (till age 1), Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and have lived in the eastern U.S. in central Pennsylvania for 20 years. a. Anonymous. I’m Anthony St. George on location here in Washington. It lists both /lʊər/ and /lɔr/, neither of which rhyme with “pure” for me. You have reached the maximum limit. Do you mean in your individual speech? Pronunciation of Canadian French with 2 audio pronunciations, 1 synonym, 1 meaning, 15 translations and more for Canadian French. **TENSE**, “Sorry” becomes “sahr-y” or START. Similarly, court is halfway in between coat and caught. 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