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Canadian English....Diphthongs Please
note: the words and symbols below refer to the British English sounds. They
are only provided for comparison. Many of the Canadian sounds are quite different! |
| coat, boat, stole, bowl, old, roll, toe, no * | ||
| fear, hear, ear, beer, weir, mere, subsidiary | ||
| fume, cute, you, newt, queue | ||
| face, raise, amazing, straight, hate | ||
| fine, behind, line, kind, eye, I, my, sigh | ||
| foul, about, flower, out, now, ouch! | ||
| foil, boy, toil, enjoy | ||
| truer, sewer, bluer, doer | ||
| one, wonder, worry, once | ||
| * Note : the famous Canadian "about" (with the 'o' spoken between [e] and a schwa) is in fact only pronounced in this way by a minority of Canadian English speakers in the vicinity of Newfoundland. |
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Our warmest thanks go to ...
| Speaker | Geographical origin | Date of recording | Approx age |
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Melissa Forhan Jeannine MacDonald |
Vancouver Hallifax, Nova Scotia |
Nov 17, 2000 March 9, 2001 |
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