Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada - Page 50

SignalHillHiker · #**981** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 2:58 AM**

It's fine. He doesn't have the vocabulary but he's fine.

FrAnKs · #**982** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 3:01 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

It's fine. He doesn't have the vocabulary but he's fine.

Ahahah ... well, what is speaking a language if you don't have the vocabulary ? I mean, keywords are the key !

SignalHillHiker · #**983** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 3:03 AM**

Oui, mais tu peut essayer avec pas un... je ne sais pas comment dire en francais... vocabulary. Tu peut comprends tout que j'ecrit ici, oui? Avec les mistakes et anglais?

FrAnKs · #**984** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 3:13 AM**

Vocabulary = Vocabulaire
Error = Erreur

As simple as this

All loanwords.

SignalHillHiker · #**985** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 3:16 AM**

Merci beaucoup! But you see, it's only that confusing for us. We can still understand perfectly what he means. It's just... he can only speak in a shallow way, and he takes forever.

Acajack · #**986** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 3:22 AM**

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Ok well, not as good as Pauline Marois

Interestingly enough, although not from there, Pauline Marois also lived in the West Island for many decades, although she moved to a condo in Old Montreal a year or two ago.

kwoldtimer · #**987** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 4:04 AM**

Neither here nor there, really, but I find Kathleen Wynne speaks halting but credible French (with a heavy Anglo accent). Certainly better than if she had just Ontario high school French.

kool maudit · #**988** Posted **Nov 11, 2014, 8:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Le premier sceau je tir était un poulet et je tué qui avec un bâton

quoi the fuck?

SignalHillHiker · #**989** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 10:33 PM**

Reading this list:

http://www.tickld.com/x/33-things-am...nada-seriously

Do any of you actually say zed? It's zee to me. And I've never heard zed spoken before. Not that I asked people to say the alphabet on the mainland.

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I encountered something I've not heard before the other night at a family dinner.

My aunt (from the Quidi Vidi neighbourhood of St. John's) uses to to denote place even in sentences where I have NEVER used it, nor heard it used.

She asked my cousin about a painting at her house and said:

"You knows that painting you've got to your house..."

Boris2k7 · #**990** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 10:42 PM**

It's zee if I'm reading the alphabet, zed if I'm trying to be a smartass.

ciudad_del_norte · #**991** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 10:47 PM**

I say zed...and I actually notice when people say zee. Sounds silly to me for some reason, except in the alphabet song where zed is just so sadly awkward.

Not a word I say often though...

Nathan · #**992** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:00 PM**

Basically only use zed, and in all stats and calculus classes everyone always said zed. That's the place I used it the most.

SignalHillHiker · #**993** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:01 PM**

Oh, O.K., so it does exist then.

Right on.

This is probably the weirdest thing I've ever had a preference on... but I prefer zed. It implies closure, period, the end, final. It's a perfect way to say the last letter of our alphabet.

BretttheRiderFan · #**994** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:56 PM**

ALWAYS zed.

Aylmer · #**995** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:57 PM**

Never 'zee', always 'zed'. I guess I've just always heard 'zed' and 'zee' sounds foreign to my ears.

kwoldtimer · #**996** Posted **Nov 19, 2014, 11:57 PM**

Always zed.

BretttheRiderFan · #**997** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 12:05 AM**

Sounds like a sketch from 22 Minutes to me.

Acajack · #**998** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 11:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Reading this list:

http://www.tickld.com/x/33-things-am...nada-seriously

Do any of you actually say zed? It's zee to me. And I've never heard zed spoken before. Not that I asked people to say the alphabet on the mainland.

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This is extremely surprising as Newfoundland is generally the biggest place for Britishisms in Canada by far. Stuff like saying tins for cans is much more common in Nfld.

Are you sure it's not just you?

I'd be very surprised if people in southern Ontario and the lower mainland of BC still say zed quite predominantly (as they do) and Newfoundlanders say zee.

This merits further inquiry.

Metro-One · #**999** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 11:32 AM**

Born and raised in the Lower Mainland, has always been zed for me and everyone I know.

A locla popular radio station even use to be called "Zed" 95.3.

Also all cars with "Z" in them are advertised and pronounced as "zed" from what I have seen.

"350 Zed" sounds so much more cool than "350 Zee"

Same with "BMW Zed 4" over "BMW Zee 4"

Zee just sounds so lazy and slurred to my ears.

Acajack · #**1000** Posted **Nov 20, 2014, 11:32 AM**

For me it's always zed. I went to English school a lot and grew up in a number of provinces in central and eastern Canada.

The vast majority of English-speaking Canadians seem to say zed except maybe for Anglo-Quebecers and people in places like Windsor and Niagara Falls. And even in the latter two places zed and zee duke it out.

Anglo-Quebecers seem to say zee more given that there seems to be a need to distinguish English from French. In French it's zed too. So it registers in people's minds that if it's zed in French it's gotta be something different in English. Hence the use of zee. Francophones in Quebec who learn English also tend to use zee. I suspect that lio says zee. I'll have to check with my kids but I am pretty sure I have heard them say zee.

You also get this in spelling in Quebec where center is often used in English as opposed to centre which is the official Canadian spelling as well. Centre is assumed to be French and so people think in English it has to be different. Hence center.