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Distinguishing a Western Canadian accent and an Eastern Canadian accent may be as simple as the pronunciation of these five words: milk, pasta, Mazda, template, and Vancouver.

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@cal291

4 months ago

Born and raised in Metro Vancouver, living on Vancouver Island for 15 years. Here's how my own speech matches up to what you're saying Western Canadians say:
1. Absolutely not (personally hate when people say "melk", so I guess I hear people say it enough to bother me?)
2. I use both.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Absolutely yes! You can tell if someone's not from here when they don't use the invisible "g", although most people don't even realize we say it like that.

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@SgtStuka

4 months ago

Living in Alberta, originally from Comox on Vancouver Island.
1. Same as you, Milk
2. Yeah I say it PA-sta
3. Yeah I say it MA-zda,
4. Same as you
5. Why did I never noticed I say it like Vang-Couver!? It feels so weird now! WTF! I can not unhear the Vang not Van now! It's true, forcing the Van instead of Vang is weird, but why do we ang it? This broke my brain.

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@2ndKidd

4 months ago

"Vang-couver" giving off that Torontonian "Tor-ono" engery lol

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@Gummerfly

4 months ago

From Vangcouver, 5 is spot on :)
2, 3, and 4 I feel like I hear both ways around here but hard to congfirm.

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@quackquackitsme2198

4 months ago

Lived in Coquitlam until I was 8 years old and then moved to Ontario - can confirm I still say “Vangcouver”! I guess some things really have just stuck! 😂

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@Vincent-vn7xo

2 months ago

My accent is so Americanized now 😭 😭 i use to say “vangcouver” when I was a kid but ever since I been living down in the US I have adapted to the “normal” way of pronouncing all of these word

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@Shawnasart76597

4 months ago

From Alberta
1. Same as you
2. Different from you
3. Different from you
4. Same as you
5. Same as you

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@KeiFlox

4 months ago

Born in Vangcouver, you got me lol

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@stephanieklus196

4 months ago

Manitoban:
1. E
2. W
3. W
4. E/W - I’ve used both depending on where it is in a sentence
5. W though never really realized it until now

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@cdogdeluxe6037

1 month ago

That gave me a good laugh. I’m a born and raised westerner and everyone one of these were spot on

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@PallidusCarnifex

4 months ago

Vancouver Island, here. Nailed it.

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@Giaayokaats

4 months ago

Born Edmonton, raised Calgary. Family originates in the Winnipeg area.

1) Same as you
2) I oscillate between the two pronunciations
3) Western Canadian
4) Western Canadian
5) Same as you

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@ApathyDude

4 months ago

Born London, moved to Ottawa valley (rural) at 6, moved to Ottawa for college. For me:
1. E
2. W
3. W
4. E
5. E
Rural Ottawa and Ottawa valley say Malk as well as Pellow instead of Pillow and say Nap Sack when I say Backpack.
My wife's family is from New Brunswick and they say the same as you but also a 1000 other things differently. They say rhuf instead of roof, rhum instead of room, ambleeance instead of ambulance, close instead of clothes, and tons of others.

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@BeatriceVC

4 months ago

This is so interesting! I speak English as a second language in Québec, French being my first, and I use all (supposedly) Western Canadian pronunciations, except for milk. Even got the “Vang-couver” one!

Pasta with the “A” instead of “Ah” also makes more sense to me since that is how we pronounce the letter A in French. It’s also how we would pronounce it in other latin languages such as Spanish or Italian - which makes even more sense with the latter, considering the origin of the meal 😜

I guess I follow the same logic for Mazda. As for “template” being “templ-et”, it must be something about personal preference

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@atsernov

4 months ago

I've lived in the Vancouver area for nearly 30 years. I'm ESL with native-like English. I say them all like you do. I've heard 2,3,4 and 5 pronounced the alternate way.

I've never heard anyone call milk, "melk." Anywhere...

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@mylesgarden

4 months ago

i'm in ontario but,
1. milk
2. pass-ta
3. mazda
4. temp-late
5. vancouver

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@enak0e

4 months ago

From BC.... yeah spot on LOL

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@necksquad3222

4 months ago

Not Canadian, but I grew up in Eastern Washington. I grew up saying "melk" for some reason, but at some point I started saying "milk." I say pasta and Mazda with an "ah" like in "father." I say "template" the Western Canadian way. I say "Vancouver" the Eastern Canadian way.

I also grew up saying "pop" but now I use "pop" and "soda" interchangeably.

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@spibow

4 months ago

Albertan - Milk ("melk" drives me batty) PAsta, MAzda, Templit (Though I do also say tem-plate, strangely), and I definitely have that hidden "g" in Vancouver. I imagine it's a similar tell for Vancouverites as the pronunciation of Calgary is for us here.

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@Visceralreality

4 months ago

yeah, mostly accurate. Lifelong BC guy. 45+ yrs in the Vancouver area. I just realized that I do indeed say all of those words as you described, with the possble exception of Vancouver, I dont hear the 'ang' you seem to be enunciating, however its possible that I am just missing it.

All 4 other words are exact matches...

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