On Canadian Speech Patterns.

Oct 07, 2010 13:38

Interestingly enough, though I currently live very close to the Canadian border, I'm constantly amazed at the fact that I can't really gauge people as being Canadian until they say certain words.

Today, it was project. As in a project to work on together.

He kept saying it pro-ject. Like, professional.

I was always taught to say it pra-ject, unless I was attempting to speak about projecting my voice through the room.

Funny how all it takes is one vowel, and your brain says: "Ah. Canada."
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