Canadian Accent Test
Answer Key Below
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- Does Caught rhyme with Cot?
- Yes
- No/Not really
- All Canadians have the Caught-Cot merger
- Do the words dawn and don sound the same?
- Yes
- No/Not really
- Do the words writer and rider sound the same?
- Yes
- No/Not really
- Due to Canadian Raising these words sound different.
- Do the words father and bother rhyme?
- Yes
- No
- How are you more likely to pronounce the word houses?
- Howziz
- Housis
- Due to Canadian Raising the ou sound will be different
- Which way are you more likely to pronounce the word pasta?
- Paw-sta
- Pa-sta
- Canadians are way more likely than americans to use flat A's
- Which way are you more likely to pronounce the word mazda?
- Mawz-da
- Mazz-da
- Canadians are way more likely than americans to use flat A's
- Which way are you more likely to casually say the word sorry?
- Sore-ee
- Sar-ee
- Which way are you more likely to casually say the word borrow?
- Bore-row
- Bar-row
- Which way are you more likely to pronounce the word semi?
- Sem-ee
- Sem-eye
- How do you pronounce asphalt?
- Ass-phalt
- Ash-phalt
- Canadians are unique in that a large amount of them pronounce this word as ash-phalt
- Which way are you more likely to pronounce the word Pecan?
- Pee-can
- Pee-cahn
- Once again the flat A makes the first option more common in Canada
- does the thing you put flowers in, a vase, rhyme with maze?
- Yes
- No
- If you were to casually use the word milk in a conversation, would it sound very close to melk?
- Yes
- No/Not really
- The canadian shift causes the I in milk to shift to a E sound. Common in most of Canada and more common among girls.
