Difference Between American and Canadian Accent

American vs Canadian Accent

美国和加拿大口音之间的差异是由于其他语言对英语的影响而发生的。North America是一个continentmostly made up byCanadain the North and US to its south.墨西哥is the only other country having some significance in size further down south. Canada and US have a very long border from East to West of the continent and English is the language spoken in both countries. Those living close to the border speak the same English, and virtually no difference in the口音. However, as one moves from the border upwards, especially in the Quebec Province of Canada, the difference in accent gets enhanced because of the French influence and French being the official language in the province.语调from another language and some other differences make Americans make fun of Canadian English. Let us take a closer look at these differences between Canadian and American accents.

What is Canadian Accent?

The Canadian accent is the way, especially Americans refer to the way, the Canadians pronounce English. First, let us see the au sound. The words containing au sound are pronounced differently by Canadian speakers. If you are from US and listening to a commentary on a hockey match by a Canadian, you would feel that he said aboot when in reality, he said about. The same accent comes to play when he speaks house as you get to hear something like hoose and not house. As far as the Canadian accent is concerned, they appear to an American ear as more clipped that most Americans sound. It looks like a Scottish influence over the Canadians.

Also, then there is the use of the sound ‘eh.’ Canadians make this sound in between pauses just like Aussies when they sound ‘ay.’ If you hear a Canadian for any length of time, you are bound to hear him making this sound ‘eh’ many a number of times. Canadians pronounce the last letter of the alphabet Z as Zed the way British do.

What is American Accent?

American accent is the way Americans pronounce words in the English language. If you take the au sound, Americans pronounce it as it is without a change.

有些人认为美国人从不发出“ EH”的声音。如果有的话，美国人在停顿之间说“你知道”，以强调一种观点。但是，一些美国人很少在演讲中使用EH。但是，他们永远不会像加拿大人一样使用EH。
字母Z的最后一个字母在我们中发音为Zee。

Some Americans do not think of Canadians highly and believe Canadian culture and their personality to be inferior to those of Americans. However, this is just not the case with both countries being inseparable on lots of counts, including culture.

Many a time, Americans tend to drop ‘t’s from their words, and they seem rather lazy to speak out the full word. In contrast, Canadians speak English very clearly and crisply. If you hear American say water, you will hear worder instead of water many times. When saying batteries, you would hear something like badderies instead of batteries that is very confusing for people from other countries. The most simple word HATE becomes HA-Y-D when you hear it from an American. Thus, there are times when American English sounds weird, and there are times when Canadian English sounds weird. However, most of the times, there is no major difference between the American and the Canadian English.

What is the difference between American and Canadian Accent?

•AU声音：

•盟以加拿大英语成为OO。

• Americans pronounce the au sound as it is.

• Use of Eh:

• Canadians make use of eh just like Americans make use of You Know.

然而,一些美国人也使用嗯非常their speech.

• Letter Z:

• Canadians pronounce the letter z as zed.

• However, Zed becomes Zee in US.

•啊声音：

• Canadians tend to stick with the rounded pronunciation just like British English in words such as God, not, lot, etc.

•美国人倾向于用许多单词来宣告这封信，例如在上帝，不是，批次等的词语中。

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1. Canada day paradebyMarty555(CC BY-SA 3.0)
2. American people通过Pixabay（公共领域）