What do Canadians pronounce differently than Americans?

Canadians and Americans may pronounce these words differently

	USA	Canada
Niche	“nitch”	“neesh”
Toronto	“toronto”	“tronno”
Produce	“praw-duce”	“pro-duce”
Caramel	“carml”	“care-a-mell”

Do Canadians say about differently?

“The Canadians do pronounce it differently. Americans hear this and they know it’s different—they’re hearing a difference but they don’t know exactly what that difference is.” Americans do not have the Canadian diphthong present in the word “about,” which makes it hard to understand.

Do Canadians say aboot instead of about?

A point of clarification: Canadians do not say aboot. Canadian English features something called Canadian Raising, which basically means that the diphthong in “now” is raised before t, s or other voiceless consonants (i.e. before words like about and house).

How do Canadians pronounce the word out?

Let’s make this quick and easy since we’re pretty sure this cliché originated with the TV-Show South Park: Canadians do not pronounce “out” and “about” as “oot” and “aboot.” Instead, Canadians raise the OU vowel sound slightly (meaning that the tongue sits higher in the mouth), so the words “out” and “about” sound …

Do Canadians sound like Minnesota?

The Minnesota accent doesn’t sound anything like a “Canadian” accent. And there is no “Canadian accent” because there are many accents in Canada – The worlds 2nd largest country. Canadian accents are mostly British, French & Native in origin.

Does everyone in Minnesota have an accent?

Minnesotans share roughly the same Upper Midwest accent with Iowa and Wisconsin. Even if some native speakers don’t notice it, there are people out there who make it their business to notice. Wolter isn’t the only one. maybe a few older people in the area have (accents like that).”