- Out with “oot.” No more “aboot.” Canada is talking with a New Speak. In a linguistic pivot called the Canadian Vowel Shift, we are pronouncing “God” more like “gawd,” “bagel” like “bahgel,” “pillow” like “pellow,” and “sorry” less like “sore-y.” The word “Timbit” is becoming “Tembet,” and “Dan slipped on the staircase” now sounds more like “Don” “slept” on it. First discovered in 1995, the new vowels are contagious, spreading rapidly from Victoria to St. John’s, where linguists are mapping the frequency of people’s voices and using ultrasounds to track their tongue and lip placement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Shift sparse article but does have more specifics most noticably in that it uses IPA instead of different letters that could be any number of real sounds and why (as so far known) the shift is happening
Trahno it is. Usually I spell it Tranno though. I actually get slightly annoyed everytime I hear anyone pronounce the second T. Well maybe not annoyed but I can tell if someone is local or not by the way the pronounce the city name. And despite what Drake says I will not be calling it the 6 anytime soon. I have spent lots of time in LA and I think that the Southern Ontario accent is a lot like the Southern California accent. Funny that they also make the comparison.
I don't know about this. I've been living here my whole life and I like, have never, ever, like noticed people sounding more like valley girls? On a more serious note, I'm going to be very careful about how I say "bagel" from now on.