An Okanagan drawl?
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An Okanagan drawl?
Two UBC professors have embarked on a project to discover if there is a regional accent. The study is dubbed DRAWL for Determining Regional Accents With Literature.
Former Vernon resident and UBC music proffesor Bob Pritchard says he noticed that some of his students pronounced Vancouver with a 'G' sound after the 'N'.
"I had 80 students in my class and I noticed they were all pronouncing it that way, I asked them their hometowns and they were all from the Okanagan," Pritchard said.
I noticed years ago that people growing up IN Vancouver (like myself) pronounced it VaNG-couver and visitors pronounced it VaN-couver.
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Re: An Okanagan drawl?
Who pays the salaries of the two professors doing this? hopefully no one because I'm sure they could be putting their minds to better endeavors.
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Re: An Okanagan drawl?
Grew up in VANcouver, never heard anyone say VANGcouver.
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Any drawl is a result of poor genetics from alberta.
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kidpiglet wrote:Grew up in VANcouver, never heard anyone say VANGcouver.
same here
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Re: An Okanagan drawl?
I currently live in Vancouver and hear it often. More often than not, actually.
I hear it most often from younger people, especially young women. They say it like "Vangceuver?"
It's a fairly recent thing.
I hear it most often from younger people, especially young women. They say it like "Vangceuver?"
It's a fairly recent thing.
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I've heard it called Hongcouver, but not Vangcouver
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that goes back at least 30 yearsRVThereYet wrote:I've heard it called Hongcouver, but not Vangcouver
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common_sense_guy wrote:Who pays the salaries of the two professors doing this? hopefully no one because I'm sure they could be putting their minds to better endeavors.
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Bigjohn69 wrote:Any drawl is a result of poor genetics from alberta.
Perhaps it's due to BC's inferior (to Alberta) education system.
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Well they teach with Phonetics in School don't they?
Johnny yells Oh look A frickan Elephant... (African)
What do you expect.
Johnny yells Oh look A frickan Elephant... (African)
What do you expect.
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common_sense_guy wrote:Who pays the salaries of the two professors doing this? hopefully no one because I'm sure they could be putting their minds to better endeavors.
I'm thinking the same thing .... But hey , with out these "geniuses" we wouldn't have the torture of the English language that is "Ebonics" ...
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Never ever paid any attention to it, but now I'm conscious of it, I do hear it quite a bit.
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common_sense_guy wrote:Who pays the salaries of the two professors doing this? hopefully no one because I'm sure they could be putting their minds to better endeavors.
Sounds much like what I'd envision an NDP make work project to be.
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Good luck finding a test group. Most people aren't from around here.
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