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Do you say "eh" often, eh?
hmm ... you rhymes with few for me ... as does new ...i.e. Does "new" rhyme with "you" or "few" for you?
People I know from Calgary say "hey", not "eh". That's always really stood out to me. I've asked them about it, but they don't notice they do it, so they don't know if it's truly a Calgary-ism or not.
hmm ... you rhymes with few for me ... as does new ...
... not sure how y'all differ between you and few (I don't have a Canadian accent BTW).
One last thing on the California similarity thing: is it just me or was Bob & Doug McKenzie using "like" as a hedge-word quite a bit - even before Zappa's Valley Girl or Fast Times at Ridgemont High, etc. was popularizing it around North America in the early 80s? Or was "Like" in fairly common at that time already? I was only born in 1980 so I can't speak to how people were speaking before then.
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
she is a stickler for correct grammar and pronunciation. Schedule is pronounced "shed-jule", not "sked-jule". "Adver-tis-ment", not "Adver-tize-ment", etc.