Note by @fastfinge

Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

Are all the American newsreaders (any of those talking about the UK anyway) calling Andy Burnham 'Burn Ham?' Like they say 'Birming Ham?'
Also, Fulham.
Please tell me you don't say 'Full-Ham?'
😂

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@FreakyFwoof One of the Canadian announcers during the world cup did, in fact, say full-ham when talking about the history of a player.

Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

@fastfinge Canadians although physically closer to the US, are more I think culturally closer to the UK, so that is an unacceptable outcome and I shall personally throw a box of cheese at his knees so he doesn't do that ever again.

Human after all @humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@FreakyFwoof @fastfinge The can't say Secondary either its Second Dairy

Human after all @humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@FreakyFwoof @fastfinge I knew a very wealthy and quite snobby member of the Filipino elite and she wanted to go shopping in Deben Hams and I didn't like her so I let her say it in public

Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

@humanhorseshoes @fastfinge Hahaha lovely

Human after all @humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@FreakyFwoof @fastfinge I worked with a woman from London, Ontario which is really close to Detroit and has what to the untrained ear is an "American" accent. Until she got angry and her Canadian accent came out in full effect. Dunno aboot you guys but I don't find angry Canadians to be that scary

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@humanhorseshoes @FreakyFwoof It's hard to be frightening when you have to start off by saying sorry for being angry.

Human after all @humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@fastfinge @FreakyFwoof sorry

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@FreakyFwoof Depends. Canadians who were raised here and grew up rural are actually way more sheltered than Amerricans. Because Canada! Is! Huge! If you live in a town of a thousand, that's hundreds of KM away from anywhere, you can live your entire life never leaving Canada and never encountering someone who isn't Canadian, until you go to Toronto or some other Canadian city. I think the difference is Canadians don't think of ourselves the way Americans do, and don't proudly try to be sheltered the way they do; it just happens. But it does mean that oddly, people who weren't born and raised in Canada are more likely to go for the British/commonwealth way of saying things because they're aware that it's the "correct" way in Canada, whereas people born and raised in rural Canada are likely to say things the American way because it's what they've heard on TV and they aren't even aware of any other way to say it.

Andre Louis @FreakyFwoof@universeodon.com

@fastfinge OO that's really quite interesting and it makes sense.