But how do you pronounce it?
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When the name is mentioned in pop culture (funny sounding word, lots of punchy, komedy "K" sounds) The speaker, tends to pronounce all the vowel sounds. Local speakers of skinglish only pronnounce the soft 'A' in 'skatch' all other vowels are pronnounced as apostrophes, S'sKatch'w'n. Not entirely silent vowels, I'd call them more 3 quarter silent vowels, muted due to the speed and cadence this word is mushmouthed into conversation. It's four syllables but spat out in between 1.75 and 2.5 syllables. Saying the whole thing interrupts the rhythm of prairie speech, so we just say most of it.
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo I pronounce it like it's spelled and spell it like it's pronounced. Doesn't seem that hard?
What I can never remember is if it is Roughriders or Rough Riders.
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@facw Sask all one word, other riders were the Rough Riders. The other team folded and came back but the Sask rider would never allow them to re-use the name, thereby denying the world something that is funny.
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@ClassicDatsunDebate Exactly! trying way too hard there, gonna get copenhagen everywhere if you say the whole thing.
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo Had a coworker who grew up and lived in that town named for the...well...male accessory...and pronounced the province name exactly as you described...so that's how I've said it for the last 20 years.
He also taught me that the Alberta capital is pronounced 'cal-GARY', not 'CAL-guh-ree'.
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@Roundbadge My take was more CALgurry, but have never lived there. It's like the "ABOOT" accent we don't have out west, east of a certain line there's an extra vowel sound that's not written and is only sorta there, like the secret colours under violet in a bright rainbow, out of the visible spectrum but you can still percieve it. Aboot is more like abeawt? there's no simple way to type this without going all vowel fronting/raising linguistincs aboot it.
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@Roundbadge And I forgot the capital is Edmonton, the cool kids are in Calgurry though.
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo Well, fudge. I try to show my SMRTs and still fail. Oh, well.
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo Heard about those as well. He was an interesting dude. He was born in New Orleans, Louisana...then moved to Prince Albert and lived there for a while with his mom, then moved to Ohio with his dad....Irish heritage with a Greek name. I mean, he was just a mess. Funny guy and an awesome dude though.
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@Roundbadge Only half failed, when it's a new country the capital will be in Calgary, too many hippies in Edmonton they'll ruin it with their drums and love and stuff like that.
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@Roundbadge I'm just trying to hear the combo NewOrleans/Northern bush accent, that'd be unique. A small chunk of Saskatchewan near but not including Estevan was once a very far corner of Spanish Louisiana.
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@ClassicDatsunDebate Tronno.
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo Sus-cat-chew-on.
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@aremmes This, or SAS'CATCH'ewWAHN are the common 'outside the big rectangle' pronunciations. It's a lot of word, it's very word.
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Do you ever add "Kenobi" to the end or just refer to the province as "Ben" for short?
My son calls the capital "Sus Cartoons"
Great granny was from there originally. Then they left for the tropics -- St. Cloud, Minnesota.
Generally just sh*treplying to things.
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@ash78 said in But how do you pronounce it?:
Great granny was from there originally. Then they left for the tropics -- St. Cloud, Minnesota
They moved way down south..
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo I think I've always said it something like Ss'catch-u-win, which seems way off
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@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo said in But how do you pronounce it?:
S'sKatch'w'n.
This is pretty much how I'm inclined to say it, but there's a temptation to shorten it to 'Skatch (even though I've never heard anyone call it that).
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@ash78 'Toon'Town.
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@Urambo-Tauro They'd say 'sask'. The correct demonym is 'Saskatchewanian' wich is an even bigger mouthful. I use 'Saskweijan' but nobody else does.
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@ranwhenparked that's roughly correct.
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@siennaman said in But how do you pronounce it?:
@ash78 said in But how do you pronounce it?:
Great granny was from there originally. Then they left for the tropics -- St. Cloud, Minnesota
They moved way down south..
SPF 45 territory. Funny thing was my grandpa (born on a farm near there) married a Croatian lady after the war, so every other person in our family is either ghost white or Mediterranean.
Certain questions about paternity have been humorously brought up in our family...
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