Key traits of the Saskatchewan accent?

Question

Preferably the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan accent.

Like how is it different from the rest of Canada. Anyone from Saskatoon or Canada that can help?

Please & thanks.

Answer 1

We don't have accents, we have different words for things.

A hoody (a sweater with a hood and a pocket in the front) is called a BUNNY HUG.

A "fifth" of vodka is called a MICKEY.

When we want to buy alcohols for minors we call it PULLING for them.

One thing I know for sure is that when we are using the word "semi" as in "semi sweet chocolate" or "semi driver", we say "seh-mee" instead of "sem-eye" like a lot of Americans do.

We have the same "accent" as those in North/Central America: North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, (not southern Illinois, they have drawls)

**Also, someone from Saskatoon isn't going to sound any different than someone from Yorkton, Regina, Moose Jaw, etc. I guess we don't sound as "gangsta" as people from Toronto can sound. The only really big accent I know of in ALL of Canada is the Newfoundland one. You can definitely tell when you're speaking to someone from the east coast.

Answer 2

Maybe it's different in Saskatchewan, but everywhere else in Canada a mickey is a small, often flat, bottle of liquor 375ml in size or about 13 oz. The Canadian equivalent to an American fifth, so-called because it's more or less a fifth of a gallon, is a 750ml bottle, roughly equivalent to 26 oz, so in Canada that size is still called a 26er even if they don't put '26 oz' on the bottle any more. The bottles that hold 40 oz, whatever that is in metric, are called 40 pounders.

Answer 3

im from Vancouver and we also say Sem-ee...