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If you were to travel to Canada, you would soon run into a Canadian and a few of his or her friends. If you started to have a conversation with them, you would most likely quickly notice the extra words that the Canadians add to the English language. At first, I thought that these words were only a type of slang that the Canadians had some how picked up. But, under closer inspection I have found that these extra words such as eh? are actually a way for Canadians to secretly communicate amongst themselves.

Adding to this lack of understanding that Americans have for the secret Canadian language, is the fact that 25% of the Canadian population speaks French, which most Americans cannot.

I will now try to explain the speech of the Canadians In about 2 sentences:

Canadians use "raised vowel" sounds (which obviously shows us that they are trying to raise themselves above Americans), which make them sound as if they come from England. If you listen to a Canadian say "out and about", you will hear "oot and aboot". Therefore, it is true to say that Candians don't speak English, they speak Canadian, which is a language in itself.

Another thing that the Canadians do in order to confuse Americans is by using different words to describe certain objects. For example: Canadians say , "an elastic" ,instead of saying, "a rubber band". Other examples are as follows: A chesterfield = couch. Runners = tennis shoes. Cash register = a till. A Bum = a Butt. There are many more.

If you take the time to read some Canadian text you will notice a lot of extra "u's behind "o's, such as in colour, flavour, humour, and neighbour. Some of the "r"s are shy and frightened of appearing at the end of words, as in The Centre of Arts. This is just another example of how the Canadians are trying to fool Americans.