I’m ok with this if it means universal health care. I’m also ok with giving up pennies, switching to dollar and two dollar coins, and adding a ‘u’ to color, honor, etc.
I draw the line at pronouncing ‘pasta’ and ‘taco’ with the short ‘a’ sound as in ‘bad’.
Or “Z” as “zed”. 
Only Brits pronounce taco like that.
Pasta / Pasta. Most Canadians say Pahsta. Rhymes with Basta.
I’ve mostly heard Americans pronounce Pasta with a short A.
I’ve mostly heard Americans pronounce the R in foyer.
I’ve only heard Americans pronounce the W in Lowe’s, and turn Lowe’s into a 2 syllable word.
The Torontans I have worked with all seem to have the ‘bad’ a. Much less so when I was in Vancouver.
The Toronto folks sounded like weird Minnesotan (and became instantly recognizable when I started watching Letterkenny.
Vancouverites take the Canadian ‘Sorry’ (SORE-ee) as opposed to the American ‘SAR-ee’, but then mix it in with a bunch of NorCal/PNW stuff. “Hella” springs to mind.
I had the hardest time understanding the Letterkenny peeps at first. It wasn’t so much the accent as maybe the melody? Took a while to get into the groove. Also, that is one fast-paced comedy (not to mention a favorite). My TO friend always said pahsta, but that’s a pretty small sample for me to generalize.
Yea, one of my favorite (sorry, favourite) things about it was the way it just clipped along and made you keep up.
If you haven’t yet found it, Shorsey is its spin-off and has a couple season on Hulu. I believe there’s more to come.
Yup. Seen it. Jared Keeso is quite the talent.
It is a 2 syllable word. The o is just missing the umlaut.
Wut, really?
Say what?
Are we taking about the hardware warehouse style
Chain, akin to Home Depot?
That’s Lowe’s, which is pronounced exactly the same as “lows” as in “the highs and lows”.
Is there actually an accent/dialect where that is pronounced “low-iss” like the name Lois?
I am mistaken. Years ago, I was told Lowes was an anglicized spelling of Löwe. I did some googling of Lucius Smith Lowe and it is a one syllable Lowe.
Yep, the hardware store.
My cousin from Cranberry Township, PA. None of his siblings pronounce it that way.
Even if it was an Anglicized version of Löwe, the Anglicization would have made that Anglicized Lowe one syllable instead of 2, regardless of how many syllables the German original has. 
My dog happens to be a Löwchen. Imagine how that is pronounced by people who are not German speakers. That that’s how it’s pronounced in English. Lau Chen.
I have an Anglicized one syllable last name, and a lot of people not familiar with the English language turn it into a 2 syllable name.
Being Canadian, I usually don’t correct their pronunciation unless they’re pissing me off.
Cool that you gave your dog a Chinese name!
Wow…so not only are they not “authentic,” they aren’t tandoor-fired either. 
Dang. I liked those, especially the minis. I never really considered the tandoor aspect, because if I want that, I can walk a block to a lovely Indian restaurant, and make myself very happy.
