Why do Canadians say "new" like "n-you"?

Question

Asked this person where they were from... Their response? NYOUfinland... what? They meant Newfoundland but when the word "you" came into "new" i have noo clue..

Answer 1

We say that in ireland too

Answer 2

Don't confuse the Newfie accent with Canada as a whole. That would be like confusing a Mainer accent, or a MIssissippian accent, with the US as a whole. Newfoundland is a very special society of its own. Really nice people in my opinion, but they do have an odd accent. I never noticed that Newfoundlanders say nyou instead of new. How people say vowel sounds is a major source of different accents or word pronunciation, and it is an interesting thing, but the why is usually a historic artifact, a result of who settled the area way back when. Accents vary quite a bit as you move across Canada, much as they do for the US.

Answer 3

its an accent

Answer 4

You possibly mean like Britons and most English-speakers say "new" - thus as "niew". As far as I know, only Americans say "noo".

Answer 5

The bigger question is why English inserts that "y" sound before the "u" sound in words like union, cute, pure, beauty, sugar, mute, future, etc. I don't think any other language does. I don't stick it into words beginning with "n" and I haven't heard it in the US but I guess it makes as much sense in those words as in the others.

Answer 6

Only an AMERITARD could be so gleefully ignorant.

Answer 7

So who made YOU the expert on pronunciation ? Ever consider why you pronounce things as you do ? Perhaps you are the one who needs educating.

Answer 8

So which is it? Canadians say it that way or Canadians from Newfoundland say it that way? It's like calling a deep south US accent or someone from Boston as THE American accent.

Answer 9

Why do Muricans say ‘N-OOOOOO’.

Not only do Canadians say it correctly, but the British—who invented it—say it that way too.

Answer 10

the REAL question is why do they say "about" like "uh-boot"?