-54 If you're Canadian you say pasta with an "ah" sound not "posta" like Americans do, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What the.... I say p-ah-sta and I'm American

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Ditto

by Anonymous 14 years ago

posta? i have never heard that one. ever. its pAsta.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Not the OP but in my opinion you're probably just used to how it sounds and don't hear it as an o but trust me to outsiders it sounds like an o. It does to me anyway and I've heard a variation of american accents. Totally sounds like posta so I understand the op's comment.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I live in America and it's the short a sound, not o.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Like Past-tuh? I get OP. Americans tend to use ahhh in Pasta.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

This, this right here!^ I kinda only got it because I watch Epic Meal Time.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, I'm an American, and I say PAH-STAH. Who say PO-sta? The same people who say "Busghetti"?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well duh it doesn't mean po-sta as in post. In means as in floss. Like poss-ta.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Could've used a better comparison, like P-aah-sta vs p-ahh-sta.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm confused still. As in, the long A sound as opposed to the long o sound? Because past-uh would be weird where I live. (northern u.s.) I've always said it like post-uh

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I hear some Canadians say pOsta, and I hear Americans say P-AH-sta

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most people who downvoted are probably American. I live in a border city, and whenever I go to eat/shop in the states I hear: -Soda pap -ruf (roof) -posta (O pronounced like "awe") -Hackey (Hockey) -writer pronounced as rider and vice versa

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Us Americans don't talk like that.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Americans say most "a" words like they are "e" words for example harry sounds like "herry" and fast sounds like "fest" so naturally I'd have expected them to call pasta "pesta" I think its really weird how they instead pronounce some "a" words like there's an o. Posta and ont (ant) Lol its really inconsistent with their usual "e" sound and almost sounds posh or english but I know its just the way they say it. I'm not american, english or canadian.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

^ sorry meant "aunt" not ant lol

by Anonymous 12 years ago