How do Italians pronounce pasta?
How do you pronounce pasta in Canada?
“An example would be ‘paw-sta’ is the American pronunciation but ‘pa-sta’ is the Canadian pronunciation and really sounds weird to Americans,” says Boberg. Those on Canada’s West and East Coasts pronounce words differently than those in the central provinces.
Why do Brits say pasta?
American short O vowels are often not short or rounded, but a long back A sound – so “karr-loss” would be “karr-lahss” to us Brits. While the fact that the British long O’s are often heavily diphthongised means they are even further away from a pure Spanish O. For many Americans ‘pasta‘ would ‘peh-a-sta’.