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Ok Canadians even up to the current younger generations absolutely have a distinct accent and I would know being in the northwest and getting vancouver tv stations as well. They absolutely say words like out and house completely different and are generally much more Anglo British esque in some words, spellings, and usages
Ok Canadians even up to the current younger generations absolutely have a distinct accent and I would know being in the northwest and getting vancouver tv stations as well. They absolutely say words like out and house completely different and are generally much more Anglo British esque in some words, spellings, and usages
And don't forget, Vancouver has "the lightest" Canadian accent in all of Canada. Ontario has it 20 times as strong as what you've already pointed out.
Canadians aren't "losing" their accents anytime soon, if anything they're getting stronger. Which is odd considering you would think increasing Americanization in Canada in terms of media would level out the accent?
It's funny, when I listen to someone like Michael J Fox in family ties re-runs he didn't sound that Canadian at all but young canadian actors these days on TV shows (like degrassi) have strong and pronounced accents "OOOAT and abooooat". As I said, the accent seems to be actually getting stronger not weaker through the generations.
And don't forget, Vancouver has "the lightest" Canadian accent in all of Canada. Ontario has it 20 times as strong as what you've already pointed out.
Canadians aren't "losing" their accents anytime soon, if anything they're getting stronger. Which is odd considering you would think increasing Americanization in Canada in terms of media would level out the accent?
It's funny, when I listen to someone like Michael J Fox in family ties re-runs he didn't sound that Canadian at all but young canadian actors these days on TV shows (like degrassi) have strong and pronounced accents "OOOAT and abooooat". As I said, the accent seems to be actually getting stronger not weaker through the generations.
Yeah I noticed the same when I lived in Australia. About fully 1/2 of the tv shows were American but nobody started speaking American English. They could understand it well enough of course. I have doubts that foreign cultural media affect local dialects as much as people think they do. How you talk in large part is determined by who you talk with on a regular basis.
Sounds like a boat to my ears. Some say it sounds like a boot, which I don't find to be true at all.
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