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You're from the Deep South, eh? You probably say abowwwwwwwwwwwwt, not about. I think you're the one with the accent.
Everyone has an accent (especially me), but not everyone gets worked up when told they have one. US citizens are proud of our different regional accents. Yes we make fun of each other, but most people take the teasing in stride.
BTW, no, I'm not from the south. I just live here right now. I mentioned in another message that I'm from the state of Pennsylvania.
Everyone has an accent (especially me), but not everyone gets worked up when told they have one. US citizens are proud of our different regional accents. Yes we make fun of each other, but most people take the teasing in stride.
BTW, no, I'm not from the south. I just live here right now. I mentioned in another message that I'm from the state of Pennsylvania.
Hey, sorry about that. I was half kidding, I didn't mean to come off as offensive. I'm a U.S. Citizen too, from the Upper Midwest (some people say we sound Canadian). I saw your location bar and figured you were from the south. No harm intended.
The only time I have ever heard "aboot" is out of the mouths of Americans who think they are imitating Canadians LOL. Never heard it from a Canadian yet. (Now the "eh" word is a whole other ballgame - but that's not an accent. )
Exactly, I've never heard anyone say "aboot" unless it was an exaggeration. Like I said earlier I usually hear it closer to "aboat" but even that's not entirely accurate. Somewhere between an ow and oh sound. It's impossible to represent phonetically.
The second girl was in no way representative of all of the US. I didn't even get to where she pronounced the words. She has a distinct southern, or south Midwestern drawl. The third girl I'm willing to bet is from California. She sounds almost Northern Californian but without the stressed first syllable in her words.
Basically, the only accent I noticed was in the second girl.
I don't say all of the words like any one of these girls.
10-15% of the Canadian girl's words sound foreign to me, seriously.
Yeah , same with me - a number of those I pronounce differently as well. I'm from the east coast, and to me she sounds "Ontario-ish"
Which just shows ta go ya that there is no such thing as a homogenized Canadian accent.
The second girl was in no way representative of all of the US...
Exactly my point
There is no one "American accent", nor is there a "Canadian accent" - it's all regional. Compare a west coast Newfoundlander to a New Brunswicker to an Albertan to a . . . there are a gazillion "Canadian" accents.
When people (Americans, that is) talk about "the" Canadian accent, they usually seem to mean an accent most often heard in Ontario, particularly in and around Toronto.
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I say "cumf-trable"
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