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There's one Canadian I would have trouble figuring out where he was from. For some reason he always speaks in a midwestern American accent. He's a friend of my husband's and went to "cahledge" in the US.
Possibly also because English wasn't his first or second language, and because growing up we, like most of those I know whose first language isn't English, were self-conscious about it, he decided that the Midwest accent was the way to go. It's very strange hearing it out of the mouth of a Canadian.
Would you agree that the difference in accent between Seattle and Toronto is far less than the difference in accent between Seattle and Alabama? I think the case for that is self evident, but do we have any dissenters?
Say an alien from space were dropped into a North America without borders. The alien would begin learning about human language (starting with English), and also about the concept of countries.
After having spoken with someone from Toronto and someone from Portland and someone from Tuscaloosa, which two would the space alien pick as being from the same country?
I'm assuming that you are suggesting that the aliens would be really, really smart. So the answer is that they would be able to detect exactly where someone was from....I mean, if I can, surely they could too, but we would have to wait for the invasion before one could say any of this with any truth.
There are a slew of words that are pronounced differently, in both countries. Then there are words like " foyer" .
In Canada I have only heard it pronounced one way, in the US two ways, with one being more common. However, it is still a word that gives away more often than not, where the person is from.
I say fragile as Fraj-aisle and foyer as foy-yay.
Maybe orientated is a UK/Canadian word, because in the US we only say oriented.
There's one Canadian I would have trouble figuring out where he was from. For some reason he always speaks in a midwestern American accent. He's a friend of my husband's and went to "cahledge" in the US.
Possibly also because English wasn't his first or second language, and because growing up we, like most of those I know whose first language isn't English, were self-conscious about it, he decided that the Midwest accent was the way to go. It's very strange hearing it out of the mouth of a Canadian.
Would you agree that the difference in accent between Seattle and Toronto is far less than the difference in accent between Seattle and Alabama? I think the case for that is self evident, but do we have any dissenters?
There's one Canadian I would have trouble figuring out where he was from. For some reason he always speaks in a midwestern American accent. He's a friend of my husband's and went to "cahledge" in the US.
Possibly also because English wasn't his first or second language, and because growing up we, like most of those I know whose first language isn't English, were self-conscious about it, he decided that the Midwest accent was the way to go. It's very strange hearing it out of the mouth of a Canadian.
Having lived in Michigan, I think I know the accent you're talking about. Is his accent now a little hard and nasally? If so, I call it the Great Lakes accent, because you hear it from parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota down throughout Chicago, Michigan, and Ohio and into Western New York. Every native Michigander I know has it, and so do my cousins in Buffalo. Love my cousins dearly, but not their accent.
I agree. I've met quite a few Californians who almost sound Canadian, including my new neighbo(u)rs.
Tell them about how you didn't pay the hydro because the bill was accidentally put in the garburator. That will out them LOL
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