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I'm originally from Toronto and friends of mine here have noticed what they consider a Toronto accent. Right now, I'm not much more than an hour from Cleveland, so I'm pretty familiar with the Great Lakes accent--the sort of twang you hear in Chicago, parts of Michigan, Cleveland and Buffalo--but the local accent is much more like what you hear in western Pennsylvania, especially Pittsburgh.
My siblings and I don't sound at all like Buffalo residents. When we travel to the States, people ask us where in Canada we're from. I've been to California, and the people there don't seem to have a particularly distinctive accent. Of course, we seem to be in a clear minority as native Torontonians; many people in the city are immigrants and this sems to be true in Los Angeles as well.
They don't sound like either. Buffalo sounds more like Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago. While LA got it's own thing going on. When I hear the words Sorry, Tommorow, and Process with an O, I know right away it's Canadian.
True, however a lot do say "eh", a lot including my wife who hasn't lived in Canada for about 12 years. Even Asian immigrants to Canada do it as well, it's kind of funny.
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