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I've been asked numerous times if I'm Canadian. I have a midwestern accent and out here on the coast the only ones who "get it right " are WI/MN transplants.
if you have a new england or minnesota accent, have you ever been mistaken for a brit or a norwegian or a canadian when travelling to other states?
Being from the Dallas/Fort Worth area we have transplants from all over. To me, the northern accents from Minnesota, Wisconsin, even Michigan sound a bit Canadian. There's probably some similarities there due to the proximity.
I am originally from the Boston area. When I lived in Japan and Germany I was asked if I was from Australia or New Zealand or Canada, and some of these people were americans. In the USA I have been asked countless times if I was from New York, Jersey, sometimes Canada, or they guess right someplace in New England. I haven't been asked yet if I was from the UK. I also think the accent in the northern regions of the Upper Great Lakes is similar to the Canadian accent. I find it very difficult to tell who is canadian or american when meeting someone from that region.
I'm a native Californian and I thought we had rather homogenous speech patterns out here in the west. However, when I worked for a large insurance company 20 years ago, I was speaking on the phone with a man who said he was from Iran. He then asked me if I was from New York! I told him no, that I'm from here (SoCal).
Another time, when I went to a church event at someone's house, I was talking with one of the guys who was in the church's worship band. After a few minutes, he asked me if I was from Canada! Like the other person I just mentioned, I had to tell this guy that I'm from the local area. Never knew I had an accent!
I've been asked if I am Canadian many times, and I grew up in KC, MO. My grandmother was Canadian (Winnepeg), so that's the only remote influence I might have had. However I only visited with her on average once a month.
Even my husband points out my accent when I say "out", "about", "house", etc.
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A couple of years ago I started adding "eh" to the end of my sentences for some reason. I have no idea where I picked it up, probably from a movie. For example: How you doing eh? Anyway, people would always ask if I was from Canada. So I quit doing it, now they ask where I moved to Texas from. I tell them I am a native Texan and they say I don't sound like it.
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