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> Re: the 'Accent'.. When most Americans think of a Canadian accent they
> think of what is mostly a Northern or Eastern accent actually used by
> very few of us. You expect us to say 'aboot' instead of about. For the
> most part the bulk of us have no true accent, we just say words exactly
> as they are spelled but, like in the USA, there are areas that do have
> a distinctly different accent and often use different words for things.

When I was in Canada, I noticed that most of the Canadians I ran into had
no accent.  They were sometimes difficult to understand, though, because by
no accent I mean they also didn't accent any of their syllables.  If they
spoke fast, it was difficult to catch some words.

This would have been in Ontario, mostly north of Lakes Superior and Huron.

The few people I ran into that had accents either sounded like a Red Green
character, sounded slighly British, or sounded slightly French.  That was
very few people.

Mike

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