Canadian Accent?


Why do americans think we have accents, we sound the same as them. if your american try to explain what we sound like if we have so called "accents"

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I'm Canadian, but I happen to know that Americans don't pronounce they're words as well as Canadians do. That's what they call an 'accent' but it's only because they don't pronounce their words right. Hope I helped. :)

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Well we have the same accents, but we always like to say "Eh" after almost everything we say. Canadians say Ers too you know.

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It depends on where you are from. Western Canadians have very very standard Canadian accents; people from Ontario are prone to say 'bah-loo-en' for balloon (amongst other things), Newfies are...Newfies, and Atlantic Canadians have a very French-influenced dialect. For instance, I'm from an Acadian region...I tend to say 'dis' instead of 'this'.

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I lived out west for a while (BC) and then moved to Ontario and noticed a big difference even in the way they say simple words...like out west they would say chooseday (tuesday) and of course there's the whole sweater/sweat shirt debate.

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Hahahaha what? I'm from BC and I've never heard anyone say chooseday instead of tuesday.

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I live in BC and yea I have noticed a lot of ppl here say chooseday instead of tuesday

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Uhh, I'm from Ontario broken-lullaby, and I've never heard anyone say "bah-loo-en", we say balloon...like, normal.

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I'm Canadian, but I happen to know that Americans don't pronounce they're words as well as Canadians do. That's what they call an 'accent' but it's only because they don't pronounce their words right. Hope I helped. :)
...I'm still not sure you get the point of an accent. o.o Neither is right nor wrong.

As for some Canadian differences, I happened to notice just a couple words had a notable accent, like "tomorrow" and "sorry".

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Personally I dont think we have that great of a difference in accents but we do have one we say we dont have an accent comparred to the British or the Australians but to them they dont have an accent becasue they are used to hearing their language being spoken the way they speak it. Since American and Canadian accents are close but a little but different "stronger" we think we talk normal and them strange.

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Honestly, I don't hear a difference of accents in 6teen. I was really surprised to find out that it wasn't made or voiced over in America at all. I don't even hear any of the characters going regionally specific in their "Canadian accents", I just plain don't hear one. In fact, I was worried for a while that, when Nick brought it over to America, it was actually dubbed over by some jack*ssed voice over company that thought we needed it to be 'translated' like some foreign language. (If that were true I would be volcanic eruption angry.) But, nope, It's all natural, all Canadian, all native, no artificial preservatives or additives, and it hardcore rocks, hehe. I have to say though, although American stereotypes suck *ss, i was sooo dying to hear at least one character say "eh" just to prove that it was Canadian made. LOL!
meh...I can live without it.

btw, is there actually a mall that big up there?

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a big mall up where??

"Ah. Multiple exclamation points, the true sign of a deranged mind."

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Oop...sorry. I'm sitting in California, hehe. I meant up there in Canada.

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We have the biggest mall in the world up here. In fact, the mall in 6teen is pretty average sized, i can think of at least 4 within 20 minutes of me that are that size or bigger.

Edit: Also I would have assumed you were American from the "up there" but for the whole first part of your post you sounded Canadian...

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Sorry, Twisted_Utopia, The West Edmonton Mall is not actually the biggest. The Mall of America in Minneapolis is the biggest in the world. The WEM is a little bit smaller, but it's the largest in Canada. Dude, don't get me wrong, I am from Ontario (just north of Toronto) and I love my country. Oh, and to whomever said that Torontonians say "bah-loo-en", I have never met anybody that says that. I say "bahy-gull" instead of bagel, but I don't have an acent, it's just the way that I pronounce it. I blush at the fact, it's so embarrassing. Then again,, I nmever eat b agels so I don't say the word often. My friends tease me about it. It's much better than my non-Italian friends saying "pah-sta" instead of pasta like the rest of us from European decent. Anywho, in my personal opinion, "eh" is waaaay better than "huh" any day!

Oh my god, they killed Kenny!!

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Just thought I'd update this but WEM and Mall of America are both smaller then some new mall in Asia somewhere. However, WEM is now the largest mall in North America, therefore it is bigger then the Mall of America.

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Yeah, we have slight accents, but its not huge or anything. I don't say "eh?" after every sentance, but usually after every question I've found myself saying it. I may be quilty of saying "chooseday" and it annoys me that people from up West call them "quads" and "trikes"... they are 4-wheelers and three-wheelers! Tree houses are not cubbys and backpacks are cases, not bookbags. =)

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Ok, so I'm from Montreal. It's weird, because I use all the things you guys are saying are from various parts of the country. I say "eh" after approximately every third sentence, so that is true, I also say "choosday" instead of Tuesday, although I never really noticed it before, buy I also pronounce it "Tarana" instead of "Toronto", and use words like "depanneur" instead of "convenience store", and I do notice that I talk differently from americans. But I can do a "stereotypical" canadian accent when in the U.S. just to confuse americans. I know it's cruel, but it's also funny. (Talking to Americans is one of the best shows/segments ever.)



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We people in the Canada's love to end every sentence with eh? It's because we love the letter A. Even the fairly odd parents hate us because we use maple syrup on every food like pizza,cake,cheese and our homework eh? We spell color with a u so you we get colour eh? Or favorite is spelt favourite eh? Yup we live in igloos and enjoy bacon in the snow while watching 6 teenagers try to get drunk on television while avoiding the FCC of Canada like crap or boobys is a good word eh?

Just kidding we don't talk like that except for some but we need better t.v shows. Jaccob two,two captain flamingoe and skyland are boring. Spider Riders is the worst of them all. Its a fake anime.

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Well, when I used to work for Equifax, a few Americans asked if I was Canadian (they could tell). ONE guy even asked if I was a maritimer (atlantic Canada). Of course due to the fact that Equifax doesn't want the US to know that Canadians are handling their credit reports, we would have to say something like "Well, I grew up in canada, but moved to Atlanta" (where we would say we were located). Some realized that there were a lot of Canadians who moved to Atlanta... go figure.



OH NO!!!! I revealed the Equifax secret. Ah well, the US has a right to know.

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I live in Nova Scotia and very few people can place it since I think they're always looking for a South Shore or Cape Breton accent. Those nearer to Halifax (like myself) have a less distinctive style of speach and don't sound all that different from just general american tv accents.

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i live in California. i've actually noticed 1 or 2 words pronounced differently than how i hear them pronounced here. (i don't remember what words though, lol) but ppl have different accents all over the US so it's no big deal. other than that though i haven't noticed any differences. i don't notice any cultural differences either. in fact i probably wouldn't have known it was a Canadian cartoon if i didn't read it from the internet. (or the fact that they sometimes have a Canadian flag in the show) but honestly, it doesn't matter because i don't even know what any of the Canadian stereotypes are, except the "eh" thing. apparently they're all false.

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This is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English

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I've noticed they say the word 'sorry' differently. Even when I saw Degrassi and Life With Derek.

I say sorry like, "soh-ree", while they say it like "suh-ree".

Minor difference.

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I knew it was canadian right away. One major reason is I knew it was the same people as TDI, and that is canadian. But also, Jonesy has a discernible canadian accent whenever he says "out" or "about." I am from Washington and we say 'owwt', and he says 'oooot.' But he is the only voice actor that has the stereotypical canadian "accent." Also, growing up near BC, I have often been asked if I'm canadian. People claim I have an accent, but I can't hear it. *shrugs*

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None of the characters have accents, not even Nikki has an accent and she is one of the few minorities on the show. I assume we think all you Canadians have a french accent in Quebec, and everone else says "eh" at the end of every sentence.

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