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[camel96]

A little secret for the Canadians who keep voting that Americans have the worst accent....

THEY HAVE THE SAME ACCENT AS YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Except on that stupid I love Canada Molson deal. I don't know what the hell that is. Dutch or something....?

[peppermint]

Admitedly,some Canadians and Americans share accents but you haven't been around many Canadians if you think we (just Canadians) all sound the same. Trust me, I'm from Newfoundland and if you heard me on the phone with someone from home, you wouldn't say that.

I manage to speak a generic North American accent in the classroom, but by da lord tundrin' jaysus, when ye gets me mad, by, watch out

(that's pretty close to how an angry newfie speaks, especially if you say it fast)

I can distinguish different accents in Korean (even though I usually don't understand whats being said) and if a country this small has regional variations, why is it so hard to believe that a landmass as large as North America would too?

I will admit though that a thick, straight outta the bay Newfie accent can be one of the more annoying sounds on earth.

[camel96]

OK let me rephrase that. Standard US accent=Standard Canadian accent.
Give or take a few %. And you know what I mean by that. If you quiz it you're just being cantankerous.
I can't be bothered doing the research to find the figures but a massive portion of the Canadian population lives within a few hundred km of a US city. In my (and probably most people's) experience I haven't found that there is much of a difference between the two. Toronto=Detroit, Vancouver=Seattle etc etc. In any case I'm not actually saying you guys are American (put down the flags) I'm just saying most of you sound the same.

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

I think the standard Canadian accent is similar to, but not the same as the American one. You can hear it in a few words, and the Canadian one is softer ( to me anyway ) ... but then I had a Canadian g/f for two and a half years.

[The Lemon]

[canuckistan]

I'm always getting teased by my guy when I say "about" ("aboot").....geez, and he's from North Dakota. YAAAaaaaah.

[Fren Lee]

How do you vote on these damned things? Not that I would have voted anyway -- there is such difference between some American accents, to name one example, that the voting categories are completely insufficient. (Oh I have just discovered how to vote. Duh.)

Personally I *loathe* the accents of the American South, y'all... they make the speaker sound of subnormal intelligence. A lot of Southerners are aware of this and many try to change their accent, particularly when they move North. I learned this from a Southern-born university professor of drama I met once while on a trip to the northern USA (from my home in Canada); he was with a group of fellow transplanted Southerners. They told me how they had all worked extremely hard to lose their "terrible southern accents."

Then of course there are those Southerners who get their backs up and refuse to change their accents. Fine, it's a free country and all.

Speaking of Britain, isn't it amazing that the Glasgow accent is always considered one of the worst there while that of Edinburgh, just 42 miles away! is always one of the favorites???? I hung out with a girl from Edinburgh for a summer once and she sho' nuff sounded purty --

[camel96]

In any case for me I'd have to say a regional US accent.
New Jersey. Sorry...Noo Joysey. Sounds like people trying to talk with food in their mouths. Horrible!
...After that Newfies...

[kiwiboy_nz_99]

[desultude]

"Cracker" is used for poor whites from the south-east of the U.S. No one there really cops to being a "cracker"- its like "white-trash." I own up to both, given my family background. My father does NOT consider himself a cracker- he always drives around central Florida with his windows up and the air conditioning on in his 1986 Buick Regal- because, he says, crackers drive with theirs down to save on gas. Besides his daughter went to u-nee-versity.

The up-voice at the end of sentences smacks of L.A., and mostly The Valley, but a lot of boppers and girly-girls use it to sound cute. So, Totally, fingernails on the chalkboard.

I spent my late teen years ironing out the effects of born in New York, raised in South Florida. Most people identify me as The States, but can't find a regional distinction. It really takes work. I don't think I could ever lose The States in my accent.

I am impatient with stupid or arrogant sounding speech, otherwise all accents are just charming. Its the content, not the delivery.

[ReeseDog]

Bringing this thread out of mothballs...

I love to listen to a woman with a Scottish accent.

Just curious - I wonder why the most unpopular accents are from the U.S.?

[Brady]

I'm aware that the Chicago accent is horrendous, but it sounds like home to me. I love busting out a good "keeeaaan't" (can't) now and then.

Redneck Southern is pure, distilled ignorance. A nice Southern drawl is attractive, but contrast that with the dialect spoken by the blurry-faced people on COPS.

[silentwhispers]

[kabrams]

[ReeseDog]