Creating "quaint" speakers?

[Machjo]

I'll eat my last words.

Now that i think about it, the fact that I'm a native bilingual able to speak a third language fluently, get by in a fourth, and read a bit of two others , plus have a minority religion puts me in a different category even if I'm a native speaker of English.

After all, most native English-spekers are probably monolingual, and so are not likely to dare to venture beyond the comfortable confines of English-speaking suburbs, while the few bilinguals will. This might explain my daring to find work in small-town Quebec from Victoria, BC. In this sense, you're probably right. Native English-speakers are likely to segregate themselves from the rst for the most part due to job challenges in bilingual areas, etc.