FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - Do Canadians Have An Accent?
Thread: Do Canadians Have An Accent?
View Single Post
Old Dec 15, 2007 | 12:45 pm
  #27  
Krakajax
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 361
Originally Posted by jplus
Do Canadians have (a very detectable) accent? I'm not thinking about the obvious "aboot" or "poutine", but just normal speech. I lived in Vancouver most of the time and when I travel to northwest U.S. (WA and OR) many people ask if I'm from Canada, can't think of other identifying cues.

Just curious what you guys think?


Do you tend to use the word ' Hey ' as a question alot ?

How about asking where the WASH-ROOM is located?

just 2 examples of differences in language.

French hasn't much to do with it as there are alot of Basque in the
Northwest (alot live in Idaho).
Krakajax is offline  
Reply