Thanks. Her "Toronto" accent was driving me nuts. Never in my 25 years in Toronto have I met anyone born and raised in the city, regardless or race, ethnicity or socioeconomic background that sounded like that 21 accents version of our accent. Smh
there are many different accents in toronto, but ive been here for all of my 20 years and ive never heard one like what amy walker did...this is way more accurate ...white people and black people tend to sound different here tho...what cynthia did is more of a white or neutral accent but still a fair representation
The way you pronounced the word "actually" (i.e. AWK'tually) is certainly "stereotypical" Canadian. The A is the vowel that gives a Torontonian away, whereas the O's (and A's) is really typical of rural Canadians (Northern Ontario, particularly).
im from the GTA too. funny thing about people from the area is that we say: "Toro'no" instead of ToronTO. just a funny observation someone from the states pointed out.
Cynthia sounds like any ol' Torontonian (actually from Toronto, or surrounding Ontario). Compare her (or any Canadian news anchor) to the accent portrayed in '21 Accents' and there's no comparison. Now go and watch videos with native Newfoundlanders (incl. those now living in Toronto) and see which accent the '21 Accents' video more closely represents.
It's funny how many non-Torontonians defend '21 Accents' despite all the videos of Torontonians on the Internet, on t.v., in film, etc.
@monkeygirl000 To say that NO ONE talks like that whatsoever is a complete denial. To talk in generalisation is to say Canada is not diverse and everybody is the same. Just because they aren't in the media, doesn't mean there aren't people who talk like that who aren't from Toronto.
@monkeygirl000 It's funny how many Torontonians assume the stereotypical Canadian accent is based on the Newfoundland accent, which hardly anybody in the world even knows about, let alone has heard. The accent is based on rural Canadians, not Torontonians or Easter Canadians (certainly NOT Newfoundlanders, which is in a breed of its own).
Try actually watching those "native Newfoundlander" videos before you make ridiculous statements like that.
@Rheostatik Yeah Newfie accents are derived from Irish accents- or a lot of them are. Rural Canadian accents are the one that typically use "eh" a lot and whatnot... As for the "actually" I'm not sure what you mean.
@adirgeforher Listen to how she says the word "actually" at around 0:11. It's a long, vertical way of pronouncing the A, like how the word "back" is pronounced like "Bach".
Anyways, it's nothing to be embarassed about. I don't know why Torontonians in particular get so defensive when people point out the way they speak (sure, "eh" doesn't apply to them, but they still have their own speech patterns).
@Rheostatik Yeah, but what is the other way of pronouncing actually? I grew up in Central Canada and I live in Toronto now but can't really differentiate the accents, other than that some people in Toronto don't seem to annunciate. (If anything, the girl in the video annunciates more than I've ever seen in urban parts)
Actually, I think many WHITE Canadians, sound like how Amy Walker portrayed it. I am from Victoria and I've been to Toronto many many times=2x a month.
@alumnagirl I agree that it's easy enough to know how people in Toronto actually speak, simply by going to Google Videos, and search for Toronto News. Listen to the anchors, the reporters, and any native Torontonians with whom they might speak, and tell me even one sounds like the '21 Accents' video.
@alumnagirl umm.... she didn't have to imitate the 'evening news' accent though, and actually, there is no such thing as 'Standard Canadian Accent,' People from say Victoria, sound different from someone from Ottawa. Amy could've even be imitating a Newfie influenced accent...
@almondmilklee You've obviously never heard of a Newfie accent, and odds are Amy hasn't either. The stereotypical Canadian is generally based on Bob & Doug McKenzie, not an area and accent that 99% of the world's population has never heard of.
@ted1916 I have never heard anyone from Toronto speak like Amy Walker and I have lived here my entire life. Amy Walkers accent is more Newfie, I believe but I am not quite sure. The point is it is not Torontonian and it sounds more like Sarah Palin's way of speaking than a citizen of Toronto's.
Thats great grats to you. I've met numerous people from Toronto who had relatively the same accent as her. People assume because I am from Minnesota I have a fargoesque accent. However I don't because get this not everyone has the same accent.
to really grasp the transcendent impulse behind the 'toronto the good' accent, you have to understand the headspace is that no matter where they were born, they operate as though Toronto were Manhattan if the Swiss ran it but they don't know much about Switzerland.
@littleladylove Maybe, but they'd be from Newfoundland, not native Torontonians/Ontarians. With 52% of the population of Toronto born outside Canada, there are "many people" who speak English with an Indian accent, a Chinese accent, a British accent, a Scottish accent, a French accent, a Korean accent, and on and on. Why limit it to Newfoundlanders who come to Toronto for work? Why do THEY represent a Toronto accent? Watch the evening news for a Toronto accent.
@monkeygirl000 no the people at work ARE from Toronto. And the people on the news DO say "oot" and "aboot". Listen to Matt Galloway on CBC Radio for example. It's slight - but it's definitely there. It's on the news ALL THE TIME. I don't know anyone from Newfoundland =P The accent is DEFINITELY there.
I find it absolutely hilarious that Torontonians deny this so much, prob because they're so used to hearing it.
@littleladylove There's a reason why Canadian television reporters are so common on American news. THE ONLY discernable accent is the "oat" sound, instead of "out". Anyone who says ANY Canadian pronounces it "oot" and not "oat" has clearly not LISTENED. Having lived in the U.S. for many years, I know "oat" is THE ONLY thing that tipped people off I was CANADIAN, but not necessarily from TORONTO. (...like Peter Jennings, John Roberts, etc.) '21 Accents' isn't about "oat" vs. "out," though.
cont'd She's not claiming a "Canadian" accent, but specifically a Toronto accent. When I lived in both southern and northern California, VERY few people picked-up on the fact I was Canadian or from Toronto. I dare say I didn't notice much difference between the way I spoke and the way others in L.A. or San Francisco spoke. A Seattle accent is also virtually indistinguishable from Toronto. When I lived in Chicago, people mostly thought I was from CA, WA, or NY.
In American news circles, the accent-less way of speaking they're going for, in national news reporting, is sometimes called "Canadian English." That, alone, should indicate how generic and free of obvious accent the Canadian way of speaking is.
Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Alex Trebek, Brendan Fraser, Corey Haim, Ryan Reynolds, Rachel McAdams, Matthew Perry, Hayden Chirstiansen, etc., don't sound any different from their American counterparts nor from me, or other Torontonians. Case closed.
@monkeygirl000 I think what you're not realising is that there isn't a ONE accent. There are many different versions - like as there is with the Australian accent. There are so many different variations. Just because the people you've mentioned don't say it, doesn't mean there aren't people who do say it. I'm not saying that it is about the oat vs out but that ppl do say it and they aren't from Newfoundland & they have even admitted to doing so =P I'm not trying to generalise
wow, amazing how people get so offended. I'm from jersey and people think we have this thick high pitched kind of talk. Example when people say Jersey, they think we say it like JOYsey. you know? But im not making a huge deal about it, just a point. Amy obviously can't master all the accents lol, but there's no need to get offensive and say she was being sterotypical. I'm sure she meant no harm
Thanks. Her "Toronto" accent was driving me nuts. Never in my 25 years in Toronto have I met anyone born and raised in the city, regardless or race, ethnicity or socioeconomic background that sounded like that 21 accents version of our accent. Smh
curlyliving 3 months ago
Hahahah Toronto people sound different than the awesome west-coasters. :P
Snofreek1818 5 months ago
smug much?
TheLouisbyrne 7 months ago
there are many different accents in toronto, but ive been here for all of my 20 years and ive never heard one like what amy walker did...this is way more accurate ...white people and black people tend to sound different here tho...what cynthia did is more of a white or neutral accent but still a fair representation
DSRflood 8 months ago
You sound like me. :)
a torontonian.
Madameo8 9 months ago
The way you pronounced the word "actually" (i.e. AWK'tually) is certainly "stereotypical" Canadian. The A is the vowel that gives a Torontonian away, whereas the O's (and A's) is really typical of rural Canadians (Northern Ontario, particularly).
Rheostatik 10 months ago
Does Toronto have mostly Asian population? It seems like it! I'm just making an observation so don't think I am trolling. :)
sweiland75 1 year ago
im from the GTA too. funny thing about people from the area is that we say: "Toro'no" instead of ToronTO. just a funny observation someone from the states pointed out.
BeltlessTrenchcoat 1 year ago
AAHAHAHAHAHA i fucking love you .
we dont have accents.....
1karinabieber 1 year ago
@1karinabieber
Everyone has an accent whether you realise it or not. if ye went to Austrailia, people may assume you sound american or canadian.
DofS1 1 year ago
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almondmilklee 1 year ago
Cynthia sounds like any ol' Torontonian (actually from Toronto, or surrounding Ontario). Compare her (or any Canadian news anchor) to the accent portrayed in '21 Accents' and there's no comparison. Now go and watch videos with native Newfoundlanders (incl. those now living in Toronto) and see which accent the '21 Accents' video more closely represents.
It's funny how many non-Torontonians defend '21 Accents' despite all the videos of Torontonians on the Internet, on t.v., in film, etc.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
@monkeygirl000 To say that NO ONE talks like that whatsoever is a complete denial. To talk in generalisation is to say Canada is not diverse and everybody is the same. Just because they aren't in the media, doesn't mean there aren't people who talk like that who aren't from Toronto.
littleladylove 1 year ago
@monkeygirl000 It's funny how many Torontonians assume the stereotypical Canadian accent is based on the Newfoundland accent, which hardly anybody in the world even knows about, let alone has heard. The accent is based on rural Canadians, not Torontonians or Easter Canadians (certainly NOT Newfoundlanders, which is in a breed of its own).
Try actually watching those "native Newfoundlander" videos before you make ridiculous statements like that.
Rheostatik 10 months ago 3
@Rheostatik Yeah Newfie accents are derived from Irish accents- or a lot of them are. Rural Canadian accents are the one that typically use "eh" a lot and whatnot... As for the "actually" I'm not sure what you mean.
adirgeforher 10 months ago
@adirgeforher Listen to how she says the word "actually" at around 0:11. It's a long, vertical way of pronouncing the A, like how the word "back" is pronounced like "Bach".
Anyways, it's nothing to be embarassed about. I don't know why Torontonians in particular get so defensive when people point out the way they speak (sure, "eh" doesn't apply to them, but they still have their own speech patterns).
Rheostatik 10 months ago
@Rheostatik Yeah, but what is the other way of pronouncing actually? I grew up in Central Canada and I live in Toronto now but can't really differentiate the accents, other than that some people in Toronto don't seem to annunciate. (If anything, the girl in the video annunciates more than I've ever seen in urban parts)
adirgeforher 10 months ago
@Rheostatik Lies. Torontonian born and raised and eh comes up every few sentences for me!!!
xxxJeahxxx 9 months ago
Actually, I think many WHITE Canadians, sound like how Amy Walker portrayed it. I am from Victoria and I've been to Toronto many many times=2x a month.
ted1916 1 year ago
@ted1916 Yeah, but Amy's accent is not what one would hear on the evening news and therefore not the "standard" Canadian accent.
alumnagirl 1 year ago 6
@alumnagirl I agree that it's easy enough to know how people in Toronto actually speak, simply by going to Google Videos, and search for Toronto News. Listen to the anchors, the reporters, and any native Torontonians with whom they might speak, and tell me even one sounds like the '21 Accents' video.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
@alumnagirl umm.... she didn't have to imitate the 'evening news' accent though, and actually, there is no such thing as 'Standard Canadian Accent,' People from say Victoria, sound different from someone from Ottawa. Amy could've even be imitating a Newfie influenced accent...
almondmilklee 1 year ago
@almondmilklee You've obviously never heard of a Newfie accent, and odds are Amy hasn't either. The stereotypical Canadian is generally based on Bob & Doug McKenzie, not an area and accent that 99% of the world's population has never heard of.
Rheostatik 10 months ago
@ted1916 I have never heard anyone from Toronto speak like Amy Walker and I have lived here my entire life. Amy Walkers accent is more Newfie, I believe but I am not quite sure. The point is it is not Torontonian and it sounds more like Sarah Palin's way of speaking than a citizen of Toronto's.
9raider 8 months ago
@ted1916 but I do say EH and I won't deny that
9raider 8 months ago
Wow, you didn't talk as if everything were a question! It took me years to get rid of that Torontonian attribute.
promixcuous 1 year ago
@promixcuous
that is not a torontonian attribute. rarely do i talk to someone who does that and when they do it's noticeable.
junkee4 9 months ago
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knoc10 1 year ago
LOL you tell em girl
knoc10 1 year ago 2
Thats great grats to you. I've met numerous people from Toronto who had relatively the same accent as her. People assume because I am from Minnesota I have a fargoesque accent. However I don't because get this not everyone has the same accent.
lostcause31 1 year ago
Don't worry, there were more she didn't get right ;)
originalperloocko 1 year ago
i'm totaly with you on this one. i was born in a town about an hour away from toronto and i talk the same as you
Alex04041000 1 year ago
to really grasp the transcendent impulse behind the 'toronto the good' accent, you have to understand the headspace is that no matter where they were born, they operate as though Toronto were Manhattan if the Swiss ran it but they don't know much about Switzerland.
analogent 1 year ago
there's something stuck on your cardigan... not sure if you noticed...
bahia420 1 year ago
I've lived in Toronto for the past 7 years.
nanaimoto1 1 year ago
Amy Walker's accent sounds like the people I deal with at work - very very Canadian. Just sayin'.
littleladylove 1 year ago
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I agree, Amy's accent was very strange and nothing like anything I've heard in Toronto (or anywhere in Canada).
nanaimoto1 1 year ago
I agree, Amy's accent was very strange and nothing like anything I've heard in Toronto (or anywhere in Canada).
nanaimoto1 1 year ago 2
@nanaimoto1 no, there are many people in Toronto who talk like that.
littleladylove 1 year ago
@littleladylove Maybe, but they'd be from Newfoundland, not native Torontonians/Ontarians. With 52% of the population of Toronto born outside Canada, there are "many people" who speak English with an Indian accent, a Chinese accent, a British accent, a Scottish accent, a French accent, a Korean accent, and on and on. Why limit it to Newfoundlanders who come to Toronto for work? Why do THEY represent a Toronto accent? Watch the evening news for a Toronto accent.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
@monkeygirl000 no the people at work ARE from Toronto. And the people on the news DO say "oot" and "aboot". Listen to Matt Galloway on CBC Radio for example. It's slight - but it's definitely there. It's on the news ALL THE TIME. I don't know anyone from Newfoundland =P The accent is DEFINITELY there.
I find it absolutely hilarious that Torontonians deny this so much, prob because they're so used to hearing it.
littleladylove 1 year ago
@littleladylove There's a reason why Canadian television reporters are so common on American news. THE ONLY discernable accent is the "oat" sound, instead of "out". Anyone who says ANY Canadian pronounces it "oot" and not "oat" has clearly not LISTENED. Having lived in the U.S. for many years, I know "oat" is THE ONLY thing that tipped people off I was CANADIAN, but not necessarily from TORONTO. (...like Peter Jennings, John Roberts, etc.) '21 Accents' isn't about "oat" vs. "out," though.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
cont'd She's not claiming a "Canadian" accent, but specifically a Toronto accent. When I lived in both southern and northern California, VERY few people picked-up on the fact I was Canadian or from Toronto. I dare say I didn't notice much difference between the way I spoke and the way others in L.A. or San Francisco spoke. A Seattle accent is also virtually indistinguishable from Toronto. When I lived in Chicago, people mostly thought I was from CA, WA, or NY.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
In American news circles, the accent-less way of speaking they're going for, in national news reporting, is sometimes called "Canadian English." That, alone, should indicate how generic and free of obvious accent the Canadian way of speaking is.
Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Alex Trebek, Brendan Fraser, Corey Haim, Ryan Reynolds, Rachel McAdams, Matthew Perry, Hayden Chirstiansen, etc., don't sound any different from their American counterparts nor from me, or other Torontonians. Case closed.
monkeygirl000 1 year ago
@monkeygirl000 I think what you're not realising is that there isn't a ONE accent. There are many different versions - like as there is with the Australian accent. There are so many different variations. Just because the people you've mentioned don't say it, doesn't mean there aren't people who do say it. I'm not saying that it is about the oat vs out but that ppl do say it and they aren't from Newfoundland & they have even admitted to doing so =P I'm not trying to generalise
littleladylove 1 year ago
damn straight!
chocolatefreak43 1 year ago
Yes! That's a Toronto accent, all right :)
dangerousmezzo 1 year ago
im from toronto,, and i dont thing i ever pernounced toronto Toronto,, more like Tronoe.
666EatMyPanties 1 year ago
here's a stereotype...you look like you would eat your neighbor's dog.
kasm817 1 year ago
@kasm817 Thats Jokes Looool I Like This Stil Lool
movarman 1 year ago
@kasm817 you're disgusting.
what the hell is wrong with you? so small-minded that you have to resort to racism to make yourself feel better?
god.. no wonder we live in such a fucked up world!
canadianmusician99 1 year ago
@kasm817 and your obviously not an usual beefy 'extra large fries' eating american....oh wait my mistake from one of your videos....you are!
DongChenSoonXD 1 year ago
@DongChenSoonXD I want to put my DONG on your CHIN SOON.
kasm817 1 year ago
wow, amazing how people get so offended. I'm from jersey and people think we have this thick high pitched kind of talk. Example when people say Jersey, they think we say it like JOYsey. you know? But im not making a huge deal about it, just a point. Amy obviously can't master all the accents lol, but there's no need to get offensive and say she was being sterotypical. I'm sure she meant no harm
disneygirly22 1 year ago
torontoe not torontoh. torontoh is more rural canadian or irish
cpt1chris 1 year ago
THANK YOU! (giggling)
monkeygirl000 1 year ago