Re: Canadian accents - Differences between American & Canadian

Canadian and American Accents

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Comedy

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• Supersmooth007
• GrandpaJim777
• accents
• Canada
• USA
• dialect
• regions
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[AlyssaFgt]

you live in the prairies? is that...saskatchewan?

[GrandpaJim777]

@AlyssaFgt You got it....Saskatchewan it is.

[kaleem091983]

great video grandpa, Can I call you grandpa? I lost my grandpa as a baby.

[GrandpaJim777]

@kaleem091983 Hey, I would be proud if you called me grandpa. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[GrandpaJim777]

@kaleem091983 Hey, I would be proud if you called me grandpa. Thanks for watching and the comment.

[chaolan77]

'anyway..s' ...?? It's "ANYWAY" .. there is no S. Makes you sound like a 14 year old girl from LA. Sorry, I'm being rude, but.. anyway.. that's how I feel !

-- from lazy/bad grammar hater

[GrandpaJim777]

@chaolan77 Also see that "any ways" is a variant of the words "any way".

Word Origin & History

anyway

1560s, any way; variant any ways (with adv. gen.) attested from c.1560. One-word form predominated from 1830s.

[GrandpaJim777]

@Mickeydudie I'm from the prairies too! Saskatchewan to be exact. I use "eh" quite a bit, but not as much as some of my friends. I also say "Saskatchewin". That's the correct way isn't it? LOL

[GrandpaJim777]

@chaolan77 Ummm, I am a 14 year old girl from LA!

[rainbowrants]

In ontario noone says about abuuut. or anything strange. So I never understand those 'making fun of canadian accent' videos...Now I understand It must be somewhere else in Canada.

[ColtraneTaylor]

Do people outside Ontario sound as American as they do? Do all Canadians sound this way when saying 'how urrrrr yehheuuu?'

I just hate the American/Canadian 'r' sound, it truly annoys me. Isn't this just the valley girl accent of old? I doubt Canadians or Americans in the 60s talked like this.

[Lazybabyz]

so basically canadians speak better english than americans, right, got it.

[Lazybabyz]

i cant ell the difference, rarely anyway

[billboardnumber1]

Well if you didn’t know the the following were Canadians, then it is safe to say there is not much difference between American and Canadian Accents.

1. John Candy 2. Peter Jennings 3. Michael J. Fox 4. Jim Carrey 5. Mike Myers (well of course he was acting out as a brit in Austin Powers so that’s an exception) 6. Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd.

All are Canadians. Do they sound any different from the Americans? There ya go.

[ralphyization]

We went to Southern Michigan for a hockey tournament, and they were teasing US about our Canadian accent??!! They say ice hackey. we say hockey! I told them that it's assumed to be ice hockey(is there anything else?!!) Good times, though. Friendly folk. They just don't know how funny they sound! (to me) haha!!

[ralphyization]

@BRPhillis I've said creek. I live on a border city, and you can cross the "ditch", and fairly, accurately pinpoint the Canadians and Americans fairly easily. We say eh, they say huh? haha!

[Plashing]

Does anyone else feel a bit creeped by the intro? Grandpa Jim? lol