Cynthia on the Toronto Accent

Responding to the Amy Walker video regarding accents. Cynthia/alumnagirl thought the Toronto accent was way, way off.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Toronto
• accents
• speaking
• Canada
• Amy Walker
• talking
• talk
• accent
• dialect
• Ontario
• stereotype

[ted1916]

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]

@ted1916 Yeah, but Amy's accent is not what one would hear on the evening news and therefore not the "standard" Canadian accent.

[Rheostatik]

@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.

[curlyliving]

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

[Snofreek1818]

Hahahah Toronto people sound different than the awesome west-coasters. :P

[TheLouisbyrne]

smug much?

[DSRflood]

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

[9raider]

@ted1916 but I do say EH and I won't deny that

[9raider]

@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.

[junkee4]

@promixcuous

that is not a torontonian attribute. rarely do i talk to someone who does that and when they do it's noticeable.

[xxxJeahxxx]

@Rheostatik Lies. Torontonian born and raised and eh comes up every few sentences for me!!!

[Madameo8]

You sound like me. :)

a torontonian.

[adirgeforher]

@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)