I'd imagine franco-Ontarian to be the bigger offender. I've heard people from the northern bit of Ontario talk. Incomprehensible to my ears.

Even Souvette has difficulty with Acadian.

Yes, van soink laypoing vs. vingt-cing lapins.

Northern Ontario was deemed worst, then Quebec, I don't recall mention of Arcadie but there was a Cajun teacher at their school, her manner of speech was considered a harmless novelty but then she was just one.

How did the Ottawa Valley rate?

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<shudders>

Not to unfairly categorise an entire nation but from my limited contacts with people in France (I lived there for 2 years) I find many to be language snobs when tending to look down of their quebec cousins inasfar as the way French is spoken here.

There doesn't seen to be the realisation that while the French spoken in Africa is close to that of France, the French spoken in Quebec is different and in Haiti even more so.

To that I say: Big Deal!

I speak German but I find the German spoken in Zurich hard to understand. But I don't consider it to be inferior to 'High German'.

Indeed. I wouldn't be the least surprised if some French French people still regarded Voltaire's comment about Nouvelle France being 'a few acres of snow' as having a grain of truth to it.

My former f-i-l thought Quebec and by extension all of Canada to be the refuge of Petainists. He viewed all French-Canadians as we might post-war German immigrants to South America.