Know that feeling i'm from london and my wifes friends think i am the fith beetle :-) My wife is canadian and has lived in the UK for 8years now she has actually had an argument with someone that said she was from australia, so i suppose it goes both ways lol

Me too but then there are alot of brits in medine hat, thats south west of alberta for everyone else,

Crock Pot and thats the slow cooker by the way nothing else

Sounds good to me keeping the accent but th elingo changes thats for sure, but its awsome

Not that unusual. I was asked by a shop assistant in New Orleans airport which part of Australia I was from Nothing against Australians, just perlexed because I was also dressed like a typical Brit (Blazer, tie, etc) at the time.

If you don't speak like Hugh Grant or Mike Reid, you are therefore Australian, seems to be the case

your picture was funny. can you imagine a bar with that name in the UK?

Oops it seems someone might be directionally challenged.

Medicine Hat is actually in south EASTERN Alberta.

Cheers
Steve

While I was in Houston recently I was asked a number of times where in England I was from!! I was dressed like a typical Aussie (ie shorts and a T-shirt) most of the time.. Once during a trip to the US someone exclaimed 'you Canadians!' when I asked for 3 metres of some cable. They just can't work it out can they!?

I'm Canadian and living in Australia. I have had people tell me I sound English, Irish, American and Kiwi, no joke!

My daughter has picked up the accent, but it has taken a while. She is only 6 now, 5 when we moved to Canada, as for my wife and i, we havnt, and are very unlikely too. You may pick up the odd word but that is about it.
I work with a lot of Brits here, as there is a big military base near here. I can say with hand on heart you wont loose your brit accent as you are no longer young enough to be impresionable!
Cheers, Bruce

Not really on topic, but a cute story anyway. Some years ago I worked with a lawyer whose name was Randall, but everyone in the office called him Rudy. So one day I asked him why. Well, it turned out that he went to work in Australia for a while and when he introduced himself by saying "Hi, I'm Randy" everyone fell around on the floor laughing. After a while, someone told him what "I'm randy" meant and from then on he called himself Rudy and the name stuck even when he came back to Canada, where "Randy" is a perfectly normal name, and where, if you said "I'm Randy" it would not raise so much as an eyebrow!

And as well - again not really on topic - I have lived and worked in Canada for 30 plus years. Now I am doing some typing for an English company and I have had to put lots of words into "autocorrect" because it is so hard to remember to spell things like: recognise, minimise and programme etc. etc. instead of recognize and minimize and program. When I first came here some smarta** told me that Canadians left the "mme" off programme, about the same time they left the "ppe" off the word "shoppe"!!!

My sister, who lives in Vancouver, commented that really all the words that in English end in "ise" are much better spelled with a "z" because even in England they are pronounced as if they are spelled with "z" - I mean even in England its "recog-nyze" and not "recog-nice".

Yes 'Spanners'. We use that term to refer to something else in Scotland LOL

I think the accent change is purely subjective. My 80 year old aunt who has lived in Michigan for over 60 years has her broad Glaswegian accent when visiting Scotland but immediately flicks back to an American Twang when at home. Whereas my cousin picked up his 'twang' (not to mention love of crap beer - Bud, Michelob, Pabst et al) within 3 months of emigrating.

Can't ever see my own dulcet tones moderating but not worried. Scottish is the best accent for really dedicated swearing anyway

I wholeheartedly agree! I am very happy with my Scottish accent and have no requirement to change that. I've had several Canadian colleagues comment on how well I swear and I've even got a few of them picking up the lingo! My master plan is progressing well whooohahahaha

Gaun yersel' Big Man

You think? Your entitled to your opinion ..but it works for me!

So does the Guinness

If getting a Canuck accent is the top of your worry list then I think you are set for life - there are worse things that can happen.

BTW My daughter has a west country accent and when we go back to Liverpool to see family, everyone thinks she is weird

Whilst working alongside a South African colleague (in Canada), a Canadian workmate thought he would tease us by mimicking our accent.....

Goo day mates!

We both cracked up and remarked on his Ossie accent, confirming he could not tell any difference!

Also, being new to Canada with our 2 young sons, I have been told by Canadian friends to ensure that they keep there English accent as the Canadian girls love it!!

Darren