No - not a Hyundai related thread.
Been working in a store in Aurora ON recently and it's been like Knutsford Services on the M6. Out of my last 8 customers on Saturday, 7 were Brits and they all started out talking to me with some bizarre transatlantic accent until they heard my broad Stopfordian vernacular, then it switched into their own home grown accent - folks from Edinburgh, Colchester, Nottingham and elsewhere - even a couple from just up the road from where I am (Denton - them, not me).

So - have you kept your accent, or has yours morphed into that mid-atlantic drawl? Or do you cater to whomever you're speaking with?
My boss for example, is from my neck of the woods back in Blighty and talks about "wada" to Canadians, "water" to me (that's the business we're in, we don't just talk about water for fun).

There is no accent, its just how English sounds when they're pronounced correctly.

Eeh bah gum lad, tha' knows nought, yer great spawny eyed parrot faced wazzok!

Crikey, i've not heard that word for a long long time.

+1

OH and I both have a slight variation/inflection, he has been here two years and I have only been here eighteen months. Our youngest who is nine is truly Canadian, the eleven year old slightly less and the thirteen year old sounds a very definite mixture of English and Canadian.

I noticed when we first arrived that if we spoke to anyone British, that our English accents became even more pronounced, which I found very weird, Chris and I would listen to each other and fall about in hysterics.

Both of have picked up the "for sure" and even the odd "eh", in the late eighties I lived in London, all my friends were Irish, I soaked up a rather excellent Irish accent, something I think you are more prone to the younger you are.

I have a mid-Atlantic drawl. I could be a dj on a pirate radio station.

Or the result of a failed labotamy?.....

Seriously....still have mine (accent)....they reckoned the Labotamy would be a lost cause in my case.....

Do you put on the Lunnon accent just for when you meet up with random BE posters then?

<Falls about laughing>

Inasmuch as I can still do it, it does come out more when I hear people from the UK, yes. I think we all adapt to the manner of speaking of those around us, except Oakvillian, he doesn't sound like a character from Mind Your Language, whereas I am like that sounding after ten minutes on a conference call.

I moved back home almost 2 years ago after spending 8 years in Canada and I've lost most of my Canadian accent except apparently when I'm talking to my kids

I had to google that, but know what you mean. A stint setting up an operation in Chennai back in the mid 90's introduced me to Indian English.

Reverting, soonest.

AX

Me and Mr Cookie still sound the same but use Canadian words a lot of the time. Our now 15 year old (landed age 12) lost his accent in about 12-15 months and you would never know he is Scottish except he is fitba mad. Our 19 year old (landed age 16) sounds quite transatlantic to me (ooooooh he's gone all Sheena Easton lol).

I was visiting a local Dr in town who was of Carribean origin but sounded quite a mix and I could easily pick out a Welsh accent He told me he had spent 5 years at a teaching hospital in London and had a Welsh roommate for 4 of those years