My mum paid lots of money so I could speak proper.

I dont think I do though my accent is a mixture of everywhere I have ever lived heavily influenced by the accent of whoever I am talking to.

I save my posh voice for telling people off.

Daddy!!!!

Where did you get a picture of my dad?

Rob Anders is your Father??????

No.

Does he look my dad too?

Now it all makes sense......sorry SP

I cannot bring myself to say the T word in a Canadian acccent either, it just sounds so fake. I dread going to Subway...

I've sadly resorted to saying "tooona" as no-one can possibly understand the completely different pronunication of "tyuna". "Warta" is another anomoly in a fast food restaurant and one must choose whether to give up or just aim for "waaderr". But that's me wiv me saff ingland accent, innit. I think some UK peeps with a more northern hint are half way there already with some of their vowels sounds which are more in keeping with the Canadian ear.

I speak very slowly with my Surrey accent - barth, carstle, cahn't, etc. Had some fun at work last week - a "scenah-ree-oh" should have been a "scen-air-ee-oh", a guy called "Grahnt" should have been "graaant" (with a short 'a' sound), and when we shouting "stop", they all took the piss, and did a fake English accent of "stop" back to us - when of course we all know it should be "staahp"

Get over yerself and get down with the dudeness. You know you want to.



I bet you still say "tater", right ?



R.

Interesting post.... And avoiding the north / south divide hijack to the post...


I having been born in Montreal, and having gone to an American school, arrived in London aged 10 and was put into a private 'prep school'...

Anyway - a week of severe bullying but the locals, about my accent gave way to me changing my accent to 'fit in' in about 24 hours.....

Since then, I've always had the ability to change my accent to the accent of the person I'm talking to, or hte country I'm in - such as Australia / USA / Ireland etc....

Also - my mother (originally from Ireland but has an Canadian / N American accent) and I have alwasy spoken very much like Canadians in our own homes - apart from the 'about / couch' oddness that comes with it.#

So - a day in to Canada, I'm almost 100% Canadian, and only change if I'm chatting to my Ozzie or UK mates.

Some people feel a failure for loosing thier accent, and therefore their identity, however, I thing there are far more important things that define this, and wonder why people get so hung up on it...... I personally can't help it, and never have been able to....

Anyway - as for the N/S thing - my best mate is from Leics, and frankly their accent is nothing apart from odd!!!!

Bx

That could be one reason why me and my hubby have never had much of a problem being understood - we both have northern (ish) accents - me a slightly posh sounding Yorkshire one (thanks to mum insisting I did elocution lessons - my mum was a bit of a Hyacinth Bouquet bless her), him a lincolnshire one (his is the ish one.... ).

Beyond some differences in what things are called, we haven't had a problem at all, but I have been told that I sound very "English" by a few people.

I don't see why we should adopt an expression foreign to us. The chance that someone retailing fruit parts in Canada has American-English as a first language is negligible so they may as well learn all variations of the names of their wares.

I've been here 10 years and still get "oh I love your accent" all the time.

I know a guy from Clydebank who's been in Canada 20-odd years. He still speaks with a broad, totally unchanged Glaswegian accent, with one exception... ask him where he lives and he says, "Tronno".

HI all,

How funny!! Ive had a good laugh reading this! I live in the Midlands but all my southern friends say "all the way up there" I come from Kent and Sussex! My sister in law is in Leeds (Halifax) she thinks North is Scotland! I'm now thinking about taking lessons to speak Canadian!!! to save any embarrassment in our future life

Nikki
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Does he wear a string vest and slobber a lot

R.