Originally Posted by annie3-4

Ill start practising a corny cringy pretendy Canadian one then Eh? Like yours..

Originally Posted by Yes-can-do

I am as Scottish as they come m'dear and have no problem being understood.

However, shall I whip my 13 year old son for daring to change his accent in such a short time?

Originally Posted by annie3-4

WTF are you on about then, I rest my case. No need for anyone to adopt phoney accents. Stay Scottish.

Originally Posted by dbd33

I am greatly saddened by the loss of my accent. I haven't gone native to the extent of using "hockey" to mean "ice hockey", I don't drive on "tires", and I don't end my sentences with "eh?". Nonethless, me voice aint what it was. I now have to concentrate in order to give Americans orgasms verbally.

Originally Posted by Yes-can-do

I never once said that my accent has changed so why would you say that I had a corny cringy pretendy Canadian accent

I don't give a hoot which accent people speak. I am flabbergasted that someone would get so upset and worked up over something so trivial In fact, this is getting a wee bit scarey

Originally Posted by annie3-4

Cree ..... shed of sorts
Canny....... nice
Claggy....... sticky.

Originally Posted by daft batty

Impressive. Did you know or google?

Not sure about the "of sorts" its a shed. Canny is more than nice, its affectionate.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian

Cree can also be a wicker-work basket. (see Creel, a fish basket)

Originally Posted by annie3-4

Well you SHOULD or youll never fit in dont ya know?

Originally Posted by annie3-4

I know cos Im from Durham originally, my Dad used to say those words all the time.

Originally Posted by Mr Lee

Don't worry Annie - I'll stick up for you...


...to an extent!

In my former life we had a guy from Stoke come and visit the office where I worked in Manchester. He was a big boss in the Head Office in the states and had obviously succumbed to the disease of which you speak. Everything was "awesome" and it sounded like he was putting a stateside drawl onto his north-midlands accent. That combined with his polished white smile and the fact that he looked like he spent three hours a day on a sunbed merely added to the impression that this was someone trying too hard to fit in with his American puppet-masters. He'd only been over there three years.

As for me: Well - here in the backwaters of the fringes of the GTA I noticed some people struggling to understand what I was talking about - so I found myself using some North American words in order to get them to understand...

One thing I steadfastly refuse to do, however, is change my accent so they get, in effect, their language spoken with a Mancunian accent. I feel then that everybody wins.

So it's "gaaahbidge" not "goirbedge" I put out on a Monday night, when I need a pee I go to the "woshroom", not the "warshrum" and I "line-up" at the counter with everybody else - the word "queue" not being in in the vocabulary here.

I still ask for "toMAAAHtoes" on my sandwich though. My mouth is just not built to say "toMAYtoes".

On a more positive note to my fellow Northerners, I've already got one of my most steadfastly Canadian work-colleagues swearing like a true Manc - "You're talkin' SHITE!" now being a part of her vernacular.

Originally Posted by dbd33

I am greatly saddened by the loss of my accent. I haven't gone native to the extent of using "hockey" to mean "ice hockey", I don't drive on "tires", and I don't end my sentences with "eh?". Nonethless, me voice aint what it was. I now have to concentrate in order to give Americans orgasms verbally.