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Do Canadians even use their real accents?

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#1 ·
Are Canadian wrestlers told not to use their original accent?

I been watching shows on DIY/HGTV, and I realized a lot of the people are Canadians. 90% of the time they sound the same, but they often use their "lazy long vowels", and "eh", among other things.

Lazy long vowels, I mean like when they say "progress", it is like a "ooo" sound like pru-gress.


Anyways, when I watch wrestling there is a ton of wrestlers from Canada, but I personally never notice their accent, ever.
 
#9 ·
USA has far more distinct accents than Canadians do, just look at Boston, New York, Texas , Alabama etc . Canadians really only have 2 distinct ones like Francophone Quebecois speaking English which makes sense as English isn't their first language and eastern Canada like Newfoundland , PEI etc which has the more "stereotypical" Canadian accent and even then it really isn't as bad as Americans say it is. The rest of Canada speak "normal" though but will use different phrases that the USA doesn't really use
 
#3 ·
You can lose accents if you move away from where you live, so that could factor in to it. I don't watch these shows myself, but I'm guessing they take place somewhere in the United States. If the host is a Canadian but has lived in California or New York for the last 10 years, they probably aren't going to have a heavy accent anymore.

Kevin Owens has a very noticeable accent. Edge does as well.
 
#8 · (Edited)
Canadians don't have an accent. There's only a couple of words they use slightly differently which is not enough to call an accent.

I ridicule their attempts as distinguishing themselves from the average North (geographic) American though. It's hilarious how they keep harping on bringing up "eh" and "aboot" and essentially make that their entire basis for claiming to have an accent or difference from Americans.

None of the Canadians I ever interacted with in my 10 years in Canada ever said proogress. That's a new one.
 
#18 ·
"aboot" is said by french-canadians.

the maritime province people all have accents.

some albertans have accents.

we don't have to have a basis that we sound different from americans when a lot of americans have their own type of accents. we generally don't sound the same and they don't even sound the same depending on location.


you talk and generalize far too many things about canada when i think you only lived here for about 5-10 years. :kobe8
 
#15 ·
There is a slight difference between typical Canadian pronunciation and American. I can often pick out a Canadian talking when I hear one - like Russel Peters, which made his "Canadian whites" accent jokes even funnier because he still sounds Canadian himself in that video clip.

However, as Stinger Fan said, the most distinct regional accents are primarily from Quebec eastward. Newfoundland and the Cape Breton area of Nova Scotia have very pronounced accents. Quebec French and New Brunswick French are different from each other and both noticeable. Most PEI folks use lots of british-isms, like 'slippy' for 'slippery'. In general, people on this coast speak a bit more nasally, or maybe it's something else that distinguishes the tone, but I can definitely tell when I hear a down east voice. We do sound different.

There are pockets of unconventional accents and speech patterns elsewhere but I've yet to meet anyone who actually talks like the Canadian stereotype or uses some of the pronunciations attributed to us. I'm pretty sure I've never even heard 'aboot', let alone 'pru-gress', outside deliberate comedic use. 'Eh' however; well, I use 'eh', and for all I know maybe I'm saying 'aboot' and 'pru-gress' but am totally oblivious because I don't hear my own accent.
 
#19 ·
I think there are distinctive accents throughout Canada. Even Torontonians have noticeable inflections that I notice compared to people from my hometown, which is only a 3.5 hour drive away. As Magic aptly noted, Quebecers and people from the Maritime provinces each have their own distinctive accents as well. I'm not as familiar with the west coast, but I'm sure there are some subtle differences there as well.
 
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