Why do Americans think we Canadians have an accent?

I wouldn't really worry aboot it, eh?

Why does everyone think we Texans have an accent?

Why do North Americans think of Americans as different?

Listen guy.. you ALL have accents.. alright buddy? It's true friend.

Because you do. Move to Kansas, and talk like the people there do.

No, you guys have an accent. I don't think a person really notices the dialect in the area they live.

Do I don't. I sound no different from an American. I do NOT say "Aboot" or any of that crap.

Not in southern Ontario we don't, which Canadians have you talked to and where were they from? I'm just curious.

It's nothing personal OP. It's just where you live. If everyone around you speaks the same way you can't tell that you have an accent. For instance I'm from the northeastern US and the first time I visited the South someone jokingly called me a damn Yankee. I laughed and asked how he knew and he knew and he said he could just tell I sounded like one cause of my accent. First time I ever realized I an accent really just based on the fact that I was around people from the northeast my whole life.

I play in a recreational hockey league and you can always tell the Canadians by their speech, especially the French ones.

Americans AND Canadians have accents that, like all countries varies from region to region. Some English people are accent free.

Folks from Alberta say aboot, eh!

I'm friends with a couple people from Hamilton who live in my town. I've also traveled around the provinces of Ontario and Quebec quite a bit.

Hmm, its more "aboat" than "aboot", but there are subtle difference in standard Canadian English and standard American English accents. Frankly, I like the Canadian accent.

Listen to people from way upstate NY and the accent is pretty close to the Canadian one. Regional more than national differences I guess.

We watched episodes of "You Can't Do That on Television", alright?

I don't know where those people are from. They are Canadians. That's all we know.

We all have a bit of an accent, but it's always the "other guy" who has the really annoying one.

Most Canadians from Ontario to British Columbia sound the same. Then there's the Maritimes and Newfoundland/Labrador, yikes.

I grew up in Pennsylvania; and now listening to them I can't stand that accent. It's all relative and what we're used to.

Not sure I agree with your premise OP, although I think that southern Ontario had a very mild 'canadian' accent. Kind of like BC, although thats kind of got a lame hipster valley thing going.

But Newfies on the other hand.. They have a language all to thwmselves.

Here's a little newfie 101 for you:


Where ya l'ongs to - where are you from?

Oh me nerves, ye got me drove - you're driving me crazy

ow's she cutting, me cocky? - how's it going, my friend?

Oh, soary... Didn't see you buds already talked aboat it.

Aboot

Everybody has an accent reagrdless of what language you speak.

Seriously.. I know three Canadians from Ontario snd Skype with them often, they have a Canadian accent. They say "aboat" and stuff like that but it goes way beyond just the "ou" sounds, they have a very different intonation that's difficult for me to put into words. It is a friendly accent that sounds a little bit goofy but none the less inviting.

I grew up in South Ontario.. Yes you do.

some english people are accent free! hahahahaha

Because you do, eh. What are you on aboot?

Newfies communicate via clicks, whistles and various smells...

Oh really? I live in Alberta and I don't hear "aboot" or "aboat". Seriously? But of course you would somehow be the expert.

On the other hand, it's only one word.

Now take the accents from the SE United States. Now that's an accent, and growing up in the NE United States it always grated on my ears (and still does).

You're wrong. Most Canadians sound like ignorant, uneducated rubes from hill-country.