I was told i had a strong canadian accent when I was away travelling quite a few times. before I left home I could never really pick out a "canadian" accent. it wasn't until I went for months without hearing other canadians that I realized we really do have a distinctive accent. not the newfies (lets face it, they may as well be a different species) or other maritimers with the "Let's go the berrr eh? it's not that ferrr, we'll take my cerr." But just regular canadian accents. I came home from nz and standing in the airport at home waiting in line for customs, it was the first time that i ever really heard our accents. I heard it again really strongly when i was in asia, hadn't met another canadian in about 3 months, and suddlenly fell in with about 10 of them.
and for the record, i don't say aboot.
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