Oh, Twitter. How you have changed my life. I mentioned that I loved the Southern accent that Barbara (from the Daily Grommet) has, and she replied with:
@AngellaD Have fun “Oat” with your hubby tonight! 
…talk about accents, girlfriend… and thanks for the long chat. You are awesome.
Wait. I say “oat”?
I mentioned that I most surely do not have an accent, to which my lovely friends replied that I SO HAVE AN ACCENT. I threw it out there that maybe I should do a video blog. The response was that YES. I SHOULD.
I might even do it. I just need to know what exactly to say. Are there any words that you would like this Canadian girl to say? Or any phrases you’d like to hear with a Canadian “accent”?
The lovely Metalia wants me to say, ““I’m going out and about to get a bagel. It’s my goal.”
Wait. I say “bagel” and “goal” with an accent? Really? I don’t believe it.
Let me know what words you’d like to hear/questions you’d like me to answer, and if I get brave enough I’ll post something after I retrieve the kidlets this weekend.
Ha! I know what you mean. The American peeps say I have an accent too and I have NO IDEA what they are talking about. Seriously. (Though I do think that Shawn says “out” and “about” funny, but I blame it on him being from Eastern Canada.)
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I’m not from Canada, but I grew up in Minnesota and people always want me to say these words too. Another one that I get asked to say all the time is “roof” (as in what’s on top of a house, not what a dog says) and “bag” (along with bagel).
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Everyone has an accent! When Matt was travelling the states, he loved that people thought they didn’t have accents…just because someone lives in North America, it doesn’t make them accent neutral, haha
I’m constantly teased aboot my accent…Matt’s convinced I sound like Yogi Bear
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Okay, so my words for you are “pasta” and “process”
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Carrisa (andsosheblogs) claims that she doesn’t have an accent. This is a total lie, as she has a darling southern accent.
I’m with Lisa – I need to hear you say pasta. And, I’ll add taco to that. But, only because my mom used to work for a Canadian guy who pronounced both those words very strangely.
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I say aboot just to mess with people
I’m going to Nova Scotia in the fall, I can’t wait to hear the maritime accent!
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Metalia wants to hear you say “oot and aboot” which we so DO NOT say. I have never heard one Canadian from across this great land say aboot. I don’t think we have accents at all. We are plain vanilla.
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Words I have attempted to eliminate from my ‘at work’ vocabulary because if I say them my patients fail to take me seriously:out, about, roof, decal, bathroom and eh (of course!). The strange thing is that the longer we are away the more we notice the accent our Canadian relatives have. My husband once had a friend of his burst into laughter after he answered his cellphone. Hubby had been talking to his dad and our (American) friend insisted that he had suddenly switched gears and started talking ‘Canadian’ after he answered the phone.
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I lived in Canada for two years, and I agree that Canadians do not say “aboot”…many of them do say “aboat” though, as do my Minnesotan cousins and my Wisconsonite friends.
And I have to agree that you do have a bit of a Canadian accent. But then, we all have our own unique speech patterns.
I’m from the Midwestern States which has the flattest, most boring accent ever, but when I traveled in England I got teased many times about my funny accent. And when my friend (a fellow Nebraskan) and I admitted we kinda liked the accent we heard in the voices of people in Bristol because it was easy to understand and sounded similar to our own speech patterns, our London friend with the posh accent burst into laughter and informed us that the accent we were talking about was considered a “hick” accent in England.
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You might say “aigs” instead of “eggs,” so add that to the script.
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Aboot? Oat?
I am convinced us Saskatchewanians do not have the accent of which people speak. And you so don’t have an accent.
Or I have the same one. Whatever.
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hmmm…words I’d like to hear you say:
pasta
Mazda
plaza
montage
sorry
dollar
process
project
house
Chrysler
gas
again and against
fertile
salami
drama
that’s it for now!
haha!
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