Thread: Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada
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Old Posted Jan 26, 2014, 5:50 PM
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Three examples. I chose them because they're among my favourite local words/phrases, but also because all three of these folks have different accents.

This guy is definitely from St. John's:

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This guy is definitely from Placentia Bay (it's my favourite of Newfoundland's accents. VERY Irish, and such a lovely sing-song way of talking):

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And this woman, I suspect, spent many years on the mainland. I can't place her accent locally at all:

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