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Originally Posted by biguc
You've moved around a lot and lived abroad for a long time. What has that done to your accent?
You should disclose if you sound like the Swedish Chef.
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That would be much more interesting. Sadly, the effect of these dislocations (I haven't lived primarily among my fellow English-Canadians since I was a teenager) is a sort of flattening.
One funny thing is that, having had to use both US English and UK English for nearly my entire career at various venues, it's pretty normal-feeling to type a sentence like "he specialises in the blending of colors", so sometimes it's like what a foreigner, having heard about Canadian English in an aside, might assume it looks like. But to be honest, at this point I am without preference in that, and just use them all interchangably.
Spoken, I've ended up as someone who sounds like they are from the US Midwest but finds it normal to call (for example) a baby's pacifier a "dummy" rather than a "binky" or a "soother".
I'm sort of the Bulgarian bootleg "USA South Dakota Surf Champion" T-shirt of spoken English.
I assume you have fared better?