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Originally Posted by Sarah89
To a degree. But I'm not really buying that totally as even upper crust and well educated Toronto folks have the typical Canadian ''tell's'' in their speech. They may speak better than say a lower class person without much education but they still sound Canadian even in the mildest sense.
Kathleen has studied languages and has studied all the vowel and speech characteristics. I'm sure she knows what Canadian Raising is and is more than skilled at suppressing it during public speaking hence her quasi American accent. Even John Tory displays a Canadian Accent.
The thing about the Canadian accent is you literally have to live out of Canada or study linguistics (which she has) to even be aware of it. 90% of anglo Canadians don't even know they speak differently than ''The Americans on TV''.
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I’m not sure of your point. One would normally expect a Canadian to speak with a Canadian accent, no?
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