Speech pattern and typographical variations across Canada

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Originally Posted by RWin

This is why no one asks where I'm from when I go to California:

http://theweek.com/articles/453616/difficult-tell-canadian-accent-from-californian

Interesting article, I'm especially glad he cleared up the whole "lot" thing.

Nobody I know pronounces Vancouver as Vankewver. It's usually pronounced Vancouver.

I hate how articles like this always portray Canada as the same though. He compares a California accent to a Canadian one-as if there's a single one. This happens outside of language too (the bagged milk stereotype for example: I have never seen it in my life, but because it exists in one part of the country, it must exist everywhere).