There's the GTA accent then there's the Toronto Mans accent and lingo. The lingo is getting to the point of being unintelligible like cockney. And I'm pretty sure it's super annoying to most people over the age of 30 from outside of here.
Toronto Mans are overwhelmingly "ethnic" but you do get some white yutes that are semi-fluent in the language.
All these guys speak normally IRL but would have grown up dropping bare lingo when catchin' a flex and ballin' up with their crodies and some shordies on the reg at their bredren's dukes' yawd in Scarbs or Bram or DT or whereveraz.
I can see a time coming soon when young people from outside this area will recognize what a Toronto Mans is and be able to identify Toronto slang like people can recognize cockney. Okay, not that popular, but you know what I mean.
I had a young coworker from Kingston who spent first half of his life in Ottawa. Half Italian background from his dad, but he's from The Soo aka Sault Ste. Marie where they of course have a big Italian population. Mom from Ottawa. He went to UWO and befriended lots of GTA guys. He did not develop the accent or anything like that, but he started using some lingo in normal conversation like saying "Man, I was so cheesed..." as in pissed off. And I was like, "yo fam, you movin' like a Toronto Mans now, eh".
I don't know how many recognizable accents/slang/speech patterns there are in this country, but GTA and its Toronto Mans sub category is one of them. Hoser/Canadian, Native, Inuit, Franco, Franco equivalent of Hoser, Acadian, East Coast and Newf are the obvious ones I suppose.
Some various sub categories as well, of course. Like that one SHH posted a while back about some lady that is the chancellor MUN or something where it sounded like a Brooklyn accent. Newfoundland as an island is already isolated enough as it is, but then there's pockets all over the rock that were or pretty much still are isolated. Like the US Mid-Atlantic islands in the Outer Banks off of NC for example that have a mix of Southern and British but actually sound more British. Hell, doesn't even have to be an island. Boston, NY, Philly and Baltimore all have their own accents.
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