[Magdalen] Canadian Club.

[Molly Wolf]

I refuse to be associated in any respect with Pat Robertson.

Google "Canadian accent" and you'll get several interesting articles.  I enjoyed the BBC's  take.  We make "ou" into a weird diphthong: "ow" with a bit of "u" tacked on.  Generally vowels seem to be shorter and deeper. 

Why?  Most of English Canada's core ancestry (Nova Scotia excepted) came from the American colonies at the time of the American revolution and tended to settle in clumps away from pre-Loyalist English <disloyal!> and Roman Catholic French <Papists! shudder!>.  This population was reinforced by English and Scottish immigration in the 19th century.  Canadian English preserves some old colonial elements reinforced by Scots.  And of course Canadians conserve their distinction from American speech just because we're Canadians.

Molly
Canuck by adoption and conviction

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Dec 9, 2016, at 4:04 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I loved Coleman McGehee!
> 
>> On Dec 9, 2016, at 2:29 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm thinking that's a Tidewater accent? The Bishop of Michigan who
>> received me into the Anglican Communion was H. Coleman McGehee,
>> originally of the Tidewater region of Virginia, and he had that accent
>> bigtime. So does bobble-headed crazy televangelist Pat Robertson,
>> IIRC? To some extent?
>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:21 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> PS: a very similar oot and aggin may be heard among some older Virginians
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA