The Brexit Votes Have it: The U.K. Is Leaving The E.U.

[theboyfromxtown]

I think that my proper Canadian English would sound out of place in The East End of London, Brixton, Lancashire, Liverpool, Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales, or, indeed, anywhere in The U.K.

Most of our accents will sound different in another town but is that what you mean by "out of place".

When I was listening to the news, there were people talking in Dallas and they sounded very different to the interviewers.

[robb_k]

Most of our accents will sound different in another town but is that what you mean by "out of place".

When I was listening to the news, there were people talking in Dallas and they sounded very different to the interviewers.

Well, I grew up in Manitoba, next to the forest, in a home with 30 people at the dinner table on weekdays, and 50 on weekends, and most of them spoke Dutch, or Canadian English from the 1880s and 1890s. Despite having colleagues at school, I speak, more or less as Canadians spoke in the late 1800s to early 1900s. I did also hang out on The South Side of Chicago and in South Los Angeles from 1963-72 [[so, maybe I have a little '60s "ghetto Speak" mixed in as well.

In addition, I've dwelt mostly away from English North America since 1972, so the little I've used English [[away from visiting English-speaking family) has been using it as a "lingua Franca" speaking with Africans, Asians, Finns, and some Brits. So, I would sound "weird" to just about anyone, in terms of vocabulary, word order, currently unused grammar forms, etc. and, certainly accent.