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Thread #124724   Message #2759118
Posted By: meself
03-Nov-09 - 11:08 PM
Thread Name: BS: U.S./Canadian culture exchange
Subject: RE: BS: U.S./Canadian culture exchange
"Ms Aiken has that distinctive rural Ontario accent"

The thing I found really distinctive in her accent was the drawled long "i"s - the cars were "laanned up for mawls" - I would never have identified that as rural Ontario, which, if anything, more usually has very "tight" "i"s - more like "lyeened up for myeles" (if you follow me). However, I haven't spent much time around the Orillia/Barrie area, so I might have missed something ....