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Old 04-08-2009, 09:46 AM   #219
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Originally Posted by Montana Moe View Post
I don't know if I would call it an accent, but there are definitely inflections on certain words that I hear from Albertans that are distinctly Canadian.

It may not be as prominent as a Newfie, (which I honestly have never heard) but it is still there.
Oh, there definitely is.

For some odd reason, I tend to "absorb" the accent of whichever region I am in. If I'm in Montana for more than 3-4 days, I actually start to pick up that Montana Drawl.

It happened to me when I was in Hawaii as well, and after two weeks there I was fully saturated. When I got home from, I flipped on the TV to catch up on the news. I even started to notice that the news anchors had a tiny bit of an accent.

I think it's the heavy Scottish influence, myself.

Obviously now that I'm back home I don't hear it anymore, and am back talking with the a-typical Western Canadian accent.
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