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AltaGuy · 09-21-2019, 04:00 PM

Most accents are moving toward North American - neutral these days because of technology.

A place like Calgary is actually really close to North American neutral because of its young age and people from many different places. Atlantic Canada and Ontario have both had accents develop before television, etc, but even then the accents are moving very quickly toward North American neutral as well.

Most of the Western US and Western Canada are basically North American neutral with slight differences here and there - mostly vocabulary.

We'll all be speaking with the same accent soon enough. You just don't have many isolated communities anymore.

09-21-2019, 04:00 PM	#33
AltaGuy AltaGuy has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him. He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: At le pub... Exp:	Most accents are moving toward North American - neutral these days because of technology. A place like Calgary is actually really close to North American neutral because of its young age and people from many different places. Atlantic Canada and Ontario have both had accents develop before television, etc, but even then the accents are moving very quickly toward North American neutral as well. Most of the Western US and Western Canada are basically North American neutral with slight differences here and there - mostly vocabulary. We'll all be speaking with the same accent soon enough. You just don't have many isolated communities anymore.