Please tell me whether Canadian and American accents are nearly similar or not.In the rules about pronouncing t and r,is the Canadian accent the same the American accent or not?(I know the rules of pronouncing of t and r in BrE are different to AE)
That's why the terms were in quotes. My experience is that there are many distinct regional accents in the US (with tell-tale sounds) and that if someone doesn't display any of them, I can't tell where they are from and it eliminates those regional accents - that would be as close as I could come to describe a "General American" accentIf there's such a concept as a "Received American" accent and a "Received Canadian" accent (like you'd hear from each country's national news anchors), then they're nearly identical. But a thick Quebec English accent would sound very distinct from a deep south American accent.
The most frequently cited one is the use of something like “oat” for the word “out”.
So you say... But personally, I'm quite oblivious to this phenomenon.It's interesting that the thread title is "About Canadian accent" because "about" is one of the more common words that many Canadians (especially those from Ontario) pronounce differently than any USA accent.
Yeah - when I lived in England I thought I had no accent, eitherSo you say... But personally, I'm quite oblivious to this phenomenon.
Not that I pay close attention to my own pronunciation, but I don't think I speak like that, and I've never had anyone tell me that I do.
The only obvious Canadian regional accents I notice are those from Newfoundland and from Cape Breton.