Picking On Canadians.

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New Zealand has an odd relationship with Australia too. Many people think we are the same, the accents are similar but not the same! There is a rivalry that kind of gets out of hand sometimes.

I can't understand when people say that UK accents are the same as Australian - I guess if you are from a non English speaking country that may be so, I just cannot imagine how that is. In the UK, regional accents are very pronounced (I was born there) and also accents across class cultures are different - or they were when I was a kid 100 or so years ago. Hearing someone talk you could place them pretty precisely but also tell if the were working class or upper class. I really don't know if the class system still exists over there, but it was a thing. Even within a close area like north and south of the Mersey river the accents were distinct. My dad was from Bootle and he never lost his accent.

Having said all that I do struggle picking a Canadian Accent from a regular American accent. Some American accents are easy to pick, Southerner, a Boston accent, a New York accent - those seem easy. But the formal newscasters accent is quite hard to tell apart from Canadian. It might be helpful if they really did say 'aboot'. LOL

I still remember that episode of Johnny Bravo when he and his mother moved to Canada.

"Oh Johnny! Canada is famous for all kinds of things. Hockey, fat bacon, hockey, and my favorite free health care!"

I had a couple of good friends from Canada on an internet cat site I used to frequent. It's so sad that site no longer exists. I miss it.

I never understood why people from other countries confused Australian and English accents until I went to America. When I was there, I heard some people who were English, and it took me about five minutes to work out if their accent was English or Australian. Then I heard another man I thought was English, and I couldn't tell if he was Australian or not until he told someone he was from Sydney.

When I went to New Zealand for a week, I had only been there for a few days when the New Zealand accent started replacing my own (especially in my mind, which annoyed me because I couldn't get my Australian accent back for a while). It was like that until I had been home for about a week. My sister and I both had that happen.

Ebonics is fine until someone says 'What's poppin' n****r , then it's like Um Er Uh , 'Hello my good friend how are you this fine morning'

I would never be friends with a Canadian. Especially a French Canadian

I wrote that for my online buddy from Quebec