Canadian English accent surprisingly uniform coast to coast: Researchers
VANCOUVER — Celebrations across Canada this weekend may look different from one community to the next, but for most of the country it will all sound the same.
Derek Denis, a post-doctoral researcher of linguistics at the University of Victoria, said more than just the stereotypical “eh?” unites Canadians.
His research comparing the recorded oral histories from 50 years ago and interviews from more recent times found that from the Ontario-Quebec border to Vancouver Island, English-speaking Canadians have a largely homogenous accent.
“There is almost no dialect region that is that large and so homogenous,” Denis said.