Why is it that Americans say y'all and Canadians say eh. Why is it that Canadians don't have an acent and Americans, especially southern Americans have very strong accents? What happened in evelotion that this phenomina happened? Does any body have a correct or next to best answer? I've always wondered this.
2006-06-21 13:55:40 · 5 answers · asked by nostridomius 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Everyone has an Accent ... and canadians do... (hence why they say eh?) or some canadians have almost a french accent. Most northern americans don't say Ya'll... and people in northern wisconsin and minnesota also say eh.... Everywhere you go there is differences in a language from region to region... Langages evolve over time and people who live close together are going to develop things to say that people in other areas won't. If you want really specific reasons you're going to have to go from region to region and ask an anthropologist.
2006-06-21 14:15:42 · answer #1 · answered by Jembee1720 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Canada is made up of French people, British people, and Native Americans/Inuits, etc(America=North America). American Southerners grew up in a hot, humid, slow, laid-back environment, and their speech reflects that, whereas New Englanders grew up with the culture of Yale and Harvard, so historically, proper speech was enforced at a very young age. Westerners seem to have a very neutral accent, and Northern Midwesterners have a bit of a Canadian accent(think the Secretary from Ferris Bueller's Day Off). It had nothing to do with evolution, I was born in Massachusetts and lived there for 15 years and now I'm in Florida and I'm starting to get a bit of an accent after only 2 years.
2006-06-21 14:06:27 · answer #2 · answered by dancingqueen378 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess it just had to do with the past influences. Americans wanted to set their language and accents apart from Britain so i would guess that's why our accents are strong. i can't explain the Canadians though =\
2006-06-21 14:07:24 · answer #3 · answered by Ryan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please the accent relates to a region, people living close to mountains always talk differently than people from flat lands.
Americans from OH sound like southerners to people from Windsor ON, 47 miles apart.
In Canada there are different accent BC is like Briton, Quebec is like french mixture, AB is like Texans.
2006-06-21 14:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The social isolation of social groups leads to divergent linguistic forms. Eh.
2006-06-21 13:59:46 · answer #5 · answered by valcus43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋