Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    CANACHAT    |    Canadian chat conference    |    1,128 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 613 of 1,128    |
|    Mike Powell to ROB MCCART    |
|    National Anthem    |
|    20 Jan 25 08:57:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 611.canada@1:2320/105 2bf39426       REPLY: 610.canada@1:2320/105 2bf3896b       PID: Synchronet 3.20a-Linux master/acc19483f Apr 26 202 GCC 12.2.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.20-Linux master/acc19483f Apr 26 2024 23:04 GCC 12.2.0       BBSID: CAPCITY2       CHRS: ASCII 1       > Re: the 'Accent'.. When most Americans think of a Canadian accent they       > think of what is mostly a Northern or Eastern accent actually used by       > very few of us. You expect us to say 'aboot' instead of about. For the       > most part the bulk of us have no true accent, we just say words exactly       > as they are spelled but, like in the USA, there are areas that do have       > a distinctly different accent and often use different words for things.              When I was in Canada, I noticed that most of the Canadians I ran into had       no accent. They were sometimes difficult to understand, though, because by       no accent I mean they also didn't accent any of their syllables. If they       spoke fast, it was difficult to catch some words.              This would have been in Ontario, mostly north of Lakes Superior and Huron.              The few people I ran into that had accents either sounded like a Red Green       character, sounded slighly British, or sounded slightly French. That was       very few people.              Mike               * SLMR 2.1a * Four snack groups: frozen, crunchies, cakes and sweets.       --- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux        * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)       SEEN-BY: 105/81 106/201 128/187 129/305 153/7715 154/110 218/700 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/110 114 300 307 317 426 428 470 664 700 705 291/111       SEEN-BY: 292/854 320/219 322/757 396/45 460/58 712/848 902/26 2320/0       SEEN-BY: 2320/105 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 2320/105 229/426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca