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   EV>Once I. visited a family near Buffalo and they took us to Niagara Falls   
   Canad   
     >I can't remember having trouble talking to workers in the Visitors Center .   
      
   For the most part minor differences in accents don't cause any problem,   
   although there are some stronger ones that can be a challenge.   
      
   Sort of off topic but that reminded me of a news story a while back where   
   a student taking some sort of language studies in the UK had come for   
   a vacation in Newfoundland, Canada. It has always been a bit more removed   
   from the rest of the country and it's well known for a wide variety of   
   accents in different areas, many that stay to themselves with little   
   contact with others or any tourist activity.   
      
   This student went to some remote village and found a really odd sounding   
   accent, or dialect I suppose since it was the words used as well. They   
   recorded people talking there and when they returned to University they   
   showed it to their professor and he was quite amazed to find the odd   
   dialect was actually near perfect English.. from about 300 years ago..   
      
   EV>I have a Amateur Radio (Ham) license and once talked with a Canadian who   
   said   
     >he was fixing frozen plumbing in his Summer home, this was in April.   
     >I think the Summer home was North of where he andhis family lived.   
      
   Up here I frequently get snow flurries  and below freezing temps in   
   April. I have to wait for the ice to break up to get my water system   
   back in and, ironically, I used to figure on about April 10th I   
   could take a chance on it, although I might get the odd freezing   
   of the lines, usually with no damage.. back to 'ironically'..   
   These days of Global Warming, it's often closer to May before I can   
   get the water system back in.. This is my own water pump and a foot   
   valve out in Georgian Bay sort of thing..   
      
   When I was still working I lived in Brampton which is down about as   
   far south as Toronto is and I recall once having fun trying to get   
   to work because we got 8 inches of snow overnight.. On May 8th..   
      
   Up where I am now we've occasionally had enough snow to build a small   
   snow man on Thanksgiving.. which up here is on about October 13th..   
      
   What was it Rhoda said? She moved to a colder city because she thought   
   she would 'keep' better..   B)   
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