5 1305 qs canadian american ipa fonts dos genre analysis may general interest note differences canadian american accents bearing mind types accents vary quite bit characteristic parts canada may characteristic parts us example one widespread characteristics canadian english merger short long open e g hock vs hawk although also characteristic certain areas us generally contiguous canadian areas merger thus us border area canada maintains distinction striking contrast geographically canada adjacent us points stereotypical canadian feature canadians others know including must handed canadians selfstereotype pronunciation aw house etc nucleus mid rather low sounds something like long oat spoken standard british philadelphian speakers commonalities canada adjacent us similar last mentioned feature raising nucleus ay right seems keep getting discussed context causing vowel contrast writer rider canadian upstate ny contrast height along center vowel space rather along periphery central vs back nucleus new york city upstate ny least though seems distinct canada extreme raising nucleus ay often sound fronted like widespread american ey sound eight canada extreme adjacent us raising low mid aw nucleus stereotype discussed seen discussion elsewhere canadian english deals short r open syllables american dialects lengthens raises merge long sorry rhymes story rare words sorry sorrow borrow others across us dialects although general rful areas forest orange words case adjacent us dialects e g northern wisconsin agree canada continuum striking border distinction observed hock hawk merger enough although welcome observations localised canadian border us dialects british american actor nt want make anything fact american film call canadian order explain accent apparently nt hear difference guess hear flapped think americans stereotyped characters canadians latitude