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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Most probably are, but I know that at least two are Francophone Montrealers and their accents sound like they're from the US. They don't even give off the linguistic cues that identify English speaking Ontarians to Americans.
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Maybe they went to McGill?
Anyway, I find that Anglo-Montrealers can be the most American-sounding of English-speaking Canadians, possibly because living in a francophone environment they don't have as much ambient societal reinforcement of classic Anglo-Canadian speech traits like "eh" and "aboat", etc. At least that's always been my theory. A lot of Anglo-Montrealers (especially those of Jewish or Italian origin) almost have a NYC-style nasal accent when speaking in English.