Subj : National Anthem
To   : ED VANCE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Jan 26 2025 01:05:00

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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