I'm a born and bread Canadian, but I've moved around a lot so I've picked up a few regionalisms, for example, I have to force myself to say remember instead of 'member (Ottawa valley thing), but everyone tells me I sound American. I get that all the time when I travel, but I get it at home too, when people ask me how long I've been in Canada - they're always surprised when I say I was born here. I blame it on a speach therapist I had when I was 5 - 8 who was American, that and watching too much American TV when I was a child.

About the funniest thing I ever experienced was about a decade ago now, when I made a road trip through the Atlantic provinces as a summer vacation. I stopped at the miner's museum in Cape Bretton, and took the tour that takes you under the ocean into an old mine. The tour was led by an old miner who had to be in his 70's and he had the thickest Cape Bretton accent you've ever heard. I could barely understand him, but I wound up translating what he said into "english" for a bunch of Japanese tourists who were hopelessly lost.

And for the record, it's not a couch, or a sofa, it's a chesterfield.

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