# How many Canadians here..please raise your hand and say "eh" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 20, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020 "2000-03-20T20:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/41 "2000-03-21T10:54:00Z")
So she’s actually Swiss? ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/42 "2000-03-21T11:04:00Z")
Nope, she’s from Québec. Thus the French-Canadian accent. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/43 "2000-03-21T11:11:00Z")
I get it now, eh. Wow, how desperate must one be to consider the Eurovision Song Contest something worth to change your nationality over… I’m surprised Canada took her back! I would have said, “hey, YOU wanted to become Swiss, now stay there!”. It’s not like Switzerland would ATTACK Canada over it 😃 But am I wrong in thinking that most French Canadians do NOT have such thick accents? The ones I encountered hardly has an accent at all! FWIW, in Moosie’s case (she sent me a voice file once), it is VERY hard to tell for me that she’s not an English Canadian. Same goes for the ones I met IRL. I _am_ able to tell a Canuck from a Yankee, however 😉 OK, enough Dutch interference in this All-Maple Leaf thread, eh?? * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![ghoti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@ghoti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghoti)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/44 "2000-03-21T12:50:00Z")
tomndebb: NW Ontario is a state of mind. ---
**Author:** ![RussellM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed8c4c/32.png) [@RussellM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RussellM)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/45 "2000-03-21T12:56:00Z")
It’s not just Canadians, eh. It’s also very common in Edinburgh, although some people here, eh, add it in the moddle of, eh, sentences and not just at the end. Canada, Edinburgh - is there anywhere else? Russell ---
**Author:** ![drollman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f04885/32.png) [@drollman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drollman)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/46 "2000-03-21T15:28:00Z")
Hey, Wally. I wish I could afford an new heart like you. BTW…I’m gonna be in the old neighbourhood in April. If you wanna get together and watch me drink a beer (since I assume you are still recovering) lemme know. I’m proud to be Canadian! We’re awfully nice to strangers, Our manners be our curse. It’s cool in many ways to be Canadian, It isn’t that we’re better, It’s just that we’re less worse. (Proud To Be Canadian–The Arrogant Worms) * * * My fate keeps getting in the way of my destiny. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/47 "2000-03-21T15:36:00Z")
Grandparents born in Canada, Quebec and I-don’t-know-where. I live an hour from the border. Close enough? ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/48 "2000-03-21T16:29:00Z")
Cold, Moosie saves that french accent for very special occasions 😉 * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![MLAW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc8723/32.png) [@MLAW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLAW)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/49 "2000-03-21T17:56:00Z")
Navan, Ontario here (20+ minutes from downtown Ottawa). My mother is French-Canadian (Ontario French, not to be confused with the Quebec French). She married a limey (England, english). Has yet to lose her french accent, only it’s not a thick. Dad gets a hoot out of bugging her - “going to get my hairs cut”. Celine Dion: her speaking voice has a stronger accent than the singing one. ---
**Author:** ![bedboy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@bedboy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bedboy3)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/50 "2000-03-22T14:16:00Z")
I had to bump this to the top, it was looking all lonely on page 2 and the american post was at the top [http://allclipartsite.com/images/smiley/smileface27.gif](http://allclipartsite.com/images/smiley/smileface27.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/51 "2000-03-22T15:09:00Z")
Bedboy, stop linking those images in here. The source site isn’t excactly speedy… sooner or later, no one will answer this thread when it is impossible to load! Try and restrict image use to a minimum, i.e. only when it DOES serve a purpose. [extreme sarcasm] (Errrmm… By no means am I a moderator or administrator for the Striaght Dope. Please, don’t sue my ass off for helping a newbie out 😃 ) [/extreme sarcasm] * * * **Coldfire** _Voted **Poster Most Likely To Post Drunk** _ * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020/52 "2000-03-22T15:39:00Z")
Another Canuk living in our nation’s capital (in case you don’t know that is Ottawa) * * * Scoobysnax Save water drink beer! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-canadians-here-please-raise-your-hand-and-say-eh/15020.md?page=2)