# N.Y. Times reporter's dialect

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 2, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529 "2016-10-02T21:26:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529/1 "2016-10-02T21:26:16Z")

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[Here](http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/10/02/how-the-nyt-got-hold-of-trumps-tax-records.cnn) is CNN’s interview with Susanne Craig, the reporter who received part of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax filings. She speaks a totally standard “middle” American dialect, with the exception of the short “a”, e.g. pronouncing “taxes” as “toxes” and “Jack” as “Jock”. The rest of her speech doesn’t indicate any particular dialect to me. What is the source of this dialect? It sound affected.

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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529/2 "2016-10-02T21:30:59Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> [Here](http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/10/02/how-the-nyt-got-hold-of-trumps-tax-records.cnn) is CNN’s interview with Susanne Craig, the reporter who received part of Donald Trump’s 1995 tax filings. She speaks a totally standard “middle” American dialect, with the exception of the short “a”, e.g. pronouncing “taxes” as “toxes” and “Jack” as “Jock”. The rest of her speech doesn’t indicate any particular dialect to me. What is the source of this dialect? It sound affected.

She’s Canadian, if that helps any.

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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529/3 "2016-10-02T22:11:35Z")

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In what part of Canada do they speak exactly like me, except for one vowel, which comes out extremely different?

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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529/4 "2016-10-02T22:24:12Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> In what part of Canada do they speak exactly like me, except for one vowel, which comes out extremely different?

She’s from [Calgary](http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/former-calgary-herald-writer-at-heart-of-trump-tax-return-bombshell).

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**Post date:** [October 2, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/n-y-times-reporters-dialect/767529/5 "2016-10-02T22:38:09Z")

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Yup, Canadian. When she says she talked to “Jack about taxes”, that gives it all away. If it makes OP feel better, I detect a touch of New Yorker.