Canadian province looks to Ireland to fill almost 300 jobs

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Ive no idea where the US or Canadian accents come from at all! I was never able to tell the Aussie and Kiwis accents apart until I lived there but i got pretty good at telling the difference eventually. Its only very recently that Ive started really noticing the differences in the Canadian and US accents. Im still trying to work that out. My French is pretty good but I need to learn some swear words for Saturdays match.

I'm not really interested in English-speaking Canada, it always seemed to me like Australia with no sun. However. I think it would be fascinating to live in Quebec. I find it quite amazing that French language and culture is thriving in modern North American cities such as Montreal. Crossing from New York State to Quebec must be like crossing the English Channel, except there is no Eurostar train to whisk you from New York to Montreal, like from London to Paris, alors!

Ciara,you confirm what I thought about the origins of the Aussie accent. However, I wonder if the various American and Canadian accents are based on a mixture of Cockney and Irish accented English, as there is a mixture of both in those accents, I think. There's not really any trace of any Irish pronunciation in Aussie, I think.

If Senator Brown from Massachussetts gets his way the Irish will be getting 150,000 Visas a year for skilled workers.

Curitiba, I noticed that too but then I met an Aussie anthropologist who told em that the Aussie accent comes directly from cockney. I started to listen closer and I started to notice that even more. Sirpete, are you fantasizing about me again???

Curitiba, the Aussie accent is very close to cockney. I met a guy in Australia who studied anthropology etc and he informed me of that then the more I listened to the accent the more I heard it. Still, the other 2 accents irritate me. You'll be hard pressed to find an Irish person who likes the American accent. Sirpete, have you been fantasizing again???

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I'm sure Ciaradexy has her reasons for not settling on the Saskatchewan prairies.It's hard for a woman to be laying sunning herself on her back and suddenly be known as the Ciaradexy mountain range.

The odd thing is, after a few years in Australia, the Aussies all started to sound to me like they were from Essex, and then on the occasion I would hear a real Essex accent, it sounded foreign! You just get used to the way people speak, wherever you live.

Nah. I could never live in the US or Canada. The accents would do my head in. Id miss home way too much anyway.

But you didn't go, ciara. You're not tempted by life in the prairies then?

Ive been to a few 'Work Abroad Expos' here in Dublin and seems to be a piece of p1ss to get a job there. I was offered 2 in the one afternoon and a recruitment firm is still emailing me with job offers nearly a year later!

Don't go anywhere.Stay at home with all your friends and family.The government will be giving out plenty of beer vouchers and the craic will be mighty at the weekends like it was in the 80's.Paying cash for work will again be king.I have never met anyone in Ireland who didn't eventually get a job in their field of expertise if they had a bit of patience and kept their ear to the ground.A job is only a job at the end of the day.Remember nobody ever said on their death bed they should have spent more time at work.Ireland is your home and home is where you fit in and when you do get a job that's where you are going to be the most happy.I have seen it all before meeting up with these Irish people who have left.Always trying to convince themselves they did the right thing in leaving with one half doing worse than if they stayed and the other half would have made it no matter where they were.

Paddy will have no problem with the weather in Canada,he is used to the cold as he cannot afford to heat his house in Ireland 8 months of the year as for the extreme heath thats no bodder when he was is Spain on holidays a few years ago when it got to hot for him all he did was spend most of the time in the pub,and that was when he was living on the DOLE.So i see no problems at all