Canadians Take an American Dialect - Results

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[itschriisty]

michigan here lol 😆 Florida has ALOT of Northern transplants. its pop, and rollie pollies are potato bugs 🐛🤣. when I lived down south for a little while I was refered to a northerner who has an accent and draws out my words too long in TN, and TX 🤣🤣

[sneffie]

"Looks like America's on fire." accurate.

[IDontWantThisStupidHandle]

I mean, Snowbirds are a thing -- Florida has a huge francophone population in the summer (relative to the almost exclusively anglophone and hispanophone populations in that area) because so many of our elderly québécois(es) retire half the year there.

[kimhaze]

Florida has a lot of Northern transplants that's why the accent is similar. I grew up in Fl and have a slight southern accent but not much of one, but probably because my father's from Pennsylvania and my Mother is Canadian.

[haydenspaghettio]

Someone from western Washington here! Potato bugs do NOT look like potato’s! They are these tiny bugs if you frighten them they will curl up into a tiny ball and maybe then they look like potato.

[ThinWhiteAxe]

North Carolina has a hockey team with a huge following for some reason 🙃

[nitsirkroy]

I’m from Buffalo and you are welcome here lol. Its so funny hearing you talk about us with the snow, hockey, and shopping.

[salamannader]

I'm from West Michigan (right near Grand Rapids) and you sound very much like people from around here lol 😂 Michiganders definitely use pop over soda. We also have the Grand Rapids Griffins and lots of lake effect snow ❄️ 😂

[heatherkorynta]

I can't believe it didn't mention Minnesota.

[MakeyJu]

Alaska is USA because it was Russian first and then we sold it to USA :)

[mystra]

How you pronounce Florida is quite similar to how some Floridians sound saying it. Flaw-ri-duh or Floor-i-duh I usually hear (the latter could be a transplanted NY/LI thing).

[madcasual]

My grandma is from Grand Rapids, you do sound like her I guess that’s why I never thought you had strong accents! She thinks I sound super southern bc I’m from Ohio 😂 my boyfriend who lives even further south from me says I don’t sound country at all

[hgp]

apparently i'm from fort lauderdale my sister is from las vegas my mom is from new york city and my brother is madison wisconsin or reno

[charlesbower]

I live in northern New York along the trout river border but the Cornwall border is only like a half hour away ... We don't feel like we have any kind of accent and we call soda soda, not pop where I live. I don't feel like you 2 have any distinct accent ... You sound like we do in northern New York.

[kairallison]

there are technically 2 different "potato bug"s
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the Colorado potato beetle which is a small yellow and black, striped beetle that eats potato plants and is considered a garden pests.
their baby form is really bad for eating the roots of many many plants with a preference for root vegetables like potatoes and carrots.

you could consider them to be the "true" potato bug.

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the other is an Isopod called the woodlouse.
they have many common names including potato bug, sow bug, and pill bug.
they are flat, armoured bugs that curl up into a ball when scared.
They are considered good for gardens because they help break down dead and decaying plant matter without harming live plants in anyway.

I think these were the ones being asked about in the quiz.
but they can essentially be considered the "false" potato bug because they actually have nothing to do with potatoes.
I don't even know why they have the potato bug nickname. they don't even look remotely similar to the potato beetle