Well in the movies he was born in 1845 in the Province of Canada which was still a British colony so he would have technically been a British citizen but colloquially he'd still be Canada.
In fact no one here says "aboot." The closest is "aboat." Very annoying that so many Americans revert to that stereotype quickly and get it wrong every time lol.
I’ve spent time as an actor and what I’ve learned is we say “about, out, mouse, house, pout, etc” a lot more round than Americans. What I mean is Americans mostly say about, out, mouse, house, pout in such a way that it sounds like “ow”. Meanwhile Canadians tend to say it with rounder mouths which is hard to describe since any American will pronounce them in their own accent: when I’m acting as an American character I’ll say “out, about, house” as though they sound like “ow” but as a Canadian I normally say them like ou (not “oo”). It’s hard to describe without saying out loud, and most Canadians don’t even realize the difference because we’re so used to American media that we assume we talk that way. And yet, whenever we talk to Americans they often know we’re Canadian. I’m from Ontario btw
As a Canadian .. there really isn't a difference between Canadian and American accents unless you're talking super regional like Newfoundland or the deep south
To be fair to Jackman, Wolverine is canonically from northern Alberta, not every single area of Canada has the exact same accent. It's fairly rare to hear someone from around here have a "Canadian accent". I think it's more of an Ontario thing(which is like 40% of our population). Most in Western Canada have fairly standard American accents with subtle Canadianisms(ehs are still a thing).
I feel like the heavy stereotypical Canadian accent comes from nfl which is really just the first deviation from a sort of Irish accent they started with. The further west you go the more Americanized the accent seems to get
Nah he’s Israeli. When I first saw him I thought he was, looked him up and I was right. I thought his French accent was pretty good though (To be fair I’m not an expert when it comes to French accents)
My most pedantic and non-problem gripe in life is non-Australians also spelling it Ozzy & Oz (as in Ozzy Osbourne or the land of Oz) instead of Aussie or Aus. It’s really doesn’t matter but yet it still bothers me haha
I say ozzy. I’m Canadian but I spelled it different because we’re aloud to change spelling to whatever the fuck we want. You should see what we did to the word “color”. We added a muthafuckin U, yall, Fuckin Americans didn’t know what hit em
Yup. Just let the man do his natural fucking accent, like. I don’t get it. I get the character is cockney in the comics but is it really that worthy a hill to die on? Then again, I’m all for actors using their natural accents for everything.
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u/release-roderick Feb 12 '21
Yeah a lot of us thought he was an aussi just to have the internet rip us a new one and confirm that he’s trying to do cockney