Autumn Phillips Quotes

People love to drop in 'you betcha' as often as they can.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.

Everybody wants to say who they are and where they're from. And the easiest and cheapest and most universal way of doing that is through their accent.

I speak Hindi with a Punjabi accent, not a Haryanvi accent.

The language in New Mexico is very different. At first when you hear the speech here, you don't really know what to do with it, but then I just went with it, because as a writer as well as a translator I do believe that translated words are not different names for the same thing. They're different names for different things. I tried to stay as true as I could, so I used Ruben Cobos' dictionary of Southwestern Spanish, and when I went into Spanish I never assumed the word I would use would be the word a nuevomexicano would use.

I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.

There is a whole host of people that have got an accent like mine, whether they're from Merseyside or Wales or the North West.

We don't tell Canadian stories enough.

There are more than thousand mother tongues spoken in our country. This is not just a number but a reason to be proud of.

The core of who I am is Canadian.

I'm always very proud when people ask me about being a Canadian.

I used to have a little Geordie accent when I was younger; they called me Little Geordie Fran.

I'm a very cultural person, and Canada is a very cultural place.

We don't have 'posh' in Canada. It's just not a thing that exists.

My parents and I - I'm an only child - are not particularly religious, but I was christened and raised in that vague and characteristically Canadian form of Protestantism known as the United Church.

Americans like to add the word 'super' when they're describing things.

Everybody knows I'm Canadian, and I'm proud of that. I'll never deny that fact that I'm Canadian.

Where I come from, everyone talks like me. It's working-class Edinburgh.

I was born in Canada, but both my parents are Syrian - they moved to Canada in the '70s, and I was born in a 100-percent-Arab house.

'Uff da,' for the unenlightened, is Norwegian for 'oy vey' and is a common expression in Minnesotese.

I'm proud to be Canadian. But I identify as being a British mum.

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].

Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is not shaken, at some time in the year, by "old, unhappy, far-off things / And battles long ago", like Wordsworth's solitary reaper. We are a nation of immigrants, and not happy in our minds.