uncle arnie wrote:

North America was partitioned in 1776, with various 19th century updates as
the settlement moved west. We share much. Both nice and nasty people.
The accents are different, but the weirdest thing has to be that some
Newfoundlanders sound like people from the US south.


They are most likely Canadians from way back. The English did much
ethnic cleansing and many French were forcibly moved out. many of them
wound up in the Southern States. The term Cajun comes from the word
Acadia, which was renamed by the Anglos.

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The area comprising today's New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, was once
known as "ACADIA". The first Frenchmen arrived at Port Royal
(present-day Annapolis Royal), in 1605. Settlement continued until the
early 1700's when, in 1713, ACADIA was given to the British.

http://www.acadian.org/definitions.html

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Terry Pratchett