How do you distinguish American accent from Canadian one?

[Ralf]

[IsadorCJ]

well~ yea I'm now in a canadian university~

some of our prof's who are from "old school" (around 45-year-old) used "a boat" quite often~ i mean, they pronounce it like that~

but for some other younger prof's(around 35-year-old), they just talk like the guys on TV show, and for sure the TV shows i'm talkin' about are all of Americans~ ....

that's what I have found so far~

quite interesting~

[prezbucky]

Has anyone mentioned the Californian A-to-ah change?

Had = Hahd
Bad = Bahd
Lad = Lahd

etc.