What's A Newfoundland Accent Worth?

Lila MacLellan, The Atlantic
Sat, 03/28/2015 - 5:00am

Contestants in the Miss Universe 2006 pageant appear onstage in the costume exhibition segment. ( Sam Mircovich/Reuters ) Last year a Canadian public radio show called This is That reported on a somewhat ridiculous-seeming plan, cooked up in the northern Alberta town of High Prairie: To attract more tourists, the town council had, according to the program, hired a linguist from Texas to invent a local accent.

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