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<blockquote data-quote="Virginia Frog" data-source="post: 3171000" data-attributes="member: 4959"><p>British actors are cheaper! That's why you see so many Brits in "our" productions.</p><p></p><p>Lower cost is also why, for the past 25 years or so, many shows/films are produced in Canada (as a stand-in for the USA.) The government then requires the production companies to hire a number of Canadians who have what is called a "Jamestown" accent - which is clearly different from average US English-speak. ("Jamestown" accents are from the tidewater regions of states below Delaware: Maryland, Virginia, N & SC and Georgia - pre-TV/WW2 there was great isolation in these areas. Their accents extended from the original English settlements - with Jamestown being the first.) Since Canada was an English colony until the 1860s and the large isolation of Canadian towns and cities, a similar sounding brand of English was spoken widely there - and is alive today!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virginia Frog, post: 3171000, member: 4959"] British actors are cheaper! That's why you see so many Brits in "our" productions. Lower cost is also why, for the past 25 years or so, many shows/films are produced in Canada (as a stand-in for the USA.) The government then requires the production companies to hire a number of Canadians who have what is called a "Jamestown" accent - which is clearly different from average US English-speak. ("Jamestown" accents are from the tidewater regions of states below Delaware: Maryland, Virginia, N & SC and Georgia - pre-TV/WW2 there was great isolation in these areas. Their accents extended from the original English settlements - with Jamestown being the first.) Since Canada was an English colony until the 1860s and the large isolation of Canadian towns and cities, a similar sounding brand of English was spoken widely there - and is alive today! [/QUOTE]
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