>>>>Yeah, I guess I missed the first 3 definitions in the UD link. And my country doesn't have any French speakers.
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>>>Quebec seceded or... what they speak isn't really french?
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>>I was being facetious.
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>>That said, a lot of French people would say the language spoken in Quebec/Maritimes isn't French. A friend was living in Aix-en-Provence a while back. She was watching TV, and Rene Levesque (then-Quebec premier) was being interviewed, nominally in French. The show ran French subtitles while he was speaking ;)
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>My wife (and sometimes I) wish that the BBC shows would have sub-titles (and I wouldn't be surprised if many in the UK felt the same way)

We often find that for the first few minutes of a British or Australian show, we have to work pretty hard and then our ear adjusts. (Full disclosure: I think the only Australian show I've watched is "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries"; highly recommended, both for the stories and the costumes, which are just stunning, and I say that was someone who cares nothing about fashion.)

Tamar