>>>>>>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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>>>That is understandable. I have no problems with "Canadian" English, but often turn on subtitles for "British" English.
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>>I think what you mean is you speak and understand Mirkin, but have some trouble with (actual, Queen's) English :)
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>>I was going to phonetically spell it "Merkin", but it turns out that means something entirely different ;)
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>No, Mirkin is a dialect pretty much confined to Texas. I believe the spelling of that dialect is closer to Murakin. According to my wife Angela, who was born and raised in Georgia, I speak Yankee, although I am sure our New England members would beg to differ.

I haven't spent any time in Texas but I was in Oklahoma for a few days. The cashiers say "Foyn kew" when you're leaving the Piggly Wiggly :)