The Tongue Play: An Auto-Ethnography

Abstract

When I made the decision to marry a Canadian and move to Toronto, the thought that I would be working with an accent did cross my mind. “It is a bilingual country and also a country of immigrants. Surely they are used to it,” was my reasoning. My future husband, a veteran of the TV industry, assured me that it would “be fine.” This was wishful thinking on both of our parts. I didn’t realize how naïve I was to think that my career depended only on Canadians being used to immigrants. I didn’t factor in that I was not used to being one!