Lunenburg English is a dialect of English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, spoken in the towns of Lunenburg and Bridgewater

Bridgewater, Nova Scotia

Bridgewater is a town in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the navigable limit of the LaHave River. It is the largest town in the South Shore region. While the majority of the South Shore's economy is based upon the tourist trade, Bridgewater is more a commercial and industrial centre and...

 in the province of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the most populous province in Atlantic Canada. The name of the province is Latin for "New Scotland," but "Nova Scotia" is the recognized, English-language name of the province. The provincial capital is Halifax. Nova Scotia is the...

. It is sometimes called the "Bridgewater Accent" by locals and those in the surrounding areas of Nova Scotia.

The accent can be linked to the ethnicity of the area's citizens, the majority of whom consist of people of German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Swiss

Switzerland

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, French

France

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 (from the Montbeliard

Montbéliard

Montbéliard is a city in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France. It is one of the two subprefectures of the department.-History:...

 region) and British

Great Britain

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 origins, descendants of late 18th century Protestant settlers. These immigrants have greatly affected the English that is heard in the area.

This part of Canada

Canada

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 is said to have the only non-rhotic

Rhotic

In linguistics, rhotic can refer to:* Rhotic consonant, such as the sound in red* R-colored vowel, such as the sound in Midwestern American English pronunciation of fur and before a consonant as in hard....

 accent in the whole country.

Examples:

• farm is "fahm" /fam/
• cord is "caud" /kɑd/ (like cod as in fish)
• world is "weld" /wɜld/
• Three Fathom Harbour
  Three Fathom Harbour
  Three Fathom Harbour is a fishing community on the Eastern Shore of the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the shore of Atlantic Ocean off Route 207 on Three Fathom Harbour Road . The harbour has its own authority .-Communications:...
  
   is "Three Fathah Habbah"
• water is "waudder" or "wauda"

German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 words are also prevalent but are losing ground due to a lack in Canadian media, and rhoticity seems to be gaining ground in the some of the youth population while non-rhotic speech is spoken by the aged.