For the study, the researchers isolated the words, emoticons, and emojis used most disproportionately on Twitter by individuals from each country. The findings suggest national stereotypes are grounded - at least partially - in the words we choose.

"The most distinctive word choices of Americans and Canadians on Twitter paint a very accurate and familiar picture of the stereotypes we associate with people from these nations," Schmidtke said. However, there is not any hard evidence to support that an average American's and average Canadian's personality traits are different.

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The team argues that their results show an identity construction strategy in action: Canadians and Americans may create their national character stereotype through their language use.

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