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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Like why should you and I have the same basic accent? Or meara? Aren't we from 3 different places?
Hey, I don't disagree with you there. Where I come from, practically every town has a different accent. I really think only a tiny percentage of Canadians sound like they say aboot.
I wish I could find where I read about this, but apparently there's a pocket of people (must be tiny tiny people) in North Carolina who have the same accent as Shakespeare. The person who figured this out got a troupe of actors to do a couple of Shakespeare's plays in that accent, and everything rhymed! The rhythm was effortlessly right! It sounded odd, but it was wonderful.
I've found that the further west you go in Ontario, the more cliched the accents get. St Joseph Island is a veritable hotbed of "aboot."
There was a lot of "aboot" in upstate New York, too.
Newfoundland accents (where I was born): [link]
Cape Breton accent (where I grew up): [link]
I don't really sound like either of those.
I really think only a tiny percentage of Canadians sound like they say aboot.
Isn't the difference that Canadians (mostly) say "aboat" (vowel pronounced like "oh") and Americans say "abowt" (vowel pronounced like "ow")?
I agree with Ouise.
Isn't the difference that Canadians (mostly) say "aboat" (vowel pronounced like "oh") and Americans say "abowt" (vowel pronounced like "ow")?
Or even in between those two sounds, for some Canadians I've known.
In *ewwww* news, the neighbor's dog just peed on my foot. He's an adorable Shiba Inu, but he slips his collar all the time and takes off. And O's brother came to get her at the bus stop, with the dog, by himself. He's autistic, and the collar was nearly off, so I leaned down to put it back. I don't know if I scared him, but the next thing I knew my foot was wet.
At least I was wearing flip-flops, making cleanup easier?
I get calls from Canadians, and the "aboat" does appear. It's cute.
re: Ellen--Architectural Digest did a spread on her and Portia's house, and their closet is hysterical. There's a wall of shelves for shoes. On Portia's side there's pumps and stilettos and sandals and everything. On Ellen's--her usual brand of tennis shoe in every color imaginable. The two of them are just adorable.