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Another one is "aboot" for about - I totally say this all the time! We all say it I find
You may, but I don't. It's Americans who hear "aboot." Many Canadians (but not all) will admit that they pronounce "about" differently from many Americans (but not all); however, I've never heard a Canadian willing to admit that they say "aboot." Since you admit that you say "aboot," you must not be Canadian.
So, logic tells me that you are not Canadian. Magnatomicflux may be correct when he suggests that you are our resident "Canadian accent" troll.
Now, what role does TwinbrookNine play in this? He's never posted in the Canada forum before; but a check of his posting history indicates that when he does post, it's in complete sentences, starting with capital letters and ending in periods, unlike his tonight about "doe-lar" and such. That post, in this thread, just doesn't match with his posting history, in other words. He does take months-long hiatuses from the boards; and the most recent coincided with the rise of "Canadian accent" posts on the boards.
Not going beyond that, but I will say, hmm. As Led Zeppelin sang, "Ooh, and it makes me wonder." It makes me wonder indeed.
One thing I've noticed is that British Columbians often pronounce the word "right" like "reet" or "rate" (maybe it's the Scottish/North England influence?). Also, Vancouver is called "Vangcouver", which is kinda funny since it sounds sort of Chinese.
Do you think the BC accent is different from the Ontario accent at all, or pretty much the same?
I'm not Canadian nor a linguist but they pronounce words like "right" sounding to US ears like "rate" or "reet" because of Canadian raising. They certainly say "alright" different from Americans and that was one of the words that stood out to me as sounding different. Many Americans say it almost like "aah-right" with the 'l' almost not even pronounced. Canadians to my ears say it like "ahl-rate" or at least the "r" & ending "t" sounded harder.
I may be wrong but I doubt that there is much variation in their accent across the country unlike the US or the UK where the accents can change in a few hours.
I'm not Canadian nor a linguist but they pronounce words like "right" sounding to US ears like "rate" or "reet" because of Canadian raising. They certainly say "alright" different from Americans and that was one of the words that stood out to me as sounding different. Many Americans say it almost like "aah-right" with the 'l' almost not even pronounced. Canadians to my ears say it like "ahl-rate" or at least the "r" & ending "t" sounded harder.
I may be wrong but I doubt that there is much variation in their accent across the country unlike the US or the UK where the accents can change in a few hours.
Yeah you ever hear "aight" a lot in the US, though that's kind of slangy. I've never heard that in Canada, if anyone does say it like that they're probably just hip hop wannabes haha.
Canadians definitely say some variant of "aboot". Every Canadian I've ever met says this yet claims they don't and it's only the newfies blah blah blah.
And every first time poster without a life jumps on here to resurrect this tired silly, innocuous, infantile, facile, meme aboot Canadians and their inflection in a long dead (2009..really?) and buried thread, after wasting a bit of time cruising with the search engine to find anything they think would suffice for fishing while in a slowly moving boat..
Gads; life is passing you by child. It's a beautiful day , get outside and play with your friends, oh.......well, then perhaps put some effort into making some......?
Why do Canadians get so upset when you mention their accents? I have never seem a people with so much shame over how they speak. Canadians absolutely DO say aboot, why deny it??
You watch too much South Park! Nobody says aboot, it's more like aboat.
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Quirks of the BC accent
