Dafid Duck
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sarcasm - another reason for misinformation
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sarcasm - another reason for misinformation
seahawk7
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I thought so! Was not sure thats why I had to ask.
Disnee4Me
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A cast member who was wiping down tables in the food court at ASMovies in 2001 was telling us they were celebrating Mickey Mouse's 100th birthday (instead of Walt's). I probably should have corrected her, but my DH tells me I gotta stop correcting people .... I can't help it ... I'm ALWAYS right!!
graphite1326
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You know I was thinking the same thing.
graphite1326
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no we do not say "a boot" when we pronounce about
Been to Canada many times, that's exactly how you say it. Ab-owt is the correct pronunciation. Don't mess with me I"m and American.
graphite1326
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Yes you can it's easy, just get on the monorail at MK and go to EPCOT. Then catch a bus from there to Pop Century. When You get off go to the line that goes to AK.
graphite1326
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me too
Goofyernmost
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It's tough always beingA cast member who was wiping down tables in the food court at ASMovies in 2001 was telling us they were celebrating Mickey Mouse's 100th birthday (instead of Walt's). I probably should have corrected her, but my DH tells me I gotta stop correcting people .... I can't help it ... I'm ALWAYS right!!
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EricJ
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And that you still act like total irritants about nagging US and the UK over who kicked who's pants in the War of 1812. (Oh, wait, that's correct.
)And that it's a cold land of perpetual ice and snow, just ask Martin Short!
(Apparently, it's still an ongoing process...)
I_heart_Tigger
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I live here and that's not how we say it. That's how Americans bastardize using comically inaccurate accents on shows such as South Park. I have been to every single province and territory and not once have I ever heard it pronounced as "a boot". "A-bowt" is the American pronounciation of it "a-boat" is the Canadian pronounciation of it. We pronounce it differently not incorrectly. Oh and don't mess with me I'm a Canadian.
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I_heart_Tigger
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And that it's a cold land of perpetual ice and snow, just ask Martin Short!
the funny thing is that when I was there in November 2013 and January 2014 it was always 20 degrees warmer in Nova Scotia than it was in Florida. I have to start traveling in the summer or packing more layers
Goofyernmost
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I'm pretty sure that someone else changed my post just before I posted it. I wouldn't make a mistake like that, it would be way to embarrassing.
Runmyhorse
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Oh ok. I thought you was talking about the orginal poster. lol.
Breakinghbts
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I know its off topic. But I thought I'd share this tiny 'a-boot' story. I consider myself a well educated, and not so ignorant American. So, of course, the A-Boot thing was a joke. UNTIL I went to Vegas a few years ago, and met a wonderful canadian couple, from somewhere in central canada, possibly edmonton? Can't quite remember.
Well, let me tell you, the husband, said a-boot. Over, and over, to the point, where by the end of the night I could not stop laughing. I kept saying "I didnt think you guys actually talked that way". It was hilarious. I didn't mean to offend, and I'm sure alcohol has something to do with my reaction.
Maybe, most canadians don't talk that way. But I met some who did. So its not a lie, SOME canadians do say a-boot.
I_heart_Tigger
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Ive heard many Americans claim they've heard it that way. I chalk it up to not knowing how we pronounce the words boot and boat either. The only accent I've heard even coming close to saying a-boot is Scottish and even that isn't quite how they say it. When we say it, it's a shorter sound closer to saying boat than anything else but Americans pronounce boot and boat differently than we do as well so it's hard to explain that when they are doing a Canadian accents that they are way off. I find people from out west say it with a bit longer vowel sound I am from the east so it's a bit shorter and almost a u sound but not quite.
Here's an article on the aboot myth. Just a note that I am from Nova Scotia where they indicate many people think it would be pronounced that way but like the author, in all my travels I have never once heard a Canadian in real life or a recording say aboot unless they were "winding up" some Americans who didn't know any better.
http://dialectblog.com/2011/03/20/canadian-raising-nobody-says-aboot/
Edit to add a snippet that explains the perception in what you are hearing and why it is different than what I am hearing. This explains it better than I could, "To American ears, the Canadian pronunciation of about often sounds like aboot, but this is only an illusion. Because the more familiar pronunciation of /aw/ is articulated with the tongue in alow position, and because it raises to a mid position in Canadian English when the vowel precedes the voiceless obstruents listed above, speakers of other varieties of English will immediately detect the vowel raising, but will sometimes think that the vowel has raised farther than it actually does, all the way to /u/, which is a high vowel--hence the mishearing (and not-quite-right imitation) of this pronunciation as aboot."
@graphite1326 this may also help explain why we both pronounce and hear the pronounciation differently.
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Breakinghbts
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Going to read that article...some interesting info there in your post. Funny how perception changes things.
I_heart_Tigger
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My sister is a speech pathologist and I spent years traveling on my own. When I returned home from a while in the Mediterranean not only had my accent changed but how I heard her accent had changed as well. She went deep into the phonetics but most of it when over my head. It's interesting stuff.
