Seriously tho, probably boring but i have known a canadian quite well and he has Scottish ancestry and informs me that Scots are quite prominent in Canadia, if u guys say aboot and ey, then thats where it comes from, because the scots do, and they're daft as brush as well-) haha
Seriously tho, probably boring but i have known a canadian quite well and he has Scottish ancestry and informs me that Scots are quite prominent in Canadia, if u guys say aboot and ey, then thats where it comes from, because the scots do, and they're daft as brush as well-) haha
i said this aboot 20 posts ago... in Scotland we say aboot when talking in slang... and Nova Scotia is called that for a good reason!!!!
we are not daft anyway... the japanese... wow!!!! far out
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
i said this aboot 20 posts ago... in Scotland we say aboot when talking in slang... and Nova Scotia is called that for a good reason!!!!
we are not daft anyway... the japanese... wow!!!! far out
Ahhh but confusious say....er...probably " im not japanese fuck face im chinese"....so good one anyway haha we'll pick on the japanese, cos ur probably quite big with ginger hair and a skirt-) haha
Ahhh but confusious say....er...probably " im not japanese fuck face im chinese"....so good one anyway haha we'll pick on the japanese, cos ur probably quite big with ginger hair and a skirt-) haha
and you're probably a fat blob of flesh with milkshake for blood... aren't stereotypes great!!!
oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
Some Americans may have seen an episode of This hour has 22 minutes on last year's canadian P.J tour and they think this how English-Canadians are prononcing,coast to coast.
She wears my love like a see-through dress
Her lips say one thing,her movements something else.
This thread is blowing my mind. I have lived in vancouver 25 years and have never heard anyone say "a-boot". We pronounce it "a-bowt". Maybe it is a regional thing cause it is parodied all of the time.
Yes you do say it, I guarantee, if you are from Vancouver
the sound 'ou' isn't a single vowel, its a dipthong, which is two vowels.
saying 'eh'(as in bet) and then 'ee' fast together sounds like 'ay' for example.
when you say 'ay' you are really saying 'eh'-'ee' really fast.
When talking about 'about'
you say a-ba-oot
americans say a-ba-oat
try saying 'a'-'oo' a bunch fast, then saying 'a'-'oh' a bunch fast. You will see pretty soon how they hear us saying it.
they hear the 'a'-'oo'... but since we both start the dipthong with 'a', its the 'oo' that stands out for them. Hence they bug us about the 'oo'...
"Things will just get better and better even though it
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
Canada is a HUGE country, so its not going to be the same everywhere, just like in the US southern, northeastern, midwestern and west coast all have different accents. Just because you're Canadian and you've never heard someone say "aboot" doesn't mean it isn't so in different parts. Parts of Canada do speak that way, but it gets stereotyped to the whole country. I definately heard that accent when I went to Niagra Falls and even a friend I have from northern Minnesota sort of talks like that. We give him shit for it.
But hey, don't be offended.. I'm from ChicAgo, so I'm lovin' da way da Bears have been trowing da ball lately. Think I'll trow anoder Polish sassage on da grill!
Canada is a HUGE country, so its not going to be the same everywhere, just like in the US southern, northeastern, midwestern and west coast all have different accents. Just because you're Canadian and you've never heard someone say "aboot" doesn't mean it isn't so in different parts. Parts of Canada do speak that way, but it gets stereotyped to the whole country. I definately heard that accent when I went to Niagra Falls and even a friend I have from northern Minnesota sort of talks like that.
But hey, don't be offended.. I'm from ChicAgo, so I'm lovin' da way da Bears have been trowing da ball lately.
Agreed...I would think it would be like thinking all Americans say y'all
(No offense to those who say y'all!)
Canada is a HUGE country, so its not going to be the same everywhere, just like in the US southern, northeastern, midwestern and west coast all have different accents. Just because you're Canadian and you've never heard someone say "aboot" doesn't mean it isn't so in different parts. Parts of Canada do speak that way, but it gets stereotyped to the whole country. I definately heard that accent when I went to Niagra Falls and even a friend I have from northern Minnesota sort of talks like that. We give him shit for it.
But hey, don't be offended.. I'm from ChicAgo, so I'm lovin' da way da Bears have been trowing da ball lately. Think I'll trow anoder Polish sassage on da grill!
Canada doesn't have nearly the diversity that the USA does in that regard. Ontario to BC is all pretty much the same.
In Canada, I can recognise if you are from : Newfoundland, Quebec, or the rest
In the US, I can distinguish:
Southern(Atlanta), Southern(Carolina), Maine, Midwest(Chicago), Miinesota, Texas, Louisiana, and then I lump the rest into 'can't tell', which for me usually means west coast, and is not far off from canadian
Canada doesn't have nearly the diversity that the USA does in that regard. Ontario to BC is all pretty much the same.
In Canada, I can recognise if you are from : Newfoundland, Quebec, or the rest
In the US, I can distinguish:
Southern(Atlanta), Southern(Carolina), Maine, Midwest(Chicago), Miinesota, Texas, Louisiana, and then I lump the rest into 'can't tell', which for me usually means west coast, and is not far off from canadian
I have relatives from the west coast. They have that surfer/ valley girl accent.. for instance, when the say "on" is sounds like "awn".. My dad's name is Don, but we got a kick out of my cousins calling him Dawn. lol... of coarse, they tell me we talk out of our noses...
My point is, nobody thinks or realizes they have an accent, because to them it seems normal.
I have relatives from the west coast. They have that surfer/ valley girl accent.. for instance, when the say "on" is sounds like "awn".. My dad's name is Don, but we got a kick out of my cousins calling him Dawn. lol... of coarse, they tell me we talk out of our noses...
My point is, nobody thinks or realizes they have an accent, because to them it seems normal.
I was born and raised in the Northeast US -- NJ, to be precise. Then, I lived in the South for awhile and acquired the contraction "y'all," which I've never given up.
Y'all -- Best. Contraction. Ever.
"Things will just get better and better even though it
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
I live in Michigan and have been accused of sounding 'Canadian' when I visit other states, especially when I lived out East for 5 years.
The 'o' affiction in some words like 'boat' or 'about' or just saying 'eh' a lot prompted people to ask where the hell I was from. When I told them Detroit, I sensed they were let down a bit. But then they realized that you can spit to Ontario from Detroit, hence my "Canadian" accent and all was well in their world.
I don't know your speech pattern Miss Canadia, but, I detect it in some Canucks when I hang out in Canada. The comedians who play up 'aboot' are just doing it for laughs and it is a tad exaggerated in most circumstances, but to the rest of the folks, you people do prounce words with an 'o' differently than Americans and that's nice.
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First PJ Show: March 20, 1994 | Ann Arbor | Crisler Arena
anytime i have travelled i have been called "oot" on my "oots" and "aboots"
i never really thought it was that evident because we hear it everyday. i was talking to my friend in san antonio recently and she can really notice it. when i was in ireland they didn't know where the hell i was from. when i was in sweden they laughed at me...mostly because the south park movie had just come "oot".
that was the most asked question i got when travelling..."were you offended by the movie south park?" ... of course not! it was hilarious!
also, not many nova scotians will say "where is it to?" but you do hear it sometimes...it's made its way from NFLD, eh?
oh, and people from central canada can't say words like broom and roommate...it's always "bruhm" and "ruhmmate"
one more...when i was living in vancouver and someone would ask me if they could have something...a beer from the fridge, let's say, to stay stereotypically canadian...i would say "fill yer boots" - meaning "go ahead"...of course they had no idea what i meant. i thought it was a common expression.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahah i fucking love that
This is probably an even less insightful post, i know fuck all aboot canadians either-)
but wot the fuck thats some funny shit hahahaha
vision oOnly Greyyy
vision oOnly Greyyy
i said this aboot 20 posts ago... in Scotland we say aboot when talking in slang... and Nova Scotia is called that for a good reason!!!!
we are not daft anyway... the japanese... wow!!!! far out
Ahhh but confusious say....er...probably " im not japanese fuck face im chinese"....so good one anyway haha we'll pick on the japanese, cos ur probably quite big with ginger hair and a skirt-) haha
vision oOnly Greyyy
and you're probably a fat blob of flesh with milkshake for blood... aren't stereotypes great!!!
But in my experiences, it is something that most canadians say, although not to the extreme it is sometimes protrayed....
and most of them dont even know it.
and for the record, those in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Wisconsin also say it like that.
They are when u get the right nationality -) catch a haggis for breakfast?? haha
vision oOnly Greyyy
Her lips say one thing,her movements something else.
Yes you do say it, I guarantee, if you are from Vancouver
the sound 'ou' isn't a single vowel, its a dipthong, which is two vowels.
saying 'eh'(as in bet) and then 'ee' fast together sounds like 'ay' for example.
when you say 'ay' you are really saying 'eh'-'ee' really fast.
When talking about 'about'
you say a-ba-oot
americans say a-ba-oat
try saying 'a'-'oo' a bunch fast, then saying 'a'-'oh' a bunch fast. You will see pretty soon how they hear us saying it.
they hear the 'a'-'oo'... but since we both start the dipthong with 'a', its the 'oo' that stands out for them. Hence they bug us about the 'oo'...
no one listsened to me the first time.... sigh
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
-- EV, Live at the Showbox
But hey, don't be offended.. I'm from ChicAgo, so I'm lovin' da way da Bears have been trowing da ball lately. Think I'll trow anoder Polish sassage on da grill!
Agreed...I would think it would be like thinking all Americans say y'all
(No offense to those who say y'all!)
Peace
Canada doesn't have nearly the diversity that the USA does in that regard. Ontario to BC is all pretty much the same.
In Canada, I can recognise if you are from : Newfoundland, Quebec, or the rest
In the US, I can distinguish:
Southern(Atlanta), Southern(Carolina), Maine, Midwest(Chicago), Miinesota, Texas, Louisiana, and then I lump the rest into 'can't tell', which for me usually means west coast, and is not far off from canadian
My point is, nobody thinks or realizes they have an accent, because to them it seems normal.
Y'all -- Best. Contraction. Ever.
doesn't feel that way right now. That's the hopeful
idea . . . Hope didn't get much applause . . .
Hope! Hope is the underdog!"
-- EV, Live at the Showbox
The 'o' affiction in some words like 'boat' or 'about' or just saying 'eh' a lot prompted people to ask where the hell I was from. When I told them Detroit, I sensed they were let down a bit. But then they realized that you can spit to Ontario from Detroit, hence my "Canadian" accent and all was well in their world.
I don't know your speech pattern Miss Canadia, but, I detect it in some Canucks when I hang out in Canada. The comedians who play up 'aboot' are just doing it for laughs and it is a tad exaggerated in most circumstances, but to the rest of the folks, you people do prounce words with an 'o' differently than Americans and that's nice.
First PJ Show: March 20, 1994 | Ann Arbor | Crisler Arena
yes
i never really thought it was that evident because we hear it everyday. i was talking to my friend in san antonio recently and she can really notice it. when i was in ireland they didn't know where the hell i was from. when i was in sweden they laughed at me...mostly because the south park movie had just come "oot".
that was the most asked question i got when travelling..."were you offended by the movie south park?"
also, not many nova scotians will say "where is it to?" but you do hear it sometimes...it's made its way from NFLD, eh?
oh, and people from central canada can't say words like broom and roommate...it's always "bruhm" and "ruhmmate"
one more...when i was living in vancouver and someone would ask me if they could have something...a beer from the fridge, let's say, to stay stereotypically canadian...i would say "fill yer boots" - meaning "go ahead"...of course they had no idea what i meant. i thought it was a common expression.