[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

What I heard was not “aboot”. I heard, “aboat”. ;-)

[BenLurkin]

Compared to a 1986 version, the “Canada” is now pronounced farther back in the mouth, like “Cahnadah.”

Oh joy, Canadians are becoming even more pretentious.

[wally_bert]

We gots ways of makin you say the letter”O”.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

The vowel shift sounds a lot more like a bowel shift to me.

[SierraWasp]

Never git caught in the flow of a violent “vowel movement!” (especially coming from Lefty Liberals and most of all from Media Mavens)

[Dr. Sivana]

My Canadian wife dropped the “aboot” long ago. She still says “sore-y”, and has no intention of dropping it. I was born and raised in south central Connecticut, where mostly those of Italian heritage and sometimes Jews have the NY accent, but no one else. Only those who moved from Massachusetts sport the Boston accent.

She does tease me as I say “cran” and she says “cray-ahn”. I say “droor” and she says “draw-er”. I tease her for saying “ant” instead of “ahnt” for “aunt”.

Lanuguage is fun.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Resistance is Futile. You WILL be assimilated.

[Rodamala]

I was listening to a Canadian morning show broadcast a couple years ago and the hosts were talking about how the youth are changing the language in Canada.

The stereotypical question tag "eh?" is being supplanted by the quasi-High Rising Terminal "right?", because Canadian kids associate saying "eh?" with being unsophisticated.

The truth of the matter is the word "eh" is merely looking for agreement or, mostly (I believe) validation for the speaker by turning a declarative statement into an interrogative one...

Right?

How polite and inclusive of me, isn't it?

I truly love how Canadians, Yoopers and Minnesotans speak. Beats the hell of my New Joisey - Eastern PA hybrid accent... that I can't escape... though my time in Illinois did bring some new inflections to my speech... being in western PA, not so much.

I hate how they speak out here... they leave words out of sentences i.e. "My watch stopped working and needs fixed" as opposed to the NORMAL way to say it, "My watch has stopped working and it needs to be fixed". It's subtle, but grates on my BIG TIME.

Don't even get me started with those Pittsburghers with their "YOONZ".

Fuhgeddaboutit! [eh?]

[Fiji Hill]

Out here in Southern California, most of us pronounce “marry,” “merry” and “Mary” exactly the same, and the same goes for “cot” and “caught.” “Any” rhymes with “tinny,” “end” rhymes with “Sindh,” and “anti-” as in “anti-Bolshevik” is pronounced “ant eye.”

[struggle]

[Tennessee Nana]

We’re sah-ry, eh ???

[foreverfree]

Slightly OT: Any of my fellow Americans alarmed at an increasing (to me) number of publications using "US" (I think the Brits use that) instead of "U.S."?

ff

[dfwgator]

“Could you tell us again what your argument is ‘about’?”

(LANGUAGE)

From the South Park Movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WcOcgc3WN4&spfreload=10