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To: LittleLinda
Canadian keyboard selected.

I bet you say 'flavour' and 'on line' too. See? That's what you get for not kicking the limeys out like we did. They made you talk funny.

You’re probably not as crusty as you pretend to be 😉


1,353 posted on 07/09/2021 10:20:51 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: bagster

Yes on flavour, but definitely no to ‘on line’ when I mean I’m ‘in line’ waiting for an empty bathroom stall at the arena between hockey periods. We spell funny, but we don’t talk funny ... except for that weird thing some Canadians do with ‘eh’ ... and substituting ‘aboat’ for ‘about’. My grandfather was a proper Englishman and always said “Linda, speak the Queen’s English!”. No ‘eh’s’ permitted, and proper pronunciation was strongly encouraged.


1,440 posted on 07/09/2021 2:56:11 PM PDT by LittleLinda
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To: bagster

Our cousins to the north also can’t pronounce “out”.
It nearly always comes out sounding like “oot”.


1,508 posted on 07/09/2021 6:00:59 PM PDT by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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