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From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen)
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Subject: Re: Re: Americanisms and Canadianisms
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Date: Fri, 27-Dec-85 15:06:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 27 15:06:15 1985
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Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ  85282
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i've gotten a kick out of this discussion.  while a Canadian by birth,
i've spent most years elsewhere.  so, i suspect what i speak is a mixture
of many places, and am, in turn, woefully ignorant of many Canadianisms.
	which leads me to suggest that many "Americanisms" or "Canadianisms"
which have already or may yet pop up are often really regionalisms.  whatever,
these are equally or even more interesting.
	now, i have a question about accents.  are there really any
Canadians that pronounce "about" as "a-boot"?  frequently, people will identify
me as Canadian because i just said "a-boot".  i ask them to listen again,
carefully, and then they notice that it's not "aboot", but a clipped-vowel-sound
"a-bowht" (a good sound rep??) rather than the drawn out vowel sound that
i hear Americans use.
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