LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 04.MAY.2000 (02) [E]

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From: $ Elsie Zinsser [ezinsser at simpross.co.za]
Subject: LL-L: "Language varieties" LOWLANDS-L, 01.MAY.2000 (01) [E]

Hi, all!

Thomas Mc Rae [t.mcrae at uq.net.au] wrote:
[snip] Re the pronounciation (sic)  "Aboot" i must say I never heard any
Canadian say
this during my visit, only time I've heard it was in the movie "South
Park'.

I have no knowledge of Canadian speech varieties or accents but I have
to agree that I have
heard 'about' pronounced as "abowt" (Ed Alexander's) or  "aboat" (John
Feather's) and
directly from a Canadian horse's mouth, so to speak.

Regards!

Elsie Zinsser

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