Canajan, eh?

Randy Lee

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Hi, L M Ashton. It's nice to see a familiar face here. I just joined AW a few days ago.

You know me as Randy, but that name was taken when I signed up here.

Sorry for crashing your party, everyone. I'm not Canadian. But the Canadian border guards did let me into your country one time. Maybe you'll let me do the same for your community this one time.

I watched the fireworks in Edmonton on Canada Day 31 years ago. They were the best I'd ever seen. It was a little strange having to wait until 11 o'clock for the fireworks to start, though. Those are long days you got there northward.
 

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I knew you lived in Canada years ago, but I don't know if I ever knew that you lived in Edmonton. I thought of staying in Calgary on July 1, but they didn't have fireworks there, so that's how I ended up in Edmonton.
 

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Hey, does anyone know how Canada got it's name?

They put all the letters of the alphabet in a toque and started pulling them out one by one.












C, eh. N, eh. D, eh.

<<----

American's love that one.

That's a good one, eh?
 

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I say "eh?" Never "aboot." I don't even know why my American friends think we say "aboot."
 

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/rolls in

I say "eh" all the time, but more in the "so you wanna take the bus, eh?" way than "you're taking the bus, eh", if that makes sense... =u=

Yeah, the "a-boot" thing bugs me... some Canadians kind of say "a-boat" but I've NEVER heard anyone pronounce it "a-boot" aside from people who are mocking us... eAe
 

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Americans hear "aboot" because their hearing isn't attuned to the "ow" sound we Canadian actually make, so their brain translates it to the nearest sound in their range, which is "aboot".

<waves hello to her fellow Canucks>
 

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I always assumed the aboot came from the Newfoundlanders... (no offence to any here!)
 

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As an American who has now experienced the nuances of "both" languages, I can tell you with some authority that you're actually saying "abote" without realizing it.

Listen to an American say it, and it is most definitely ABOWT. And in the South, ABAY-OUT.

And there you have it.
 

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My liverpoolian friend would say it sounded like I was saying "aboat"
 

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
 

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"Aboot" is the Scottish version. In my now 6 years here in Newfoundland, I've never heard anybody ( apart from me) use it.
 

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I was in Zaire on my way to the border with Uganda when I was 18 in 1972.

There was this strip of no-man's-land about 2 kilometres wide between the border posts. it was hot dusty African savannah kind of terrain.

Met another backpacker doing the same thing. He spoke a few words and I said. "You're from Burnaby eh?"

He was.
 

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Can I still be a part of the love if I'm not living in Canada? I miss it! :cry: