On 14-May-07, at 1:58 PM, Randolph Peters wrote:
Related aside: It took me a year to even hear how we English speaking Canadians say "aboot" instead of "about". After that I had to practice the mid-West diphthong (adults only) for a few more months before the teasing went away. The internal scars were a different matter...
You COULD have done what I did when I was at Eastman. Any time anyone teased me aboot my Canadian accent, I responded, "Take off and go pee up a rope, ya buncha hosers. I'll pernounce any bluidy way I like, eh?" This coming from people who said "Raaa-chtuh" for Rochester and "Fie dallahs" for "five dollars", so I felt perfectly justified. Then I threw in a "Roight some JAY-sus noice, dere bye!" and a "Whale oil beef irked" (say it fast!) just for good measure. They didn't know I was mixing Maritimes and Ottawa Valley with Prairie accents just to mess with them. Hey, I can speak a dialect as incomprehensible as any rural Virginian or Georgian, in my own way.
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