Catherine McKay wrote: >Canadians don't say "about". The word simply doesn't >exist in Canada.
Only in its spoken form. Or as my Canadian friend Barry tells me, "Unlike you Americans we pronounce all the vowels." >And then there's Ahnold Schwartzenegger, who always >has a Scottish or English-sounding name. How >believable is that? I like the "McCain" tv show in The Simpsons, where McCain *always* has that Ahnult accent. Anyone recall that scene from The Magic Christian, where Jeremy Slate reads a commercial, and Sir Guy Grand (Peter Sellers) says, "Now do it with an American accent." Jeremy: "That *was* an American accent." Sir Guy: "Good lord! What on earth is going on over there?"? Gil
