The first time I saw the last sentence of your first paragraph it read: "There were a couple of times when I couldn't make out with my friends' girlfriends..."
I thought, "Geez, with friends like you, who needs enemies?" ;-) I think I'm getting tired. cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: Walt <[email protected]> Sent: September 18, 2012 9/18/12 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT: Humor For our Canadian Friends I went to college at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, which is only about 90 miles north of where I live, but populated with people mostly from Chicagoland and central Illinois. I didn't come back home to visit for several months at first, and when I did, I was astonished at how much my ear had grown attuned to the flat, Midwestern accent. There were even a couple of times when I couldn't make out what one of my friends' girlfriends was saying. My part of Kentucky has a very heavy Irish influence -- Buchanans , Dunns & Sullivans abound, and it's very apparent when you're not used to hearing it. I really was taken aback at first. -- Walt On 9/18/2012 5:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Yes, but to our ears you southerners say "a-bay-out". > > ;-) > > Of course we Canadians have lots of different local accents (the Newfoundland > accent probably being the best known - rumour has it that local Newfies can > actually tell what fishing village one comes from by their accent). > > That being said the central Canadian accent is so flat and "neutral" that > quite a few Canadians are newsreaders down south (as in the USA). Robert > Macneil (Macneil - Lehrer Report), Keith Morrison, Peter Jennings and John > Roberts (we knew him as JD Roberts) come to mind. Oh yeah, and the "Scud > Stud", what was his name, Arthur Kent? > > cheers, > frank > > > > "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- > Christopher Hitchens > > --- Original Message --- > > From: Walt <[email protected]> > Sent: September 18, 2012 9/18/12 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Humor For our Canadian Friends > > The thing is, it's always sound more like "a boat" to my ear. But, then, > I speak Kentuckese. > > On 9/18/2012 8:41 AM, David J Brooks wrote: >> Thats aboot it >> >> Dave >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> http://themetapicture.com/canadian-investigators/ >>> Dan Matyola >>> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
