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Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Monday, March 6, 2000, 22:50
"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > John Cowan wrote: > > > Robert Hailman wrote: > > > > > > "Thomas R. Wier" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > like "oot and aboot" alot. ;-) > > > > > > > > I can't say I know what you are talking aboot. > > > > Missed this before. It's Scottish people who say "oot and aboot" [u:t n= @bu:t]. > > Canadians notoriously say "oat and aboat", as in "oat and aboat in a boat". > > The /ow/ is very short. > > Huh? Every Canadian I've ever heard (quite a few) has always had a schwa > there for the initial vowel before the glide: [@w]. > > (I'm assuming you do not speak a dialect that has just that for /ow/ -- there are > some, as I'm sure you know) >
Almost very Canadian I've ever heard, and that's hundreds a day for, um, 15 years, says it the same as in General American Speech. In the maritimes, of course, there is a different pronounciation of most everything. -- Robert