Re: CHAT: "have a nice day"

"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
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> John Cowan wrote:
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> > 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