Canadians say ABOAT NOT ABOOT for about

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Canadians say ABOAT NOT ABOOT (rough cut) Aboat the popular misconception about how Canadians pronounce the about sound. Here are some blanket replies to previous comments… • Here are videos from the only 3 Western Canadians I googled... • Here’s BC Premier Christy Campbell, in her first sentence she says aboat • Premier Christy Clark speaks out agai... • Here is the Premier of Manitoba saying aboat around the 04 second mark. • Brian Pallister (PC) -- Health Care • Actually somebody else on here claimed that Bret Hart, from Calgary, said aboot. I googled and found this video of him. • Bret Hart Shoot Interview WWE Hall of... At the 2 minute mark you can hear him say aboat twice. • For the rest of Canada just watch Canadian news. You will hear your fair share of abouts and aboats, but no aboots! • Here is the Canadian Raising entry on Wikipedia that I mentioned, • “Americans popularly mock the raised Canadian pronunciation of about [əˈbɐʊt~əˈbəʊt], jokingly pronouncing it as a boot, though American a boat [əˈboʊt] is actually closer phonetically.” • Also this site has links to Canadians saying about http://dialectblog.com/2011/03/20/can... Only the Rob Ford link works, but is an example of someone from Toronto saying aboat.

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