PreTeena by Allison Barrows for September 22, 2011

We do?

Nor do we all say "ooht’ or "house’

eh?

Yaw’all think you got problems? Come ta Texas. I live here and I don’t understnad us half the time. (’Specially when wekeep electing Perry.)

Aboot? I don’t know anyone who says “aboot” sounds like Minnesota to me.

Of course, out here on the West Coast, we don’t have any sort of an accent. It’s all the rest of the country that talks funny. Just kidding! I do wonder, though, how the rest of the country hears us… Any chance of them putting up the missing Sunday strip?

I believe both pronunciations are considered correct. And where I grew up, both were used equally.

Sounds a lot like my family, my grandparents came from England by way of Canada Eh. When I was young some relatives from Canada (London On. area) came to visit. “The Canadians are coming Eh?” I said, and my mother replied that they don’t say that. And all through dinner I had a hard time not cracking up as just aboot every sentence they said ended in “Eh”.

the only time i’ve heard any canadian say “aboot” is when they’re asking for a boot to put on a foot. it’s only those in newfoundland who have that very distinctive accent now. also, just for the record, we don’t all say “eh” either.

I was at Niagra Falls and Overheard a resteraunt manager tell a new waitress, “Now we get a lot of Americans in here so remember to say ‘eh’ and ‘aboot’ a lot.” I’m not sure he was jokeing. Later I went to fuel up my vehicle and this nice lady with a lovely accent directed me to a “Gas Bar at the corner”.

Dear Canadians: yes, you do. We Minnesotans say it too.

Ever since I was a kid, I was specifically taught NOT to think of Canadians as having an accent. That was what (supposedly) separated them from the Brits and Australians: same language, NO accent. I’ve certainly never heard any of the stereotypical Canadisms on “Degrassi”!

@cdwardRain? Now you’re really speaking a foreign language

While this may be cliched, I certainly hear this pronunciation constantly throughout the hockey season.

ATTENTION: The missing 9/18 strip is finally up!

I say “aboot” sometimes…it goes on “afoot”.

At least we don’t carry guns everywhere we go, as ALL Americans do, Teena! (Isn’t stereotyping great!!)

As a Canadian of 69 years the only people I have ever heard say “aboot” in Canada are Amurrikins who can’t say about as in a-b-ow-t!

@Destiny23

You canucks should come up with some new put downs on the U.S. It’s been almost 20 years ago that I was working in a small U.S. airport when a Canuck plane flew in, and the couple out of it came into the terminal with their noses up in the air, and then launched into a 10 minute profanity laced diatribe on how Canadaland was so superior to the U.S. because they didn’t have guns everywhere like the U.S. did. Then went back to their plane and flew back across the border.