From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!ian Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: About, aboot Article-I.D.: utcsstat.247 Posted: Wed Jul 14 12:38:47 1982 Received: Wed Jul 14 14:29:44 1982 Re: utah-gr!thomas and aboot and about It's often (offen??) said that you can tell a Canajen from an Amurican by their pronunciation of this one word. To a Canuck, the Yank appears to be saying abowwt, while his own pronunciation appears `normal'. To the Amurican, the Canuck appears to be saying `aboot', while of course his own pronunciation is correct. Both are saying `about', merely with differing degrees of dipthongization. Some of my California friends kids me aboot this too. Ian Darwin U of Toronto Computing Services