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Old Posted Jan 25, 2014, 2:50 PM
Mrs Sauga Mrs Sauga is offline
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Originally Posted by kool maudit View Post
it's all over the GTA, but it's maybe more subtle there. i can tell a torontonian from an american here using that exact metric. again, "aboot" isn't quite right, but there's a definite quality to that vowel sound that americans don't have. the american "about" is flatter and broader in nearly every regional case.
I'm gonna try to listening to a Canadian news show and then CNN and see if I can spot it.
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