"Coming with?", Canadian/American accents

saintbacchus saintbacchus at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 24 08:34:51 UTC 2002


--- "alyeskakc" <alyeskakc at n...> wrote:

> Here in the States we tend to say "a-bow-t"(like take a bow) and 
> "saw-ry", whereas the Candians I've run across tend to say "a-boot" 
> and "sow-ry". I've also noticed it during interviews with some 
> Canadian actors as well. Just my observation.

Maybe instead of Canada being another American state, Wisconsin is a 
lost province. Right around Beaver Dam (about halfway north), people 
start saying "sow-ry" and "eh." We also say "come with," even in 
southern Wisconsin. I had no idea that was a regional phrase!

We don't say "a-boot" or "a-gain" (as opposed to "a-gin"), though. 
Those seem to be exclusively Canadian pronunciations.





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