Do Canadians actually say "aboot"!? (With Two Canadians)
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About: Two Canadians talking about the Canadian raising, Canadian pronunciation, and whether or not Canadians actually say "aboot".
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It's more like "a'boat" than "aboot".
Depends where in the sentence they say it and when the emphasis is more on that word or part of the sentence
Ive just had to search this as I just watched a video where the girl kept saying a boat and took me back to southpark,its definitely a boat though
read my latest reply on these dbags.....your correct....
I believe the a-boat intonation comes from the maritimes. It's not commonly heard in western canada where are a lot of european immigrants; unless that person emigrated from the maritimes to the western prairies. Many teachers do come from the maritimes/nl/labrador and can impact how children speak on the prairies.
My accent is kinda funny, i was not born in a country that speaks english as the native language, but still, my accent is a mix of canadian english with american english, which is kinda funny. Sometimes i do really pronounce "about" as "aboot" and i have a strong tone in "i" words like "it" and "sit" can sound like "iith" and "siith" when i speak them in a normal chat.
It's aboot time more Canadians recognize their use of "aboot", acknowledge it and embrace it.
I say aboot-aboat
Canadians don't say aboot but it does seem Americans hear it that way. Since "raising" is not part of US vowel sounds, it is a strange sound to an American audience, and comes across that way to their ears. But the Canadian pronunciation is much more like you'd sing "Shout" or "Let it all out" by Tears for Fears.
How Canadians pronounce "about" is the cutest thing lol... regards a New Zealander haha
I never say it, must be an Ontario thing.
@A C M;yes,it's definitely pronounced:"aboot",as a nice,striking,young lady from Winnepeg came to visit me for the first time,and I,not believing she'd actually come from such a distance,saw her car pull slowly past the smoking-booths behind my job with Manitoba plates attached, nervously approached her cars' passenger side and asked:"Em,is that you?!?" She cutely and sarcastically spoke aloud to herself:"I've"BEAN"(been)on the "ROOD"(road)"ABOOT"(about)twelve HOURS and HE asks:"Is it ME?!?" "YES,it's----"me"you dumb"Yankee";how many OTHER chicks from Manitoba were you EXPECTING today?!? C'mere you!!"as she LEAPED upon me ,wrapping her arms around my shoulders and her legs around my waist!! All the women at this hospital who wouldn't show me any"love"/affection turned GREEN as algae at seeing this ,shapely,busty,blonde Patricia Arquette look-alike with a Marilyn Monroe cheek mole clamped tightly around me!! I'll always look upon Canadian women favorably because of her!!
In Scotland we say "aboot" canadians say a weird ow sound.
THERE'S A MOOSE LOOSE ABOOT THIS HOOSE!
😆 😂 😛.
It's aboot time you got a cat!
Nothing beats Boston accent. Paak the caa by the baa it's not too faa.
“For FUCKS SAKE!!! It’s a faint fucking accent! You can hardly tell!”
WE DONT SAY ABOOT
It's not 'aboot" it's really more 'aboat'
That's it
i moved to canada 17 years ago (calgary/toronto) and have never heard anyone say aboot
That's because no one ever has.
Yeah, no one says 'aboot'; never heard it unless it was done on purpose. Hear 'a-boat' tons. Especially outside of bigger cities.
The "about/aboot" pronunciation stereotype actually comes from the Scottish immigrants who settled in Canada hundreds of years ago. Listen to how a Scot living in Scotland today pronounces "about". It's not a Canadian thing, its a Scottish thing lol
So english and french things are canadian but scottish are not?
Right, as I told my step dad (who is Scottish) about this and that my Canadian real dad doesn't talk like that, he went on and said :"oh really? We actually do that too in Scotland"
Very interesting topic
We say oot and aboot in northeast England too
You say that, but having lived in Scotland most of my life, I find it stands out when Canadians say it. It's fascinating how all these accents move, drift, change, and recombine.
I totally agree. It's not a Canadian thing, except that children of immigrants would pick these things up. So it became something some Canadians did.
"...how 'boat you?" 🤣🤣🤣 I love it, gices me life!
This is how the Scottish Literally talk LITERALLY but the with scots the "oo" sound is more pronounced. "oot" "aboot" and "Hoos" are all scots sounds and words, LITERALLY. What you failed to mention was that there was a large Scottish Migration to Canada and therefore the scots sounds were picked up by Canadians. Novo Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland"!!!
That's a great point! We should make another video on Canadian history! Great idea :)
Thats why the Canadians are sound ye could say "any McDonald's aboot" & get a reply lol
Yeah, English isn’t my first language but in Eastern Canada - Nova Scotia primarily, but also in a place called Prince Edward Island I notice it’s like a mix of American, Welsh/West Country English accents, Northern English, and strong similarities to Northern Irish. I didn’t notice the Scottish, but I suppose it’s there.
dont use that word..... "Literally"......u sound like a 2022 teen dbag........this word was and is still not needed.........and used so wrong.......fact.....
It's never aboot and actually more like abeowt. I don't know how two Canadians can't tell how they actually pronounce words in their own national accent. Like seriously?
I can't hear my own accent, It's strange. And sometimes I pronounce words differently (from different accents) without noticing
Fortunately you don't fake it like JJ mcoulough. He exaggerates it for coins.
i was watching yoga hosers and was so confused on their pronunciation of "about" and thought it was a joke or something lmaooo
something else I've noticed is the way many statements start rising in pitch as if they are asking a question, when it is not a question. Example 0:19
That's a regional thing. The in the video from Vancouver was doing that.
Friends across the "POND"
Atlantic Ocean after hearing this----
'Emotional Damage😢'
😂🙂😂 I love that "oot and aboot" at the end ❤
There's actually a bar around here called Oot an Aboot and it cracks me up. I love our country.
THEY SAY A BOAT..........NOT A BOOT YOUR GONNA LACE UP...
@@theewelder....I'm a Canadian. I know I don't say either of those.
Some Canadians say 'aboat'. None say 'aboot'.@@kylie6243
Want to blend in with canadians? Say the word "like" at least six times in every sentence, as fast as you can. They will think you're one of them.
that's true in the US too.
I thought that was a California thing.
Thanks for this. I have read about the Canadian Raising but didn't quite get it. Would be nice to have an American and someone from the UK with you to hear the differences.
I'm American and I've always used "route" (root) and "route" (rowt) interchangeably when talking about a path, while reserving "route" (rowt) solely for discussing its second meaning of being defeated in battle. Cheers.
That last one is spelled rout.
Not one time did either of you say aboot
2:15 awesome accent
The key is vowels and when to and not to stress them.
i don't think it is "aboot". it sounds closer to "aboat", as in "a boat sailed into the sunset."
Because it's not 'aboot'.
When I lived in Canada, I noticed quickly that the so-called "aboot" sound was not "oo" (International Phonetic Alphabet "uː") at all, but really roughly the sounds represented by German ö through ü (usually closer to the former, which in turn is closer to "o" and the sometimes-attested rural Canadian "aboat" pronunciation of "about"). To my ears, they varied in exact delivery depending on speaker/region, with sounds that have IPA symbols of œ, ɤ, ɵ, and ʏ depending on exact point of articulation. Something similar happens with the same class of words ("about", "out", "house", etc.) in parts of rural Pennsylvania. I've noticed a similar pattern in Scottish Gaelic, which I've started studying recently. While the pronuciation guides for that language generally don't get so fine, recordings of actual dialectal speakers from various parts of the Scottish Highlands and Islands clearly sometimes have sounds in the œ, ɤ, ɵ, and ʏ range, and vary regionally (and possibly also by age group, with younger speakers often being school-taught; a similar shift is happening in Irish Gaelic, with a national and "simplified" standard starting to supplant local dialectal variation). Given that Scottish and Scots-Irish (Ulster Scots) immigrants were numerous both in colonial Pennsylania and colonial Upper Canada and the Canadian Martimes (the latter of which still have exant Gaelic-speaking populations in a few places), they seem a likely source of this range of vowels in Pennsylvania and Canada (though the German and Dutch immigrants to Pennsylvania may have reinforced these sounds there).
I agree it sounds different, I just don’t hear it as aboot though, even in all these examples. It would be good to hear some side by side comparisons. I’ve been in the states all winter and when people say ‘about’ here, it doesn’t jump out at me as different like say, tour, or route.
To me as a Yank from New Jersey & now California, the Canadian "about" sounds more like "a ⛵" more than "a 🥾"
Thank Yoo !
Check out JJ McCullough. His "about" is very exaggerated to even the Canadian ear.
You said ab out
They are really focusing on not saying aboot at first but when they don't think about it they go full on aboot and aboat lol
I know a Canadian that says aboot and she always says she does it on purpose saying things weird. For some reason i feel she is kind of embarrassed about it but i love it.
If she is Canadian, she does not naturally say 'aboot' - maybe 'aboat' or 'abaowt'. Maybe you hear it as 'aboot' for some reason; I don't know.
I don’t think I will ever fool a Canadian, being a 7th generation Texan, I met a couple guys from Glenwood Springs, and I was wanting to hear them say “ey”, they didn’t have to wait long to hear “y’all” from me!
A 50% Canuk here. The "aboot" is never that strong. It's subtle. It's "about" with a little bit more "ooh." Just a tad. The dead giveaway for Toronto is when you say, "tr'ranna." But that was a good clip there, eh?
To me that NB vowel sound isn't "a boot". It's more like "abeoot" without a Y sound. There's nothing like it in any British accent. I had a work colleague from Vancouver once and he initiated me into that idiosyncrasy. It's instantly recognisable. I was listening to a CZcams video recently from someone I'd always assumed to be from the US, when BAM! Abeoot occurred and it was a total revelation. I had no idea it was so ingrained in me.
And I think the Canadians in South Park know what this is all aboot.
Class video
It is definitely not "aboot" but "aboat".
Audra and Maria are true Canadians -- English teachers with a sense of humour -- and that is "humor" with a bit of Canadian spice :)
nobody says "a-boot" unless they're trying to lol. it's "a-boat"
Canadian accent is basically American but with elements of Scottish slang
To me it sounds more like somewhere between "about" and " a boat" it is us Scottish people that say "aboot"
The only person in Canada who actually says "aboot" is
JJ McCullough and it's forced.
Thank you.
Audra have any channel in youtube ?
Who else is here because y’all searched that rampage mission where Trevor gets mocked by the two soldiers for his accent? 💀 😂
Torontonian and I say "abowt" 🤷♀️
I say more like “aboat” I’m from Toronto lol
Both pronunciations of "route" are used in the U.S.
Canadian men tend to lower their voices when they say "about" (sometimes sounding like "a boat")
There's a moose loose, aboot the hoose.
Only, the moose in Canada has horns and is the size of a truck.
star labs is in the background
Right o. Mighty fine.
Will a bout about a bound boat found around a cloud arouse a house mouse?
Canadian here. About rhymes with doubt. Not boot, or boat.
Some Cdns would rhyme it with 'boat'.
Nice hair ❤
I really hear this now...often Americans say it like 'abawt', more of an 'au' sound than the 'ou' sound that Canadians use.
Canadians inherited some words from Scotland for due to Scottish people migrating there years ago. For instance out is oot in Canadian and about is aboot.
How I learnt this is one of my cousins friends is Canadian. They don't like it when they are called American
"For instance out is oot in Canadian and about is aboot." Nope.
Great
I live in Canada , but I'm not from Canada. I usually don't catch those pronunciation differences. Now i could see the small really the differences between Canada and USA way of speaking.
Dipende da che parte del Canada, ti assicuro che in Alberta non hanno lo stesso accento di Quebec o Ontario
i think some people say aboat. definitely not aboot. the number is relatively few though. i think we say it a little bit like the scots. i dont know how to write it. the guys video was how ive seen most people say it.
Southpark is so funny for poking fun at this
I am seeing this video because of how I met your mother 🤣
Where is Stephen Abootman of the WGA?
The "out" at the end sounds more Irish to me!
As a non-native speaker living in my home country I don't actually notice the difference (besides "route") if you're not exaggerating it.
Far oot video!
Im in my hoose figuring oot what to do aboot my day! Thanks
English is not my first language but I pretty much got that North American accent, the question being which one? Then one day, I was talking to an Angolan guy in my judo class and unconsciously said the Canadian "about".
I work in the oilpatch in northern Alberta, so I get the privilege of working with Canadians from all over the country. The “oowt” sound seems to be more pronounced in eastern Canadians, but I’ve noticed our politicians and government officials in the west have it too. Might have something to do with them spending time in Ottawa and interacting with more easterners.
A privilege ???????........its more like a laff AT THEM as they say......."a boat" not "a boot".............sad fuks everywere...
That's because Scottish immigrants landed in eastern Canada, and slowly made their way west. The Irish accent is responsible for whatever newfies speak I believe 😂
It's taken on a more punjabi-Caribbean affectation in it's current arabic
This is very subtle. Even in central Scotland it's dated. It's probably more common in Newcastle. The only thing it'll bring to mind on here is a Maynard Bassett Wine Gums 'Set the Juice Loose' wine gums advert with the sterotypical Scot
It's New Englanders who pronounce it 'abaht', that think we speak like the Irish. I grew up in a village in Eastern Ontario and never heard anyone speak that way, However if you meet with a Newfoundlander...
hosehold... lol
When visiting the US, I always get accused of having a Canadian accent. I’m Swedish! Although I did play hockey in Canada for a while.
Go to Minnesota and you might find some long lost distant cousins.
We, in the States, USED to make fun of the Canadians because of the way they said "about" and "house" with a rising tone. However; we have stopped doing that, because
Americans NOW say those words exactly the same way as Canadians. I think the two reasons Americans subconsciously changed the way they say these two words is,
first: it is actually a bit easier to say them Canadian way; and second: it sounds better to the ear because it emphasizes the ending vowels...ending with a lighter more melodic
French sound, rather than the previous harsher and downward tones, that resemble German.
Thanks for your comment! That's very interesting :) I also find the variety of accents throughout the United States to be so fascinating. There is such a stark difference from one state to the next. I've noticed that people from some northern states speak with a similar accent as Canadians, although I have yet to travel down south to notice what you have mentioned here. Thanks for participating in the discussion :)
You gotta stop hanging on to those stereotypes. Everyone I met who ACTUALLY has talked to a German before or decided to move to Germany, they all say the same: there's nothing harsh, violent, aggressive or loud tune to German.
This is what the majority of Americans believe, because the only German/austrian they've ever heard talking was Hitler while his speeches. I don't know, but most of them are seemingly not able to differentiate from a normal chat to a set up emotional speech - it's simple acting.
So please, get either rid of your stereotypical depiction of us, OR learn the language, talk to an average German and make up your own mind based on facts and the undeniable truth. If you keep your opinion I'm ok with it. But people always think they know exactly about other stuff ike countries and languages, even if they have never left their own state
@@englishforcanada In NYC, not only are there differences in accents between boroughs, but differences even within boroughs, some of which are tied to ethnicity and class. I'd have to listen very carefully (which I don't normally do) to pick out differences between an educated Manhattanite's accent and that of her counterpart in Vancouver. Cultural and linguistic differences are cool, don't get me wrong, I just don't emphasize them when communicating with other Anglophones.
@@englishforcanadaSpeaking of northern states, in northern New York and Vermont we say “tuque” to refer to a winter hat. My guess is it came from all the Quebecers who immigrated down here in the 19th century looking for work. We have lots of French surnames, and even cities and towns with French names. But most of the spellings and pronunciations have been Anglicized.
There are regions where they do and always have, but no, most Americans do not.
Is there a moose loose somewhere? XD
ABOUT NOT ABOOT ASK ANYONE I KNOW THEYLL SAY IM SAYING ABOUT
Scottish style. Juice loose aboot this hoose.
JJ McCollough is definitely a faker (a Canadian CZcamsr) he's one of those identifying himself to the Canadian culture. Nothing bad about this. I'm quite proud of my Canadian heritage too, I half a Canadian. But he's putting on a thick Canadian accent and pronouncing the word "about" not only wrong but also completely exaggerated (as I just found out) Thanks for this video
There is multiple different accents in Canada. Canada is the second biggest country in the world and has a variety of different accents. I'm sure that his accent is not faked
@@bread8095 he's from the same area of Canada as me. NO ONE talks like that. He is 100% putting it on. Even if he was from Newfoundland, where the "oot" is more pronounced, he would have other markers of that accent in his speech. But he doesn't. He just says aboot in a really exaggerated way.
1:21 The Canadian Raisin
Canada is cold so when you’re out and about make sure you wear a boot
I'm from Oshawa, near Toronto, I'm pretty sure I don't say ABOOT, I say about like AHH-BOUT, almost like saying like A boat. I dunno how else to say "boat" like B-out.
I'm pretty sure you don't say ABOOT, too, because no Cdn says it.
still better sounds than in phonetical languages (e.g. Russian) when the consonants are more solid and hard and the vowels shorter. АБАУТ! as if you are saying it as Abahh-ooh-T but not too stretchy.
I’m from Detroit and I didn’t hear either them say aboot a boot I think Canadians say the “ou” better than Americans we say “aou“ with more of a pronounced A I but that’s just what I think
In Windsor, it's very much 'abaowt'; further north-east, you start getting 'aboat'.
You both say it.
Look we all watch South park so we know you say aboot. 😂
So I'm a Southern Ontarian, and I say "About" as a - bowt like every else would, in north America and I have been saying it all my life. But in October of 2021 I was watching this one Canadian youtuber who would say aboot and at first I was so fascinated by it but did not think anything else and just focused on the video. But they more I watched his videos at early December and the more I hear him say "aboot" the more it gets in my head so slowly but surely I have been saying "aboot" and say around as "aroond." So as some cases when I'm talking and I say about I would aboot or in some cases I would say about. Same goes for around. And I would get annoyed because
1) People somtimes make fun of me
2) it's just annoying and a bit cringy
3)It makes it sound like as if I'm faking it and I do it just to sound diffrent or quirky which I kinda not because it just comes in natural. When we talk we have a general point on what we gonna say but we dont think what word were gonna say or how we gonna pronounce it.
Tldr, I used to say about but said aboot and a bout because of a canadian youtuber.
Sorry for the rant, eh?
I've lived in Toronto my whole life, you never hear aboot anywhere but Americans trying to sound Canadian lol
You were probably watching JJ McCullough, a Canadian youtuber who says aboot in an exaggerated way. He absolutely does it on purpose just to be quirky and different. The natural Canadian accent sounds more like "a boat", as we can hear in this video.
"like every else would, in north America" - No - Americans would hear it different from the pronunciation they're used to.
"A boot"?
I remember Trevor from GTA V had rage killing spree when cops joked aboot his canadian accent 😄
It wasn’t the cops it was the military actually which was probably worse lmao
Wow
Why would ANYONE want to sound more Canadian 😭😭😭😭
ayo thats star labs in the back!?!?!
It's aboot time Canajuns stopped using the word 'um'.
NO!
Only people I've ever heard say 'aboot' are Americans. All of your examples sound exactly the same to me.
Oat in a boat
Everytime I tell A Canadian they say aboot they get super angry and say "I dont know what you are talking aboot" its funny :) Love Canadians just think its funny they are in total denial aboot it eh?
For years, I've been asking people to link to a vid. in which a Canadian (other than McCullough) actually says, "aboot". Still waiting.
@@hilariousname6826 czcams.com/video/4WcOcgc3WN4/video.html you welcome :D
The comments are hilarious. "I don't do that!" Lol
Aboat is not aboot.
peter mckinnon is the reason why i can tell when someone's canadian
No. No one says aboot in Canada. It has to be the biggest myth about Canadians.
I completely agree. I am an American, and what I hear from Canadians is something close to "a boat". For comparison, almost all Americans say "a bowt" (with the "ow" sound more or less rhyming with the "ow" in "cow"), except for a tiny fraction of people who live close to Canada.
I'm British (from England) and I hear the different pronunciation from Canadians but I have heard it similarly from Americans from Minnesota and other states in that area.
7 years since I moved to Canada and many times when I pointed out this pronunciation, they denied that this is the way they say it, or that they say it any differently. I realized that they can’t really hear it, the same way a black person cannot hear that they say AXED instead of ASKED
I am Canadian and dont want to sound Canadian anymore. Trudolf made us an embaressment.