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WayToHip wrote:^Texas mostly; Texans came here when we found oil and told the people here to stop drinking tea and playing polo and to drink coffee and ride bulls. Really really.
Do these Texas-influenced Albertans wear Cowboy hats but say "about" "aboot." Or do they have some Canadian hick accent?
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WayToHip wrote:^Texas mostly; Texans came here when we found oil and told the people here to stop drinking tea and playing polo and to drink coffee and ride bulls. Really really.
ew.
Actually I remember liking Alberta despite ALL THE FUCKING MOSQUITOES!!! but I have been there since I was 12 :)*
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^^Edit: Yeah, Alberta is great, Mountains to the west, vast prairies everywhere south and Taiga in the north. No big lakes or rivers here, so that sucks.
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WayToHip wrote:^Texas mostly; Texans came here when we found oil and told the people here to stop drinking tea and playing polo and to drink coffee and ride bulls. Really really.
Do these Texas-influenced Albertans wear Cowboy hats but say "about" "aboot." Or do they have some Canadian hick accent?
HAHAHA, I have a "Texan/Western" accent to people from Ontario, who say "aboot". Baseball caps are the main hat around here, but old farmers/Hutterites/Mennonites wear their Stetsons everywhere. No shit, when I first heard "aboot" it was a year ago and I spit out my beer; I thought the guy was fucking with us.
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WayToHip wrote:^^Edit: Yeah, Alberta is great, Mountains to the west, vast prairies everywhere south and Taiga in the north. No big lakes or rivers here, so that sucks.
Faldoe wrote:
WayToHip wrote:^Texas mostly; Texans came here when we found oil and told the people here to stop drinking tea and playing polo and to drink coffee and ride bulls. Really really.
Do these Texas-influenced Albertans wear Cowboy hats but say "about" "aboot." Or do they have some Canadian hick accent?
HAHAHA, I have a "Texan/Western" accent to people from Ontario, who say "aboot". Baseball caps are the main hat around here, but old farmers/Hutterites/Mennonites wear their Stetsons everywhere. No shit, when I first heard "aboot" it was a year ago and I spit out my beer; I thought the guy was fucking with us.
The only time I have ever actually heard someone actually say aboot was from a very irritating border guard...
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I'm in NW Ontario. I never got the "aboot" thing. :idk: I've never heard anyone say that seriously. Some people say it kinda like "abeout" but there's no "oo" sound, and it's still not common. There's a Newfie accent, and a french accent, and there's people like Rick Mercer that say "car" like "ker". I don't know where that comes from. We do say "eh" though.
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kaeth wrote:I'm in NW Ontario. I never got the "aboot" thing. :idk: I've never heard anyone say that seriously. Some people say it kinda like "abeout" but there's no "oo" sound, and it's still not common. There's a Newfie accent, and a french accent, and there's people like Rick Mercer that say "car" like "ker". I don't know where that comes from. We do say "eh" though.
s ontario, but I notice is that I say "eggs" with an a sound instead of ehh/e sound. :idk:


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