Maybe it's a class thing but my Picton, Ontario relatives said something close enough to "aboot" to be rendered "aboot."
It's a pet peeve of mine. I've recorded myself saying "about" and played it back for friends who said it sounded like "aboot!" I hear "about" dammit!
They say it like that in the Shenandoah Valley (with a correspondingly similar version of тАЮhouseтАЬ, тАЮmouseтАЬ, &c).
I've always heard "aboat" but then, I'm from a city that mixes Upper Midwest with Mississippi Delta.
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Maybe it's a class thing but my Picton, Ontario relatives said something close enough to "aboot" to be rendered "aboot."
It's a pet peeve of mine. I've recorded myself saying "about" and played it back for friends who said it sounded like "aboot!" I hear "about" dammit!
They say it like that in the Shenandoah Valley (with a correspondingly similar version of тАЮhouseтАЬ, тАЮmouseтАЬ, &c).
I've always heard "aboat" but then, I'm from a city that mixes Upper Midwest with Mississippi Delta.