Bizarro: Canadian C.S.I.

1. Laurabee
   June 27th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

   do people honestly think Canadians say Aboot?

   i’ve lived here my entire life, the only place i’ve heard “aboot” is while driving in north dakota and Minnesota… and it wasn’t coming from any canadians i knew.

2. sonyarawr
   June 27th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   I was born and raised in Canada, and I’ve never heard anyone in this country say “aboot”.

3. sadtomato
   June 27th, 2008 at 4:46 pm

   I was just going to say the same thing! No one says ‘aboot’ in Canada! Where does this lie come from?

4. jimmyhoffascorpse
   June 27th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

   i heard Bruce Macullah say it in the Daves I know sketch…but that’s about it….
   still a funny cartoon in my opinion!

5. ted
   June 27th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

   Not a word you’ll hear from a Canadian.

   I think I heard someone from the Maritimes say “aboot” once. But, it’s more of a Midwest US thing.

   South Park trots it out occasionally, and it’s cute.

6. stagger
   June 27th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

   No, we don’t say “aboot.” This is a horrible lie.

   However, we do say “aBOAT.” We are unable to hear it, though, for the same reason a fish would say “what water?”

   Go to California for a week or two and talk with some locals and you’ll realize how pronounced your “aboat” is (well, for most of us, anyway. For some reason my mother-in-law has a very nice round “abOUT” - nothing like the Californian “aBAOUWT” but not “aboat” either. Must be good breeding).

7. Ola Amigo
   June 27th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

   This is a nice gag but I don’t think most people in my neck of the woods, Colorado, really take it seriously. Let me put it this way, if they do, they probably take alot of crap from TV seriously. Pay no mind.

8. Ali S.
   June 27th, 2008 at 9:27 pm

   I never say aboot. However, people do say I have this weird way of saying “water”.

9. Polx
   June 28th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   It’s a boot

   Aboot what

   Aboot time you got a new joke

10. Neatoramawontsendmeapassword
    June 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    I don’t say “aBOAT”, either. My accent is probably closer to “abauoot”, if you want to get really technical. I’ve never had any Americans get after me about it, though. They were too busy laughing at how I said “orange” (”OHrange” as opposed to their “AHrange”).

    I think the West Coast accent is pretty homogeneous. Not much of a difference between California and British Columbia… at least not as far as I can tell. As you start to go east, however, I think you get more differences.

    Love the cartoon, though. And did you know there are now FIVE severed feet for the mystery?

11. Frankumi
    June 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am

    There’s a pie in the snow o_0

12. Øyvind
    June 30th, 2008 at 3:38 am

    I think this is all South Park’s fault.
    They make relentless fun of canadians, and I think they’ve used the ‘aboot’ a number of times.
    That said, I laughed til I cried when reading this strip.

13. DaMamaJama
    June 30th, 2008 at 9:14 am

    I say “a-BOUT”, but I also live near Niagara Falls, Ontario and get influenced from Buffalo media.
    I’ve been to a few eastern states (NY thru MD and DC), as well as CA and most recently WA and notice “route” being said as “r’OUT”, but I generally say “root”, so perhaps the “a-boot” myth is a result of differences in similar sounding and spelled words.
    Plus, and you can admit it, it’s fun to make fun of us Canadians.

14. Asparagus
    July 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    yup, count me among the many who have never heard a Canadian say “aboot”, and I’ve lived in a major Canadian city for 42 years. How did this myth get started? We do, however, say eh.

15. Tara
    July 2nd, 2008 at 3:06 pm

    The west coast says “eh” a lot. But I don’t really hear it as much on the east coast.

16. david chapman
    July 30th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    I’m soory but I’ve bean oot and aboat the hoowse on the ruuf playing badmittonne.
    

17. Weaver
    August 13th, 2008 at 10:26 pm

    I’m Canadian, and we only say “aboot” when we are referring (playfully) to Americans who make fun of us for something we don’t say.

18. Eynus
    August 17th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Canada fails.

19. the dude
    August 20th, 2008 at 6:25 am

    don’t make fun aboot the canadions, eh!

20. Keighlz
    March 23rd, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    I’m sorry, we here on the west coast almost never say ‘eh’ (aside from some of my friends who do it for fun around tourists). I have never heard any of the “Canadian” accent pronunciations here in Vancouver. Regardless this comic did make me chuckle.

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