RE: Canadian English (WAS: Writing for a particular audience)

Subject: RE: Canadian English (WAS: Writing for a particular audience)
From: "Lutey Amanda L" <LuteyAmandaL -at- JohnDeere -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:19:40 -0500


>From: "Sue Ahrenhold" <SAhrenhold -at- IpdSolution -dot- com>
>Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:07:42 -0400

>Please, let's not forget that many of us who are technically =
>south-of-the-border also use oot and aboot.
>I went to college in upstate New York, and now live in Michigan.

>I refuse to believe that all my Yupper friends (that is, those who grew =
>up in the Upper Peninsula) have the same speech impediment.

It's a dialect, and a dying one. We moved from the Upper Peninsula to
Colorado when I was nine, and everyone thought we were from Canada.

And it's Yooper, eh.

-Amanda Lutey

Say yeah to da UP, eh!




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