That one made me chuckle. It's like the Canadians who always flail their arms and say, "Won't don't say ABOOT! No one says ABOOT. We all say ABOOT (though it is between a-boot and a-boat)!"

If you can't hear the difference, you're fucking deaf.

Or retarded.

Well, Sputum is possibly deaf in that he genuinely can't hear the difference in those vowel sounds. Lots of people who grew up only hearing accents that have merged vowel sounds appear incapable of hearing the differences -- the pin/pen merge being the classic example in the southern US.

Of course, such people should refrain from pretensions to being dialogue coaches.

"and I used to live in england.", but I guess I'm wrong here, so I'll back down.

Smellvin are you Texan? I know plenty of Americans that say 'about' the same way I do. It's only in the South where people take one vowel sound and make several. 'About' become A-BAY-OWT.

I love this woman, but I'm slightly biased towards almost any accent that's not southern U.S.

Sputum, I think that ToucheTurtle is acknowledging the fact that you used to live in England with his comment.

Also, I've lived near Canada all my life and have never ever heard of a Canadian (outside of Southpark) who has reacted that way to a comment about their accent. For that matter, I've never met or known of a Canadian who actually says ABOOT. It's funny in Southpark, but it's a huge exaggeration.

On the subject of Canadian accents, I would like to point out that while I don't deny the truth of many accusations, western Canadians like myself speaking significantly better than anyone from Saskatchewan east. This is an important distinction.

'"and I used to live in england.", but I guess I'm wrong here, so I'll back down.' I still do. Unfortunately.

Nope. I'm a New Englander with the standard (correct) neutral American accent.

Also, it's soda, not pop, dammit.

'Fister'

"Subtle differences you can't put your finger on?" The instructor is insidiously training people to talk like Lloyd Grossman.