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My friend Mark Christian works for PBWiki. I know he's a bona-fide Canadian because he pronounces it 'aboot.' He's pretty enterprising.

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We're from Canada - we're not from Minnesota. I honestly have never gotten how Americans interpret our "about"'s as aboot's ;)

It sounds more like "aboat" to me.

I thought the same until I was doing my time in silicon valley. I got made fun of pretty mercilessly at lunch meetings when I said "about". I figure Americans tend to say "Abowt".

The only the that bothered me was that the British guy got a pass for pronouncing "Java" with an "R".

Ditto here. I'm from Nova Scotia originally and spent the last few years in southern Ontario (Toronto and Waterloo). I never noticed my accent, though, until I lived in California.

I've never really gotten the "aboot" thing (although there were two folks from Minnesota at the company for a while, and they sort of did it). I get ragged on for saying "sawry" instead of "sorry", however.

PS: we're PBworks now, not PBwiki, chirag. :)

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