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Why has everybody suddenly gone Scottish on here?

Posted - March 30, 2020
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  • 44614
    Just because I drink Scotch whiskey does not mean I am Scottish. I can fake a pretty guud accent, though.
      March 30, 2020 11:40 AM MDT
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  • 2148
    I keep seeing "aboot" in various questions. Is that not how they say "about" in Scotland?
      April 1, 2020 11:11 AM MDT
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  • 44614
    Canada.
      April 1, 2020 11:13 AM MDT
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  • 2219
    ...and Scots. 
      April 1, 2020 2:13 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    I haven't been to Canada and I don't recall hearing Gordon Lightfoot pronouncing it like that.
      April 2, 2020 1:22 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Do you remember Peter Jennings?
      April 2, 2020 1:52 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    No, I don't remember Peter Jennings.
      April 2, 2020 3:43 PM MDT
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  • 2219
    As in 'a moose aboot the hoose', but it's not the Canadian moose. 
      April 2, 2020 2:04 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    "Hoots Mon (There's A Moose Loose Aboot This Hoose)" was by Lord Rockingham's XI. They weren't Canadian, they were Scottish. Lord Rockingham himself (real name Harry Robinson) was from the Scottish city of Elgin.
      April 2, 2020 3:42 PM MDT
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  • 2219
    What this Hoots Mon. My post clearly implies that the saying is not Canadian. As you note, it is Scots. Indeed it is regularly bandied aboot colloquially without the benefit of your erudite reference. 
      April 3, 2020 1:28 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    "Hoots Mon" was the first Scottish rock 'n' roll song to top the charts (it got to number one in 1958). It goes like this:
      April 3, 2020 6:54 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Let's ask Nanoose.
      April 2, 2020 3:48 PM MDT
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  • 2219
    Ye havnae quite got the Scots spelling; it's whisky and guid. 
      April 1, 2020 2:12 PM MDT
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  • 1893
    I'm with Element here I may drink Single Malt, however I have no Scots Blood.  English Blood from around 1066 on my mothers side and an Scottish Aunt - she married in.  My dad got rid of the Brother and we kept our beloved Aunt

    Now about Aboot, Canadian pure and simple like great Poutine
      April 1, 2020 1:22 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Northern Minasootens also say it, OK?
      April 1, 2020 4:36 PM MDT
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  • 1893
    For sure, you betcha. 

    Guess who is to their North - Canada.  The closer you get to the border the more one hears it.  In Warroad MN it is more than common, it is the local dialect

      April 2, 2020 3:04 PM MDT
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  • 44614
    Yep.
      April 2, 2020 3:34 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    Going oot and aboot isn't Scottish, it's Canadian, eh?
      April 2, 2020 3:15 PM MDT
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  • 2219
    Think Mackenzie to see whaur it cam fae. 
      April 3, 2020 1:29 PM MDT
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  • Regarding the Scots, other guys try to imitate us but the original is still the greatest, to borrow the lyrics of a popular song.
      April 2, 2020 3:21 PM MDT
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  • 7792
    Whit th' buck ur ye talkin' abit? This post was edited by Zack at April 3, 2020 1:34 PM MDT
      April 3, 2020 1:34 PM MDT
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