[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> "Youse want more beer?" Thus inquired the waitress at a steak house in 
> Oshawa
> (just a half hour east of Toronto as you know). "Youse" is heard in many 
> medium
> sized towns in Ontario. In Buffalo and along the Niagara frontier, any 
> word
> containing a short "a" has an "ay" preceding it..i.e. Amherst is 
> pronounced
> "Ayamherst". I remembered this the other week when I took an item into the
> Radio Shack repair depot for Graham Newton, and told them his name..which 
> they
> promptly typed up as "Gram".
>
It has all but vanished these days...but when I first arrived in Canada 
(early seventies)
the Scottish origins of many Ontario settlers meant that "out" or "about" 
often sounded
more like "oot" or "aboot"...!

...stevenc