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Skriven 2011-04-06 17:01:18 av Stewart Arnett (3:772/100)
  Kommentar till text 16424 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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Hello Roy.

05 Apr 11 16:28, you wrote to me:

 RW> 05 Apr 11 19:45, Stewart Arnett wrote to Roy Witt:

 >>>>> Just like the canadians say oot when they mean out?

 JD>>>> You got it backwards.  We say roof, and down south they say
 JD>>>> ruff

 RW>>> Oot vs out wasn't from speculation, that was actual experience
 RW>>> with a co-worker at Boeing in Seattle, who was from Canada.

 SA>> I don't know about the Canadians I have only had 2 aquaintences
 SA>> whom were Canadian, one I bought a ship off and he had been in NZ
 SA>> longer than I and had lost most of his original twang.

 RW> We have something in common, I went partners with a guy in a life-boat
 RW> that we attempted to make into a sail-boat. He was German and had
 RW> spent more time in Italy (sailing in much nicer weather I'll bet) than
 RW> he had in Germany. We both worked at Boeing and on the boat, after.
 RW> When we left Seattle, it wasn't quite finished and the investment was
 RW> very little, so I told him he could have my half of the boat.

I've seen some very good converted lifeboats, the ship I bought off the
canadian was a 62 1/2 foot steel Ketch rigged motor sailer I had it for a
decade (1990 - 2000) and exchanged it for a house and land on an Island just
off Auckland 5 hectares of hill top with 360 degree views. It wasn't worth much
then but now it is worth in six figures several times. Big boat prices were at
a premium then because of the America's cup. Dale the canadian guy drowned in a
kayaking accident in 2003 when he found a water fall he didn't know was there
and didn't stop in time.

 SA>> The other was a very arrogant French Canadian, 2IC of our
 SA>> security at my University. He looked down on any one who didn't
 SA>> speak French or understood it until one morning he got on the
 SA>> wrong side of Dutch man who managed one of the other departments
 SA>> and got a jolly good telling off in French from the guy who was
 SA>> fluent in French, English, Dutch, and German. If I remember he
 SA>> left a short time after the exchange.

 RW> The Scot I had to work with when I got to San Diego was one of those
 RW> guys and he was the leader in our job. He'd get mad when I continously
 RW> asked him to repeat himself. Then his mood changed from good to bad
 RW> and I couldn't understand anything he said. Eventually I took my que
 RW> from the owner who translated what the Scot had said.

He needed sub titles then.

 RW>>> PS - I've never heard anyone in the south pronounce roof as
 RW>>> ruff. That would confuse everyone because there is a word we
 RW>>> use; rough - that is pronounced like that.

 SA>> In England we say Roof like woof (doggy talk) ruff is a bit rough
 SA>> I never heard of a roof before I landed in New Zealand where they
 SA>> say Roof as in Boot.

 RW> Boot, Roof, Woof, Zoo, all sound alike here.

Sounds like you have effeminate dogs then :)

Stewart

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