Subj : National Anthem
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Ed Vance
Date : Fri Jan 24 2025 20:06:45


>   >> think of what is mostly a Northern or Eastern accent actually used by
>   >> very few of us. You expect us to say 'aboot' instead of about. For the
>   >> most part the bulk of us have no true accent, we just say words exactly
>   >> as they are spelled but, like in the USA, there are areas that do have
>   >> a distinctly different accent and often use different words for things.

>   >no accent.  They were sometimes difficult to understand, though, because
> by
>   >no accent I mean they also didn't accent any of their syllables.  If they
>   >spoke fast, it was difficult to catch some words.

> I was about to say you must have hit an area that speaks a little differently
> but then I thought, one thing I notice about a lot of American accents is
> that they draw out vowels so maybe you were hearing our usual 'accent' and
> to us (like for most people) we feel WE Don't have an accent..   B)

> That covers a lot of area. I grew up in Southern Ontario never more than
> a few miles from the Great Lakes. The last 39 years I've been on the
> shores of Georgian Bay, which is on Lake Huron. We are considered Central
> Ontario although treated like Northern Ontario by most government plans
> that change with where you live since anyone much more than 150 miles
> North of Toronto have the same basic living problems, a long distance
> between places and much colder temperatures in Winter, so we tend to
> get small rebates on energy used to heat the house and such.

>   >character, sounded slighly British, or sounded slightly French.  That was
>   >very few people.

> Yes, a lot of Northern areas are like that, and probably similar things
> in Alberta, which is sort of the 'Texas' of Canada.. (Not the French part)

> This year for the first time in many years I am staying through the
> winter in my cabin on the bay. For many years because they needed my
> help in winter I stayed with my parents in Parry Sound over the winter
> but they have both passed now and I had to decide what to do. I spent
> winters here for 13 years quite a while back so I had a rough idea of
> what to expect but it's a bit more of a challenge now that I'm older.

> This place has poor insulation and, for now, I can't use anything but
> the inadequate electric heat (60 AMP service) after the insurance company
> banned my use of the old wood stove I put in 40 years ago. Last night the
> temperature dropped down to at least -25c (-13f) and pails of water I had
> on the floor in the kitchen froze quite a bit. It was down near 40f when
> I woke up. I turn off the bigger heater and use just a single 2000 watt
> baseboard heater at night. It's actually left set to about 68f but it
> can't manage on its own when it drops much below freezing. On several
> cold nights I've woken up to it being near 40f in here, and most mornings
> it starts off closer to 50f than 60f.

> There's no practical way to keep running water going so I have a 'box'
> about 200 feet out on the ice covering a hole I break through each day
> to get pails of water and I have an out house (privy?) for a toilet so
> I am 'roughing' it a little bit here..

> BTW, this is not a money thing. I could easily afford to rent a house
> or apartment for winter or even year round but I would go stir crazy I
> think living in town all the time. Here, I spend so much time and energy
> just staying alive that I don't have much time to get bored..    B)

> Oh, and I sort of read with amusement what some people there say when
> you get a little snow. 3 or 4 times this year withing a day or two I
> have gotten 20 to 30 inches of snow at a time, which can make trudging
> out to get water even more fun.. 6 to 8 inches of snow is nothing..  B)

> ---
>  * SLMR Rob  * Celibacy is NOT hereditory


Once I. visited a family near Buffalo and they took us to Niagara Falls Canada.
I can't remember having trouble talking to workers in the Visitors Center .

I have a Amateur Radio (Ham) license and once talked with a Canadian who said
he was fixing frozen plumbing in his Summer home, this was in April.
I think the Summer home was North of where he andhis family lived.

Ed
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