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Originally Posted by issybird
Here's the specific difficulty: arjaybe is... Canadian! I'm in the Yank ANcillARy camp myself, but who the heck knows what's right for Canucks? They mostly sound like us except for that weird "aboot"* thing, but there are exceptions. We need to hear from those west** of the border.
*I just finished listening to a Robertson Davies book read by Frederick Davidson and I was charmed to hear that he altered his normal accent to say "aboot."
**Alas, from my particular vantage point, west of the border is as accurate as north of the border. I have a crony in Ontario whose town is on the exact latitude as mine, within minutes.
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My daughter's Student's Oxford Canadian Dictionary gives the pronunciation as (ann SILLA ree)