as a canadian, i have to admit it's probably true. sure the way we say "about" sounds natural to us, but after you hear a couple of americans say "a-bay-ow-tuh" you have to wonder how our pronunciation sounds to them.
and i used to think that the "eh" thing was just a stupid joke till i started noticing how much i do it myself. it's just that it's a purely verbal thing so it seems ridiculous when i see it written out.
oh and one final thing: i assume that the original poster was aware, but staroffice (and most word processing software) does in fact have a Canadian English setting. We spell many words differently than Americans ("color" vs. "colour").
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as a canadian, i have to admit it's probably true. sure the way we say "about" sounds natural to us, but after you hear a couple of americans say "a-bay-ow-tuh" you have to wonder how our pronunciation sounds to them. and i used to think that the "eh" thing was just a stupid joke till i started noticing how much i do it myself. it's just that it's a purely verbal thing so it seems ridiculous when i see it written out. oh and one final thing: i assume that the original poster was aware, but staroffice (and most word processing software) does in fact have a Canadian English setting. We spell many words differently than Americans ("color" vs. "colour").