write_light ([identity profile] write-light.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] vintageads2012-12-11 08:25 pm

It wouldn't be Holiday Time without...

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Cakes & Pies
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AND FRUITCAKE!

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A&P, 1939
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Look at the cute little Santas! :D

[identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Gingies. They remind me of Gingy from the Shrek movies.

Easy Date Bars and Noel Nut Balls [INSERT TASTELESS JOKE HERE]

"Aboot"? She dresses Scottish, but she's speaking Canadian!

Santa and the chef should lay off that fruitcake a bit. That's a heck of a lotta belly fat!

[identity profile] bluebear2.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Canadians don't say "aboot".

[identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's how Americans think Canadians say it. ;)

[identity profile] bluebear2.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
True, to Americans' ears it sounds like "aboot". The other way, to Canadians' ears it sounds like Americans are saying "Abaht".

I guess accents are a spectrum. From the point of view of blue, purple seems reddish and to the point of view of red, purple seems blueish.

[identity profile] mellzie-1963.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It always sounds more like "a boat" to my ears, when my Ontario buds use it.

[identity profile] pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com 2012-12-12 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool! I love talking about diphthongs and alveolar flaps. No, really, I do. I took a linguistics class in college and LOVED IT! Sometimes wish I had majored in that so I could be underemployed in that field instead.