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It was designed to be a "bust" — the Shad Heads'term for good-natured ribbing or practical jokes, such as drilling a hole in aboat angler's pee can — but Flynn seeks the limelight like a shad seeks shade, and he can take as good as he gives.
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A soldier picks up many tricks of blasphemy in a career about the world with foreign legions, and John had the reddings of three or four languages at his command, so that he had no need to repeat himself much in his choice of terms aboat his chief.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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I have noticed Canadians on tv shows (like Wishbone!) saying "aboat" and "soary" (for about and sorry).
Happy Canada Day! Jen 2009
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Of course the vowels in "aboat" and "aboot" are diphthongs as well, just different ones.
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In general, it sounds more like "aboat" than "aboot." on 03 / 24 / 2009, -1 / +1Don't worry so much about it.
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So whats the point of knocking around some guys on aboat?
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One yes and one no will tell us aboat where intransigence lies.
Matthew Yglesias » Sari Nusseibeh’s Big Idea for Peace in the Middle East 2009
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So whats the point of knocking around some guys on aboat?
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I've always thought of Toronto as the mellowest film festival, where the staff is unfailingly pleasant and everyone pronounces "about" "aboat."
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Ai lub OP, butz ai lik te tink aboat des kittehs ai libbed wtih!
Dis muss be 1 of dem hairless kittehz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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