Rochester NY here, I definitely hear it in Toronto / Ontario residents in the words “about” and “sorry”, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it sounds like a-boot and soo-ry. I think that’s an extreme exaggeration. The one word that’s always a dead giveaway for me though is the word “process”.
There’s something about the O sound that’s just more…O pronounced I hear when visiting the Ontario area. Although, I think it’s rather us in the Rochester area that mispronounce it as AH more than O…we say PRAHcess and RAHchester rather than PROcess and ROchester. 🤷♂️
Rochester NY here, I definitely hear it in Toronto / Ontario residents in the words “about” and “sorry”, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say it sounds like a-boot and soo-ry. I think that’s an extreme exaggeration. The one word that’s always a dead giveaway for me though is the word “process”.
There’s something about the O sound that’s just more…O pronounced I hear when visiting the Ontario area. Although, I think it’s rather us in the Rochester area that mispronounce it as AH more than O…we say PRAHcess and RAHchester rather than PROcess and ROchester. 🤷♂️
I agree with your asessment of the “sarry” vs “sorry” pronunciation.
Also, for the churchgoers, it was jarring to hear “aymen” instead of “ahmen” in an American basilica.
This is the phrase I use to place people:
“The barbed wire crosses the creek to keep the wolf out.”