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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • ButWhatDoesItAllMean
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    24 days ago

    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. 🤷‍♂️



  • Thanks for your response! I’m also in my forties and this is me when trying to thread the needle:

    The family member who gifted me the sewing machine is the one who dropped it off at the shop to get serviced, and the service tech commented that they much prefer the older Singer machines, and seemed pleased to breathe some life back into this old one (which I will from now on refer to as Ol’ Bessie).

    That’s a great point as far as content on the machine…there’s not much out there at all. I don’t immediately see a speed setting, and there was nothing in the manual mentioning it but I can take a further look. I may just keep an eye out on those sales at Joann and see. If the prices get low enough to be a steal I might just pick one up. While I love the idea of keeping a retro machine going I’m also at the age where modern conveniences have some merit! 😆

    Thanks about the bench cushion!! There’s another fan of it as well…