Chris O'Neill wrote:
>
> On 8 Sep 2000, at 1:05, Charles Geilfuss wrote:
>
> > The Canadian conection may have come from your time in SC particularly if
> > hung out with any native Charlestonians. It has to do with the way we
> > pronounce the "ou" sound (house, out, about)which is very similar to the
> > Canadian accent. I've been asked that same question many times.
>
> Not to perpetuate yet-another-off-topic-discussion, but which Canajun
> accent wudja be talkin' 'bout??? There's a number of them:
>
> 6. Albertan Canajun: Who's a redneck?!?!?
Redneck family tree
Many many years ago
when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow
who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
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