I don’t say “aboot” when I mean “about”. No Cana­dian that I’ve ever known has, in my pres­ence, ever said “aboot”. I don’t know where that per­cep­tion comes from. Yes­ter­day on TV, I heard two com­mon mis­pro­nun­ci­a­tions that have always annoyed me. First I heard some­one pro­nounce “height” as though it has an “H” at the …