Remember the [The] Home Depot logo thing? Well, look at the difference between the logos for Bravo in the U.S. (left) and Bravo in Canada (right):
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Why do we exclaim in Canada, but not in the U.S.?
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And… why does Canada have a
And… why does Canada have a droopier ‘r’?
Maybe it’s the upside down
Maybe it’s the upside down exclamation mark of Spanish and a desire not to alienate the large number of US Spanish speakers?
We exclaim because it took so
We exclaim because it took so damn long to get decent cable TV. And at my age, I have nothing to say about droopy r’s - except I got one.
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