Authors' Note: This is a mostly true story.
The Canadian internist in question had moved south to undertake a fellowship at an American medical school.. As an introduction to potential staff mentors, he was asked to prepare a lecture on aspects of gout.
The transcriptionist, a southern woman, was victimized by her unfamiliarity with "Canadian raising", a speech variation altering and shortening the sounds of vowels in words like house, rice and out; this pattern affects the speech of many speakers in the northern US, as well as in Canada.
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