Laura M. MacDonald
Laura M. MacDonald was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and has since lived in Montreal, Toronto, and New York.
Her multicultural Canadian experience has left her humorously uncertain about the preferred pronunciation and spelling of certain words.
She is passionate about correcting a common misconception: Canadians do not say "aboot." She explains this through Canadian vowel shifts, where specific vowels change sound before voiceless consonants, producing a vowel unfamiliar to non-Canadians, who then approximate it incorrectly as "oo." Her wit and intelligence shine through even in brief biographical writing.
