A public service announcement courtesy of ‘Corner Gas’ creator and star Brent Butt: it’s pronounced ‘Get Oat.’

Yes, fresh off Jordan Peele’s Best Original Screenplay win at the Oscars for ‘Get Out,’ Butt was kind enough to explain to his American audience just how Canadians really pronounce “out”.

“Dear American friends,” he started. “Here in Canada we don’t pronounce ‘out’ like ‘oot’.  We pronounce it properly, as ‘oat’. Example: ‘Did you see that movie ‘Get Oat’?’ ‘No, what’s it aboat?’”

Dear American friends:
Here in Canada we don’t pronounce “out” like “oot”. We pronounce it properly, as “oat”.
Example: “Did you see that movie ‘Get Oat’?”
“No, what’s it aboat?”

— Brent Butt (@BrentButt) March 5, 2018

Mind-blowing stuff!

The comedian’s comment started a chain reaction of people chiming in about how they pronounce “out” or how they’ve heard it pronounced across Canada.

“Owt and abowt is how I pronounce it,” tweeted one fan.

Owt and abowt is how I pronounce it.

— Alex (@lemonaderinds) March 5, 2018

“That's a pretty strong Maritime inflection,” said another.

That's a pretty strong Maritime inflection, my Nova Scotian commercial fishermen relatives were often "oat in a boat".

— Dave Langille (@cdnusboy) March 5, 2018

“Seems like more of an Ontario thing,” tweeted yet another fan.

Seems like more of an Ontario thing. I hear @charlesadler using that pronunciation a lot.

— JohnnyHow (@johnnyhow) March 5, 2018

Of course, there were those who insisted they pronounce “out” the right way.

I'm Canadian and I say it like out lol

— @$Ht3N ???? (@LyteRaynbowz) March 5, 2018

Perhaps in your region. I say "out" like... "out". I am from NS but lived all over Canada, including Nunavut, now living in BC and have worked hard to pronounce words without a dialect.

— Robert Billard (@robert_billard) March 6, 2018

Consensus? There doesn’t seem to be any.