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Canadian English
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Unique for
Vocabulary
Specific expressions
if you're are writing a test
For Canadians, you are being tested
For Americans, you are the test-maker
in the kitchen
Canadians are using ''garburator''
Americans are using ''garbage disposal''
For the housing
Americans are using ''studio apartment''
Canadians are using ''bachelor apartment''
Hockey metaphors
Deking someone out
Stickhandling a problem
Specific words
Toque vs. hat
"May two-four weekend" = Victoria Day weekend
Canadianisms
Poutine
Depanneur
Canadian dictionnary
Bloody ''Ceasar'' vs. bloody ''Mary''
Spelling
Canadian English vs American English
the Name Zed for the letter ''Z''
Colour
instead of
color
Centre
instead of
center
Accent and pronunciation
Canadian raising
oot and about (Shakespeare's era)
Eh!
Not a Canadian Invention
Possibly influenced by Hein! (Quebecers)
Associated with less-educated people
Low back merger
caught and cot (same sound)
Canadian vowel shift
Bet
sounds like
bat
Bat
said further back in the mouth Ex: bath, grass
Bit
sounds like
bet
Loyalists
Drop of r's in pronunciation
Am:
hard
vs. Br:
haad
Changing in their vowels
Am:
W(o)ter
VS Br:
Wa(d)er
Anglophile American
2 Diphthongs
Out in eyes and loud
Higher in ice
Been Influenced by
Indigenous
Linguistic and cultural variety
Kanata (Canada)
French
Treaty of Paris
British
After the war of 1812
European settlers
Ukranians and other immigrants
Loyalists
Flew the American Revolution
The founding English-speaking people of Canada
Scottish
Within British immigration
Team #1 members
Denise Lapointe
Mei Yu
Nadia lotfy
Geneviève Grenier
Hanane Nasereddine
Étienne Charlebois
Dan Jin
Chrystel Toupin
Maha Noseir
Mélyna Alphonse
Maury Pily