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Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada

By Mark M. Orkin

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
ISBN
1138910422, 9781138910423
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15324847 bytes)
Series
Routledge Library Editions: The English Language 21
Edition
1
Pages
290\291
Time added
2018-05-06 00:19:45
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Description

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

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