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Canadian English

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Canadian English

The variety of the English language used in Canada. [from 1857]

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Aboriginal north further First Nations and Inuit people from Northern Canada speak a version of Canadian English influenced by the phonology of their first languages. Source: Internet

An overview of diachronic work on Canadian English, or diachronically-relevant work, is Dollinger (2012). Source: Internet

Canadian English often has raising in both the word set (including words like height, life, psych, type, etc.) and word set (clout, house, south, scout, etc.), but most dialects in the United States have raising only in the word set. Source: Internet

Canadian rule books use the terms goal area and dead line instead of end zone and end line respectively, but the latter terms are the more common in colloquial Canadian English. Source: Internet

Charles Boberg, "Sounding Canadian from Coast to Coast: Regional accents in Canadian English." Source: Internet

Due to historical and cultural factors, Canadian English and American English retain numerous distinctions from each other, with the differences being most noticeable in the two languages' written forms. Source: Internet

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