The myth of Canadian English Page 1 The myth of Canadian English JAAN LILLES Despite
the recent publication of a Canadian style guide and The Oxford Canadian Dictionary, a claim …

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 …

This chapter will present a succinct but detailed description of the major features of Standard
Canadian English in comparison to those of both Standard British and Standard American …

An abiding theme in much of the contemporary literature on Canadian English is that it
remains one of the least empirically documented major varieties of English (Allen 1980: 36; …

The Canadian public and beginning linguistics students are the intended audience of this
book. Its purpose is to familiarize Canadians with the special characteristics of their national …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the present context of Canadian English, which
is considered to be something more than some kind of regional variety of the English spoken …

The New World colonies of England each speak distinctive varieties of English. Because
they were colonized at different times, the founders spoke varieties of English appropriate to …

Canadian English claims a rather small number of speakers and spans a relatively brief
history-the term" Canadian English” was first recorded only in 1854. As a dialect it has …

Nowadays, it is obvious to anyone who gives it a moment's thought that standard Canadian
English, as spoken by middle-class people in the inland towns and cities, is a branch of …

The author traces the development of the concept Australian English from the 1940s to the
present time, noting a radical change in both public and individual acceptance of it. He …