Canadian English

English Proper noun The variety of the English language used in Canada. from 1857 en CanE Canuck<q:slang> CE en-Can 1857, Rev. A.C. Geikie, “Canadian English”, in Canadian Journal, v 2, n 11 (September), pp 344–55, reprinted in Elaine Gold and Janice McAlpine eds. (2010), Canadian English: A Linguistic Reader, Strathy Language Unit Occasional Paper n 6, Kingston: Queen’s University: [p 49] Not so, however, is it with the modern refinements of our Canadian English. In referring to such a feat here, it would be said, not that he dived, but that he dove. [p 52] These and a thousand other examples which might be produced, fully justify the use of the term “Canadian English,” as expressive of a corrupt dialect growing up amongst our population, and gradually finding access to our periodical literature, until it threatens to produce a language as unlike our noble mother tongue as the negro patua, or the Chinese pidgeon English. Related terms en Aboriginal English African English African-American English African American Vernacular English American English Amerindian English Anglo-Manx Australian Aboriginal English Australian English Bahamian English Bajan English Bangladeshi English Barbadian English Belizean English Bermudian English British English Brunei English Cameroonian English Caribbean English Ceylonese English Channel Island English Chinese English Chinglish English English Engrish European English Falkland Islands English Gibraltarian English Guyanese English Hiberno-English Hong Kong English Hutterite English Indian English Irish English Jamaican English Janglish Japanese English Japanese Engrish Japanglish Japlish Jewish English Kenyan English Konglish Korean English Liberian English Malawian English Malaysian English Maltese English Manx English Mennonite English Middle English Namibian English Namlish Nepali English New English Newfinese Newfoundland English New Zealand English Nigerian English North American English Northern Irish English Old English Pakistani English Pennsylvania Dutch English Pennsylvania German English Philippine English Scottish English Singapore English South African English Sri Lankan English Standard English Trinidadian English Ugandan English Ulster English Welsh English Yeshiva English Yeshivish Translations English language as used in Canada Cherokee: chr ᎨᎾᏓ ᎩᎵᏏ Polish: pl dialekt kanadyjski języka angielskiego m References Anagrams en aaacdeghiilnnns English-Canadian en Canada Dialects English