Canadian raising

English en Q5030868 1: Canadian pronunciation of en out (above) compared with the American pronunciation: en En-ca-out.ogg en En-us-out.ogg en Q5030868-lite and pan-AmE 1: In many dialects of American English, the en high in en high horse has a slightly different vowel quality from the en high in en high school. Noun ~ en Q5030868 en phonology dialectology The phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants. en Q5030868-lite and pan-AmE en phonology dialectology A similar but more restricted phenomenon, found in most dialects of American English, that applies only to /aɪ/, which is realized as [ʌɪ] in certain contexts, especially before underlying unvoiced consonants but with significant speaker-to-speaker variation.