Well, you are supposed to write about the *new* trends in Canadian English. Not the history of CE. I think that the Canadian Shift would probably be your best bet--it is a very recent innovation, and thus is one of the few features of CE that

So what's your definition of American English (or North American English, as some prefer)? I would probably define it mostly by its phonology. It would be pretty hard to define. Or why not just say, any dialect of English spoken in North

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

On Thursday, in article Thanks for the informative and entertaining repiles. I suspect that no one would have evolved into noone by now if ... puntuation/accents available we could have resolved the issue with an umlaut or somesuch. Or what about

Bill Bonde ( ``And the Lamb lies down on Broadway'' ) typed thus: I'm pretty sure that 'proper' French has a Paris accent, although certainly people around the country have their own regional ways of speaking. Didn't

Isabelle Cecchini typed thus: Claire Rayner, novelist and agony aunt. http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/crayner.html Before the Google days, I suppose that was the kind of titbit of ... trying to pass off as English. That, and the proper

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Areff biomed: In Australian English, and I think in many ... doesn't seem to be phonemic in most varieties of AmE. The distinction in BrE, or at least its southern versions, is also chiefly a matter of length, but in "Mary"

. There's Yorkshire "tha", as in If tha knows nowt, say ... leek purrin' up ere then wang it ( http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/ ). Hmmm. "tha's gor a bit er" seems odd. Why not "...bir er...", butit's

I know that I can't tell the difference (by ear, ... dialect of English differentiates between /i/ and /I/ before /N/. You gotta be kidding. "Tin" and "teen" are pronounced quite differently from each other, and the