Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada - Routledge Library Editions. The English Language

Orkin, Mark M.

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Publisher's Synopsis

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? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language?

Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada - its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English - how it came to sound the way it does - and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781138910423
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	25 Jun 2015
DEWEY:	427.971
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	290
Weight:	566g
Height:	234mm
Width:	156mm
Spine width:	18mm