Canadian English

== English == === Proper noun === Canadian English The variety of the English language used in Canada. [from 1857] Synonyms: CanE, (slang) Canuck, 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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “Canadian English”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. === Anagrams === English-Canadian