Canadian English


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Canadian English

n
(Languages) the English language as spoken in Canada
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Cana′dian Eng′lish


n.
the English language in any of the varieties spoken in Canada.
[1855–60]
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Canadian English lecturer Erin Smith said she's been using TED videos in her classrooms for years, and often watches them to learn new things.
Summary: David Roy Woelke, a Canadian English language instructor at King Abdulaziz University, embraced Islam at the World Assembly of Muslim Youth's (WAMY) headquarters here Wednesday.
However, Brown posits, the period before the advent of official multiculturalism was an "era of multiculturalism manque," with little room for Jewish distinctiveness within the dominant Canadian English and French milieus.
"We now talk of 'Englishes' because there is American English, Canadian English and different types of English used in the Caribbean and Africa.
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The anthology Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems (978-1-55458-033-0), from Wilfrid Laurier University Press, edited by Nancy Holmes and introduced by Don McKay, surveys 200 years of Canadian English nature poetry.
When Montreal youth and adults scan the shelves of their school and public libraries' children's and young adult sections, they likely see maple leaf symbols stuck on spines of books written by Canadian English authors and fleur-de-lys symbols affixed to those of titles penned by Quebec French authors.

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