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Canadian English
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the kind of English spoken in Canada by English-speaking Canadians.
Quotations
1857
[Title] "Canadian English" [by] Rev. A. C. Geikie.
1957
Canadian English . . . is a dialect which resembles American English in some respects and British in others, and which includes a great deal that is singularly Canadian.
1964
The purity of Canadian English and French . . . suggests it should be called Canada's Biguttural Commission!