Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada
Published by General Publishing Company Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1970
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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pp. xii, 276. Small 8vo. Publisher's teal cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Extremities well-preserved showing no detectable flaws. Contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; fine and housed in fine, unclipped, dustjacket (now housed in protective mylar cover). Appears unread; as new.
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- Title
- Speaking Canadian English: An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada
- Author
- Orkin, Mark M.
- Publisher
- General Publishing Company Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Publication year
- 1970
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0773600140
- ISBN 13
- 9780773600140
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Seller catalogs
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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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