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List of Canadian English dictionaries: Canadian Oxford Dictionary ISBN 0195418166; Collins Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0007337523; A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles ISBN 0771519761; Gage Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0771519818; Houghton Mifflin Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0395296544; ITP Nelson Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0176065911
Overall, First Nations Canada English dialects rest between language loss and language revitalization. British Columbia has the greatest linguistic diversity, as it is home to about half of the Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. Most of the languages spoken in the province are endangered due to the small number of speakers.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary is a dictionary of Canadian English. First published by Oxford University Press Canada in 1998, it became a well-known reference for Canadian English. The second edition, published in 2004, contains about 300,000 entries, including about 2,200 true Canadianisms .
Standard Canadian English is the largely homogeneous variety of Canadian English that is spoken particularly across Ontario and Western Canada, as well as throughout Canada among urban middle-class speakers from English-speaking families, [1] excluding the regional dialects of Atlantic Canadian English.
In Webster's dictionary, dialogue is given first, and Chambers also indicates dialog is less used in North America. [10] catalogue vs catalog: Webster's treats this case differently, as does Chambers [11] —catalog is the preferred spelling in American English. glamour vs glamor: The spelling glamour is
In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book [65] spelled most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting that, although the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, the choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of ...
A sweet carbonated beverage is commonly referred to as a "pop" in many parts of Canada, but in Montreal, it is a "soda" or "soft drink." [9] A straight translation of the French liqueur douce. A formation - this word in English would normally mean a routine stance used in a professional formation. (i.e. The men stood in formation).
The Atlas of North American English (2006) revealed many of the sound changes active within Atlantic Canadian English, including the fronting of PALM in the START sequence (/ ɑːr /) and a mild Canadian raising, but notably a lack of the Canadian Shift of the short front vowels that exists in the rest of English-speaking Canada.