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The term "Canadian French" was formerly used to refer specifically to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada descended from it. [6] This is presumably because Canada and Acadia were distinct parts of New France, and also of British North America, until 1867. The term is no longer usually deemed to exclude ...
The official name of Quebec City (used by both the federal and provincial governments) is Québec, with an acute accent, in both official languages of Canada (Canadian English and Canadian French). In English, the acute accent differentiates between the official name of the city named Québec , and the constitutional name of the province named ...
Some Canadians pronounce predecessor as /ˈpridəsɛsər/ and asphalt as /ˈæʃfɒlt/. [citation needed] The word room is pronounced /rum/ or /rʊm/. Many anglophone Montrealers pronounced French names with a Quebec accent: Trois-Rivières [tʁ̥wɑʁiˈvjæːʁ] or [tʁ̥wɑʁiˈvjaɛ̯ʁ]. The pour-poor merger is less common than in GenAm.
Canada goose: bernache du Canada poudrerie / rafale de (neige) blowing snow rafale de (neige) poudreuse pruche Eastern hemlock tsuga du Canada raquetteur snowshoer: celui qui fait des raquettes souffleuse snowblower chasse-neige In Quebec, un chasse-neige is a snowplow though the term charrue is mainly used for snow plow. suisse eastern chipmunk
[1] /a/ is not diphthongized, but some speakers pronounce it [æ] if it is in a closed syllable or an unstressed open syllable, [2] as in French of France. The pronunciation in final open syllables is always phonemically /ɑ/, but it is phonetically [ɑ] or [ɔ] (Canada [kanadɑ] ⓘ or [kanadɔ] ⓘ), the latter being informal.
Quebec English encompasses the English dialects (both native and non-native) of the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec. [2] There are few distinctive phonological features and very few restricted lexical features common among English-speaking Quebecers .
La plupart du monde sont tannés des taxes. (La plupart du monde est tanné des taxes.) Most people are fed up with taxes. The drop of the double negative (a feature observed throughout Francophonie) is accompanied by a change of word order(1), and (2)postcliticisation of direct pronouns (3)along with non-standard liaisons to avoid vowel hiatus:
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.