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Canada: Sault Sainte Marie: SOO-saynt-mə-REE / ˈ s uː s eɪ n t m ə ˈ r iː / Canada: Sechelt: SEE-shelt / ˈ s iː ʃ ɛ l t / Canada: Sheshatshiu: SHEH-hah-shee / ˈ ʃ ɛ h ɑː ʃ iː / Canada: Skidegate: SKID-ih-ghit / ˈ s k ɪ d ɪ ɡ ɪ t / Canada: Stouffville: STOH-vil / ˈ s t oʊ v ɪ l / Canada: Strachan Avenue, Toronto: STRAWN ...
Today, some words from Newfoundland English, such as "b'y" (a form of address), have gained recognition through popular culture in other parts of Canada, particularly in Ontario and eastward. Newfoundland English shares some linguistic features with Bermudian English, likely due to historical connections between the two regions.
Checleset Bay: from the Nuu-chah-nulth language name Cheklesahht, "people of cut on the beach", the local group of Nuu-chah-nulth people, whose band government today is the Kyuquot/Cheklesahht First Nation. Chedakuz Arm (Knewstubb Lake), Carrier language; Cheewat River: from the Nitinaht dialect of Nuu-chah-nulth for "having an island nearby".
A spelling pronunciation is the pronunciation of a word according to its spelling when this differs from a longstanding standard or traditional pronunciation. Words that are spelled with letters that were never pronounced or that were not pronounced for many generations or even hundreds of years have increasingly been pronounced as written, especially since the arrival of mandatory schooling ...
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.
Lodge Bay is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.It is on the southeast coast of Labrador.Encompassing a population of less than one hundred residents, the community has uniquely evolved from both early European colonization of Labrador, and the inimitable patterns of land and resource use by the migratory Inuit population. [1]
Melinoë is the daughter of Persephone and was fathered by Zeus, [6] who tricked her via "wily plots" by taking the form of Hades, indicating that in the hymn Persephone is already married to Hades. [7]
The Saulteaux are a branch of the Ojibwe Nations within Canada.They are sometimes called the Anihšināpē (Anishinaabe). [1] Saulteaux is a French term meaning 'waters ("eaux") - fall ("sault")', and by extension "People of the rapids/water falls", referring to their former location in the area of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, on the St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) which connects Lake ...