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French settlement influences are prevalent in the Bay d’Espoir and Port au Port Peninsula on the west coast of the island. [10] Newfoundland French was deliberately discouraged by the government of Newfoundland in the public schools during the mid-20th century, and only a small handful of people, who are mainly elderly, still fluently speak ...
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 ...
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.
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]
"People pronounce my name many different ways. Let #KidsForKamala show you how it’s done," she wrote in the original tweet, from May 2016. It's just a short video, less than 20 seconds, but it ...
Schild en vriend: On 18 May 1302, the people of Bruges killed the French occupiers of the city during a nocturnal surprise attack. According to a famous legend, they stormed into the houses where they knew the tenants were forced to board and lodge French troops serving as city guards, roused every male person from his bed and forced him to repeat the challenge schild en vriend (shield and ...
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".