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Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) [5] encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 ...
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. Canadian English has a mostly uniform ...
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North American English encompasses the English language as spoken in both the United States and Canada.Because of their related histories and cultures, [2] plus the similarities between the pronunciations (accents), vocabulary, and grammar of U.S. English and Canadian English, linguists often group the two together.
Numerous Canadian authors have accumulated international literary awards, [392] including novelist, poet, and literary critic Margaret Atwood, who received two Booker Prizes; [393] Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who has been called the best living writer of short stories in English; [394] and Booker Prize recipient Michael Ondaatje, who wrote the ...
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The term English-speaking Canadian is sometimes used interchangeably with English Canadian. Although many English-speaking Canadians have strong historical roots traceable to England or other parts of the British Isles, English-speaking Canadians have a variety of ethnic backgrounds. They or their ancestors came from various Celtic, European ...
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 .