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English language. 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 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). [6]
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
British and other Commonwealth English use the ending -logue while American English commonly uses the ending -log for words like analog (ue), catalog (ue), dialog (ue), homolog (ue), etc., etymologically derived from Greek -λόγος -logos ("one who speaks (in a certain manner)").
Meanings common to British and American English. American English meanings. backside (n.) posterior, buttocks. (as two words, back side) rear of anything [11][12][13][14] banger (n.) a sausage, as in "bangers and mash". an old motor car in a state of disrepair (US: beater or jalopy) a type of firework.
North American English is the most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in the United States and Canada.Because of their related histories and cultures, [2] plus the similarities between the pronunciations (accents), vocabulary, and grammar of American English and Canadian English, the two spoken varieties are often grouped together under a single category.
An American would not say two dollars twenty. On the other hand, in BrE, two-twenty or two pounds twenty would be most common. It is more common to hear a British-English speaker say one thousand two hundred dollars than a thousand and two hundred dollars, although the latter construct is common in AmE.
Canadian raising (also sometimes known as English diphthong raising[1]) is an allophonic rule of phonology in many varieties of North American English that changes the pronunciation of diphthongs with open-vowel starting points. Most commonly, the shift affects / aɪ / ⓘ or / aʊ / ⓘ, or both, when they are pronounced before voiceless ...
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. Penguin Canadian Dictionary ISBN 0773050078.