Canadian English varies only a little across most of the continent. The Canadian west was not much settled by Europeans until the late s, when land incentives were given to Anglo-Canadians from Ontario and to immigrants from Britain and some other countries for example, Ukraine, from where immigrants began arriving in Canada in There are more distinctions in the Atlantic coast provinces, but especially in Newfoundland, which had been settled by Irish English-speakers and was not officially a province of Canada until Today, one-fifth of Canadians have a mother tongue other than English or French — nearly as many as have French as their mother tongue.
And yet the basic character of Canadian English still appears like a household of Anglophile Americans, with bits from other cultures mainly in the kitchen, a few traces of the indigenous cultures who used to be the only occupants, and some influence from the French roommate.
Canadian spelling is, as mentioned, a tug-of-war between the British and the Americans — jail but centre, analyze but colour. Because Canada is bilingual, French may also have an effect. Also possibly influenced by French is the Canadian eh.
French Canadians use hein also colloquially spelled han in most of the same kinds of places English Canadians use eh , and they use it more. The eh of Canadian English is not a Canadian invention; it is used in England and elsewhere, but it is used in more different ways in Canada, notably as an emphatic and to maintain conversational involvement: No kidding, eh ; Thanks, eh ; So I was going to the store, eh, and this guy cut me off. Nearly one-fifth of Canadians have French as their mother tongue Credit: Alamy.
The Canadian accent — or accents, since there is a bit of variation across the country and much more in Newfoundland and a larger amount across socioeconomic levels — has a few signal features, and they, too, trace partly to the US and partly to Britain.
This feature is present across much but not all of Canada. It may be influenced by Scottish English many British emigres were Scots , or it may be a relic of Shakespeare-era pronunciation. This shift is still in progress.
These changes seem to have originated in Canada, though similar patterns can be seen in some parts of the US. The war of finished without winners in , the British being occupied fighting Napoleon in the same moment. You're not going to believe this, sir, but the insignia is of the Caldwell Rangers, a Canadian regiment that last fought in the war of Well, we were taking some tea over to Grandpa O'Shaughnessy Grandpa O'Shaughnessy has drunk nothing You're in a historic room, ladies and gentlemen, from the walls of which the heroes of another people's war, the war of , are looking at us.
In the war of he commanded the right wing army of the Russian Army, which he commanded in the First and Second battle of Polotsk. For almost years in the war of Francis Scott Key In that year he became president of the Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company in Salem and under his leadership the Company prospered despite difficult conditions due to the war of and other political problems.
After the war of , the U. And then they carved new slave plantations and family farms out of the forests. Drawing notes will be easy to remember and fun, for example lets say if you have to remember the war of then draw some things you know about it. Guerra de , entonces dibuja algunas cosas que sepas de ella. It is on the crossroads of the Sovetskaya and Suvorova streets, just a few minutes' walk from the Government Palace, the monument to the war of and the Marc Chagall Museum.
Queda en el cruce de las calles Sovetskaya y Suvorova, a pocos minutos del Palacio del Gobierno, el monumento de la guerra de y el museo Marc Chagall. Canada has always faced several obstacles in defining itself to the outside world. Canadian English was partly shaped by early immigrants from the UK and Ireland, but it was affected much more by the arrival of about 45, loyalists to the British crown during the American Revolutionary War.
By the outbreak of the War of a few decades later, a significant part of the population of Ontario — which had about , inhabitants — were of US extraction. The result, especially west of Quebec, was an accent lightly shaped by British English, but much more so by 18th Century colonial American English. Since Ontarians were largely responsible for settling Western Canada in the following decades, their Americanised accent spread across the country and eventually became the de facto accent for the majority of Canadians.
But if a person travels into western Canada — into Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia — the accent becomes more American-sounding and locally indistinguishable. The time depth and the population density being very sparse, those encourage widespread leveling and homogeneity.
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