What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.

Traces the making of Canadian English, both as concept and global variety, throughout the twentieth century to the present.

A study of the spoken language of school students and their parents across Canada.

This publication contains approximately one thousand terms taken from relevant sources available in the field. These terms were documented in the main constitutional decisions as well as in other works, the titles of which are listed at the end of this publication.