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5 unusual facts about Canadian English


Argyle, Nova Scotia

Argyle is a bilingual community, in which native speakers of English and French each account for about half of the population.

Diagonal pliers

In the United Kingdom and Ireland, diagonal pliers are commonly referred to as snips, and in Australia and Canada they are often referred to as side cutters.

Population of Canadian federal ridings

This is a list of Canada's 308 federal electoral districts (also known as ridings in Canadian English) as defined by the 2003 Representation Order, which came into effect on May 23, 2004.

Quadra Island

Together they are known as the Laich-kwil-tach (historically known as the Euclataws or Yucultas, names more familiar to speakers of British Columbia English).

Recessed light

A recessed light or downlight (also pot light in Canadian English, sometimes can light (for canister light) in American English) is a light fixture that is installed into a hollow opening in a ceiling.


Avast!

Themed voiceovers are also available; these include "Aussie", "Californian", "Canadian", "Pirate Talk" and "Santa Claus".

Catalog merchant

A catalog merchant (catalogue merchant in British and Canadian English) is a form of retailing.

Regional Italian

A significant number of endangered dialects have survived, they've been passed on generationally to varying degrees, and have kept innumerable archaisms as well as have adopted linguistic features and lexical borrowings from American English, Canadian English, Canadian French, and Latin American Spanish, respective to the milieu of the individual community in question.

Visible minority

The qualifier "visible" is important in the Canadian context where political divisions have traditionally been determined by language (English vs. French) and religion (Catholics vs. Protestants) — "invisible" traits.


see also

Atkey

Mel Atkey (born 1958), Canadian-English musical theatre composer and lyricist

Big Brother in Canada

Big Brother Canada the first Canadian English language incarnation of the franchise, third overall.

BITE

BiteTV, a Canadian English language category 2 digital cable specialty channel

Discovery Health

Twist TV, a Canadian English language digital cable channel on human medical topics formerly known as Discovery Health

Giller

The Scotiabank Giller Prize, an annual Canadian English language literary award named in memory of Doris Giller

Janet McNaughton

McNaughton has been awarded the Violet Downey National Chapter of the IODE Book Award for the best Canadian English Language Children's Book, the Ann Conner Brimer Award for Children's Literature in Atlantic Canada, and the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.