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Introduction Canadian English, for all its speakers, is an under-described variety of English. In popular dialectological literature it is often given little acknowledgement as a distinct and homogeneous variety, save for a paragraph or two dedicated to oddities of Canadian spelling and the fading use of British-sounding lexical items like chesterfield , serviette , and zed .
Canadian English
Distribution of the English language in different countries of the world The regional accents of English speakers show great variation across the areas where English is spoken as a first language. This article provides an overview of the many identifiable variations in pronunciation , usually deriving from the phoneme inventory of the local dialect , of the local variety of Standard English between various populations of native English speakers.
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English language prevalence in the United States.
American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
New England English refers to the dialects of English spoken in the New England area.
New England English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boston English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boston English redirects here. For the school see English High School of Boston . The Boston dialect is the dialect characteristic of English spoken in the city of Boston and much of eastern Massachusetts .
General American ( GA ), also known as Standard American English ( SAE ), is a major accent of American English .
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The merger of pin and pen in Southern American English.
Southern American English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old Virginia accent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Old Virginia accent is one that is primarily heard in the Tidewater and Piedmont regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia .
English is the primary language spoken throughout Australia. Australian English ( AusE , AuE , AusEng , en-AU [ 1 ] ) is a major variety of the English language and is used throughout Australia . Despite being given no official status in the Constitution , English is Australia's de facto official language and is the first language of, and is used exclusively by, the vast majority of the population.
Australian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canadian English ( CanE , CE , en-CA [ 1 ] ) is the variety of English spoken in Canada . English is the first language , or "mother tongue", of approximately 24 million Canadians (77%), and more than 28 million (86%) are fluent in the language. [ 2 ] 82% of Canadians outside Quebec speak English natively, but within Quebec the figure drops to just 7.7% as most residents are native speakers of Quebec French . [ 3 ] Canadian English contains elements of British English and American English in its vocabulary, as well as many distinctive Canadianisms.
Canadian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West/Central Canadian English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The West – Central Canadian English dialect is one of the largest and most homogeneous dialect areas in North America , ranging from Ontario , through the Prairie Provinces to British Columbia . [ citation needed ] It forms a dialect continuum with the accent in the Western United States , and borders the Canadian North , and U.S.Canadian Maritime English or Maritimer English is a dialect of English spoken in the Maritime provinces of Canada .
Maritimer English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newfoundland English is a name for several accents and dialects thereof the English found in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador .
Newfoundland English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Received Pronunciation ( RP ), also called the Queen's (or King's ) English , [ 1 ] is the standard accent of Standard English in Great Britain, with a relationship to regional accents similar to the relationship in other European languages between their standard varieties and their regional forms. [ 2 ] RP is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as "the standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England", [ 3 ] although some have argued that it can be heard from native speakers throughout England and Wales [ 4 ] [ 5 ] and can even be heard amongst the upper class in Scotland.
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British English (or BrEn , BrE , BE , en-UK or en-GB [ 1 ] ), is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere. [ 2 ] The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English "as spoken or written in the British Isles; esp[ecially] the forms of English usual in Great Britain", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the "English language as spoken and written in Ireland". [ 3 ] There are slight regional variations in formal written English in the United Kingdom . For example, although the words wee and little are interchangeable in some contexts, wee (as an adjective) is almost exclusively written by some people from some parts of northern Britain (and especially Scotland ) or from Northern Ireland , whereas in Southern England and Wales , little is used predominantly.