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A new survey of Canadian English shows what has changed in 50 years

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A new survey of Canadian English shows what has changed in 50 years
Source: Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories

Over the past 50 years, Canadian English has become more uniform across regions and has adopted many American terms and pronunciations, while the use of Canadian spellings has gained in popularity. These are the key results of a large-scale study by McGill researchers to update t

Over the past 50 years, Canadian English has become more uniform across regions and has adopted many American terms and pronunciations, while the use of Canadian spellings has gained in popularity. These are the key results of a large-scale study by McGill researchers to update the Survey of Canadian English, initially done in 1972.

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