Canadian English
English
Etymology
1857 (Canada), Canadian + English.
Proper noun
- The variety of the English language used in Canada.
- 1857, Rev. A.C. Geikie, “Canadian English”, in Canadian Journal, v 2, pp 344–55, quoted in John Russell Bartlet, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, p 129:
- Not so, however, is it with the modern refinements of our Canadian English. In referring to such a fact here, it would be said, not that he dived, but that he dove. Even Longfellow makes use of this — so harsh and unfamiliar to English ears — in the musical measures of his Hiawatha: . . .
- 1857, Rev. A.C. Geikie, “Canadian English”, in Canadian Journal, v 2, pp 344–55, quoted in John Russell Bartlet, Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States, p 129: