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600: 392: 331:, they are just as common in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media. The list of divergent words becomes longer if considering regional Canadian dialects, especially as spoken in the 303:(1775–1783) have had a large influence on Canadian English from its early roots. Some terms in North American English are used almost exclusively in Canada and the United States (for example, the terms 280:, the two spoken varieties are often grouped together under a single category. Canadians are generally tolerant of both British and American spellings, with British spellings of certain words (e.g., 370:
mixed together in the 17th and 18th centuries. These were developed, built upon, and blended together as new waves of immigration, and migration across the North American continent, developed new
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Longmore, Paul K. (2007). "'Good English without Idiom or Tone': The Colonial Origins of American Speech". The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. MIT. 37 (4): 513–542.
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A majority of North American English (for example, in contrast to British English) includes phonological features that concern consonants, such as
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pronounced , not ), as well as features that concern vowel sounds, such as various vowel mergers before
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in new areas, and as these ways of speaking merged with and assimilated to the greater American
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Mid-Atlantic Back Vowel Shift / Variable non-rhoticity / Canadian raising / Northeastern /-ɒr-/
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Below, several major North American English accents are defined by particular characteristics:
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Variable non-rhoticity / Canadian raising / Father-bother distinction / Northeastern /-ɒr-/
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Mid-Atlantic Back Vowel Shift / L-vocalization / Northeastern /-ɒr-/ / Merry–Murray merger
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Most generalized variety of the English language as spoken in United States and Canada
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among nearly half, while both are completed among virtually all Canadians), and
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Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English
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Mid-Atlantic Back Vowel Shift / Variable non-rhoticity / L-vocalization /
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Chambers, J.K. (1998). "Canadian English: 250 Years in the Making," in
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List of words having different meanings in British and American English
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Chambers, J.K. (1998). "Canadian English: 250 Years in the Making".
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International English: A Guide to the Varieties of Standard English
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Language in the Inner City: Studies in Black English Vernacular
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The Canadian Press Stylebook: A Guide for Writers and Editors,
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List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom
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For the regional dialect in the northern United States, see
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where significant pockets of British culture still remain.
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M.H. Scargill. (1957). "Sources of Canadian English",
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Toronto: The Canadian Press. 344:different accents within the regions 2154:The Atlas of North American English 1266:/ Canadian Raising / L-vocalization 957: 907: 736:African-American Vernacular English 706: 690:The Atlas of North American English 579:The Atlas of North American English 342:There are a considerable number of 13: 1502:/ Southern Vowel Shift / Variable 1262:/ Southern Vowel Shift / Variable 14: 3346: 1906:. 2 November 2016. 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