{"id":2530,"date":"2010-01-27T13:28:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2010-01-27T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:34:03","slug":"welcome-to-canada-this-is-our-variant-of-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/welcome-to-canada-this-is-our-variant-of-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Canada . . . this is our variant of English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sherrygrammarian.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/25\/how-to-speak-canadian\/\" target=\"_blank\">SherryGrammarian<\/a> would like to extend a welcome to all the soon-to-be-arriving Winter Olympics visitors and offers some explanations about the variant of English spoken in (parts of) Canada:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Like the country itself, Canadian English suffers from a bit of an identity crisis: Do we speak the tongue of our British heritage? Or do we employ the vernacular of our closest geographical and cultural neighbour, the United States?<\/p>\n<p>And in quintessentially Canadian fashion, we\u2019ve come up with an offend-no-one resolution: a little deference, a little defiance. Canadian English is the bastard child of a queen and a cowboy.<\/p>\n<p>We honour the monarchy by minding our p\u2019s and q\u2019s, and in using u\u2019s in words like \u201clabour\u201d and \u201cflavour.\u201d In Canada, you enter the \u201ccentre\u201d and catch a feature at the \u201ctheatre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last letter of the alphabet retains its British pronunciation yet appears American in words like \u201corganize\u201d and \u201crealize\u201d &mdash; but we draw the line at calling the bearded Texas rock band \u201cZedZed Top,\u201d and for that we will not apologize.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>And (Americans, take note), \u201crout\u201d is what my hockey team does to your hockey team. \u201cRoute\u201d &mdash; pronounced <em>root<\/em> &mdash; is the path to the nearest donut shop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SherryGrammarian would like to extend a welcome to all the soon-to-be-arriving Winter Olympics visitors and offers some explanations about the variant of English spoken in (parts of) Canada: Like the country itself, Canadian English suffers from a bit of an identity crisis: Do we speak the tongue of our British heritage? Or do we employ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[284,400],"class_list":["post-2530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-humour","tag-hockey","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-EO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}