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Canadian English

Canadian English
The variety of the English language used in Canada.

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: . . .


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