Showing posts with label Canadian English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canadian English. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 06, 2010

Snapshot of US/Canadian English

I'm a little alarmed to see that I haven't posted yet on this project, on differences between Canadian and US English.

This is a very interesting project by Claire Bowern and Alan Munn. One of the big innovations is that they
are making recordings over the internet. (You need a mic on your computer to do it — as they point out, if you can use Skype, you can do this.)

Especially Wisconsin readers would be good to have, I imagine, given the popular perception that Wisconsinites sound 'Canadian'. Mr. V says, do it!