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- noun Plural form of
Canadianism .
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Examples
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So I never felt like I compromised on that, and my publisher hasn't expressed an issue with it, other than some "Canadianisms" creeping into SC.
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It'll explain all those homegrown Canadianisms that baffle Americans.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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What a fabulous opportunity for me to outline some of my very favourite Canadianisms:
Ca-Na-Da! 2004
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What a fabulous opportunity for me to outline some of my very favourite Canadianisms:
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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The American flat a has swept the whole country, and American slang is everywhere used; turn to any essay on Canadianisms, 15 and you will find that nine-tenths of them are simply Americanisms.
Chapter 12. The Future of the Language. 2. English or American? Henry Louis 1921
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It is the day of larger ideas; little Canadianisms and such things will not do now.
Imperialism 1906
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A good dictionary covering Canadian English is the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, of which a second edition is now being prepared.
World Hum 2009
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Apologies if there are any Canadianisms in here, but the dictionary on word is set to Canadian, and I changed as many as I could but some may have slipped under the net.
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It is thus closer in conception to the Dictionary of American English (DAE) than to the Dictionary of Americanisms (DA), while it is closest in scope and format to A Dictionary of Canadianisms (DC).
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While I have the Dictionary of Canadianisms to hand,
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