20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary (Patreon)

Published:

2018-05-17 21:43:02

Imported:

2023-02

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Australians and Canadian English don’t sound much alike, but they have one big similarity: they’re both national varieties that tend to get overshadowed by their more famous siblings.

In this episode of Lingthusiasm, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch use Lynne Murphy’s new book The Prodigal Tongue as a guide to the sometimes prickly relationship between the globally dominant British and American varieties of English, give a mini history of English in our own countries, and discuss our national quests to find space between and around US and UK nationlects.

On the way, we ask the big, country-dividing questions like, is soup more likely to be brothy or puréed? Does “please” make a request ruder or more polite? What’s a prototypical bacon? Where on your face is a frown?

To see this episode's shownotes, go to https://lingthusiasm.com/post/173999864106/lingthusiasm-episode-20-speaking-canadian-and

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20: Speaking Canadian and Australian English in a British-American binary by Lingthusiasm

Australian and Canadian English don't sound much alike, but they have one big similarity: they're both national varieties that tend to get overshadowed by their more famous siblings.