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Borrowings Canadian vocabulary has a number of borrowed words which are rarely or never found in other variants of English. CnE is very rich in French borrowings, especially those that end in é (ée), which is pronounced in Canada as diphthong [ei] e.g. guignolée (a custom similar to Slavic carols - « колядки »), brulé (burnt forest or timber), etc. Almost all French borrowings underwent the process of phonetic assimilation; some of them changed their original meaning: e.g. fameuse in French means „famous, remarkable, outstanding‟ while in Canadian English it is a sort of apples which ripen at late autumn. The second largest group of borrowings are words taken over from the languages of Canadian Indians and Eskimos. E.g. tamarak (Indian) – „North American pine‟; parka (Eskimo) – „a jacket with a fur hood‟ and others. In Canadian English there are a number of geographical names of the Indian origin. Even the word Canada was borrowed by the English settlers from the French speakers of Canada, who, in their turn, had taken it over from the language of Iroquois. The French word “Canada‟ originated from the Iroquois „Canata‟ that meant „a community‟ or „a village‟. A certain amount of borrowings in CnE appeared in the language due to the immigrants who came to Canada in the 19 th c., e.g. baidarka from Russian (a kind of boat). § 5. Spelling and dictionaries Canadian English spelling combines British and American rules. Most notably, French-derived words that in American English end with -or and - er, such as color or center , usually retain British spellings, e.g.: colour, rumour and centre . While the United States uses the Anglo-French spelling defense (noun), Canada uses the British spelling defence. Canadian and American variants differ from British in the spelling of such nouns as curb and tire, which in British English are spelled as kerb and tyre . 153 Words such as realize and paralyze are usually spelled with -ize or -yze like in American English rather than with - ise or -yse. Some nouns take -ice while matching verbs ending in -ise – for example, practice is a noun and practise is a verb. Canadian spelling sometimes retains the British practice of doubling consonant when adding suffixes to words even when the final syllable (before the suffix) is not stressed. Compare Canadian (and British) travelled, counselling , and controllable (always doubled in British, sometimes in Canadian) to American traveled, counseling, and controllable (only doubled when stressed). жүктеу/скачать 1,38 Mb. Достарыңызбен бөлісу:
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