‘Canadian Dainty’: The rise and decline of Briticisms in Canada

Legacies of Colonial English: Studies in Transported Dialects

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 224-241

  Chambers, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511486920.010     Document Type: Chapter

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