Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Clarke, Sandra); 2. "Lawless and vulgar innovations": Victorian views of Canadian English (by Chambers, J.K.); 3. Canadian English lexicography (by Gregg, Robert J.); 4. The hobgoblin of Canadian English spelling (by Pratt, T.K.); 5. The planting of Anglo-Irish in Newfoundland (by Kirwin, William J.); 6. The Americanization of Canadian pronunciation: A survey of palatal glide usage (by Clarke, Sandra); 7. African American English in the diaspora: Evidence from oldline Nova Scotians (by Poplack, Shana); 8. A synchronic study of English spoken in Ottawa: Is Canadian English becoming more American? (by Woods, Howard B.); 9. Linguistic symmetries, asymmetries, and border effects within a Canadian/American sample (by Zeller, Christine); 10. A sociolinguistic analysis of Canadian English in Saskatchewan: A look at urban versus rural speakers (by Nylvek, Judith A.); 11. Retracting of /ae/ in Vancouver English (by Esling, John H.); 12. Comparative sociolinguistics of (aw)-fronting (by Hung, Henrietta); 13. Local patterns and markers of speech in Vancouver English (by Wolf, Gaelan Dodds de); 14. Addresses of authors; 15. Index