Canadien (was Re: English accent)

[Laurence Horn]

>Laurence Horn wrote:
>>>"It would never occur to a Canadien to describe a Frenchman as
>>>speaking French with a French accent."
>>>
>>>By the way, how frequent is this use in English of the French word for
>>>'Canadian' (masculine singular), capitalized according to English
>>>usage, to
>>>mean 'French-Canadian'? I don't think I've ever seen it before.
>>
>>Well, it's certainly used to refer to those French-Canadians who play
>>professional hockey in Montreal, a.k.a. Les Hab(itant)s.   ;-)
>>
>
>But it's also used to refer to Anglophone Canadians, to Americans, and
>even to Finns who play for Les Habs.

Yup, whence my ;-).

LH

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