Canadien (was Re: English accent)

[Wilson Gray]

Damned if I know, Mark. I would have spelled it with a lower-case "c"
and italicized it, if I could have been certain that doing the latter
wouldn't have caused my post to be received as gibberish. I agree with
your implication and Larry's assertion that a "Canadien" is a hockey
player who does not necessarily have Canadian French as his mother
tongue.

-Wilson

On 9/19/06, Mark A. Mandel <mamandel at ldc.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> "It would never occur to a Canadien to describe a Frenchman as
> speaking French with a French accent."
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> 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.
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> -- Mark
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