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Tag Archives: Margaret Atwood
Could of/should of and Canadian English
Could of/should of are older than we think: elsewhere in this blog I reported on their occurrence already in 18th-century English. It is also the feature in the Attitudes Survey that calls for the most comments, mostly negative (very negative!) … Continue reading
Snuck in Canadian English?
If snuck is very common in British and American English (see elsewhere on this blog), how about Canadian or other Englishes? I found the following example in Margaret Atwood‘s The Blind Assassin (2000): People snuck off to Stratford or London … Continue reading
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