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[Electronic Music Continues] Speech, language, communications technology, and the literary arts in a changing world. [Electronic Music Continues] Fast forward. [Electronic Music Ends]","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=16.0,35.365"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJars Balan:\u003c/strong\u003e Have you ever had the experience, traveling in Britain or the United States, of being told by someone that you speak English with an accent? Have you ever noticed how people in the Maritimes have different expressions and pronunciations from those heard in Saskatchewan or in British Columbia?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=35.365,52.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJars Balan:\u003c/strong\u003e On this edition of VoicePrint, we look at the English spoken in Canada, its history, its unique features, and its regional variations. And on Literary Supplement, we feature a fascinating talk about the Canadian literary movement in the 1960s with poet and novelist Margaret Atwood. So listen in as we examine what Charlie Farquharson calls \"Canadjian English,\" and what is popularly referred to as CanLit.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=52.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eMale Voice:\u003c/strong\u003e Word Works.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=80.0,82.113"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDon Harron:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, my God, you'll be beginning to wonder, how did Canada ever get started for to get settled by your permanents?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=82.113,89.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDon Harron:\u003c/strong\u003e I know there was something fishy about the start of this country, but well, sir, leave it to beaver for to settle down Canada. Now this damn animal is really the mother of our country on account of the hair on its back being so desecrative.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=89.0,102.425"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eDon Harron:\u003c/strong\u003e Jack Carter took a couple of skins back along with his scurfy, and pretty soon all your high mucky muck parasites wanted to get felt. That's how your beaver soon become number one in your hat parade. And that's why your simple minded government people has chose the beaver as our national ember.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=102.425,119.555"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Altman:\u003c/strong\u003e Charlie Farquharson may not know much about the history of the beaver, but his creator, Don Herron, does know something about the English that is spoken in rural Ontario. That Charlie's speech is a gross parody of a sub dialect of Canadian English is no doubt obvious to most of his Canadian fans. Consciously or not, they recognize some of their own speech habits in his fractured and punny English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=119.555,145.145"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Altman:\u003c/strong\u003e But as Canadians, we are probably most conscious of the uniqueness of our English when we travel to Britain or the United States. There, we soon realize that many of our pronunciations and expressions immediately identify us as foreigners, if not Canucks.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=145.145,161.665"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Altman:\u003c/strong\u003e On the most obvious level, we have different words for some objects, such as pop for soda, and Chesterfield for sofa, although the latter distinction may be fading. We also have spelling differences that distinguish us from both the British and the Americans.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=161.665,179.425"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eAnna Altman:\u003c/strong\u003e We asked Dr. Jack Chambers of the University of Toronto to describe for us some of the unique features of our speech, and to explain the historical background to Canadian English. VoicePrint researcher Jars Balan talked with him in Toronto.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=179.425,194.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJars Balan:\u003c/strong\u003e When did people become conscious that Canadian English was somehow different from American or British English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=194.0,201.115"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e The first literary reference to the distinctness of Canadian English was made in 1857, so 10 years before Confederation, by a Scot named the Reverend A.C. Geikie. And he delivered a paper called Canadian English to the Canada Club, which was a kind of... the governors, the gentry of the day, assembled to talk about how things were going in the colonies. And his paper, called Canadian English, which is, as far as I know, the first reference to the notion of Canadian English as an entity. And he referred to it as a language \"as debased from its glorious mother tongue, as is the Negro Patois,\" he said.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=201.115,248.815"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e So, he was well aware of a difference, a distinctive difference in Canadian... He mentions specifically periodical literature and the language that one hears around one in 1857 as being distinctively different from the English that was spoken by the colonizers, by the mother country.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=248.815,275.395"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e So, that's the first literary reference. Now, as always, things don't get into writing until they've been a fact for a little while. And so I suspect that there had been some discussion informally among the gentry of the day prior to that, about what was happening around them, about the English that was being heard on all sides.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=275.395,300.285"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e And one thing that Geikie was incapable of doing, of course, was making a contrast. And he couldn't say, he wasn't astute enough linguistically to know, apparently, whether he found Canadian English distinctive from American English, from the English south of the border, as well as from British English. But his preoccupation was with the contrast between Canadian English and British English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=300.285,327.235"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e And so whether any of the distinctive differences between Canadian English and American English, which tend to be quite subtle things, whether any of those had developed by 1857, we had no way of knowing. But it definitely was distinctive from the British English of the day by that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=327.235,348.635"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, that's just about right, as a linguist might see it, because the distinctiveness of Canadian English really began with the sort of post-Loyalist influx from the United States. The Revolutionary War in the United States in 1775, as most Canadians know, gave rise to a group of people fleeing from the United States into Canada. Those people were known in Canada as United Empire Loyalists, and they're known in the United States as Tories, an influx of perhaps 40,000 or more into Nova Scotia, mainly from New England.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=348.635,397.275"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e And those New Englanders tended to be highly placed individuals, people of property and people of considerable education, very often educated in the old country. And that's probably where their allegiance to England came from, because of their close contact.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=397.275,415.467"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e So they moved into the Maritimes, and then, that group of United Empire Loyalists in the Maritimes seems largely to have dispersed. Many of them ultimately went back to the old country, did not stay, and did not have the kind of impact that an influx of 40,000 or more people would have had at the time, because they left.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=415.467,441.453"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Also, many of them came down to St. Lawrence and settled in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, which has a distinctively United Empire Loyalist caste. And many of them came on much further into the Great Lakes Basin. But their effect on the speech of Canada was no doubt considerable, because they doubled the population practically, or more than doubled it wherever they settled.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=441.453,471.215"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e But in Ontario, it wasn't so much the United Empire Loyalists, properly speaking, because there's always been a distinction made about whether people came to Canada immediately following the Revolutionary War, or whether they came a few years after that. But the great influx into Ontario was called post-Loyalist, and it was from the United States, and it was in the 1790s and 1810s, in that area, and particularly into the Niagara Peninsula, where my roots happened to be.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=471.215,506.155"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e And there were at least 10,000 of these post-Loyalists moved into the Niagara Peninsula, at the time. And there were virtually no settlements there until they arrived. So, naturally, they made the settlements, made the farms, they set the pattern of the day. And the reason that Canadian English sounds so similar to American English is because of this movement of people after, following the Revolutionary War. So the Canadian English and American English had close interchange at the very beginning of Canadian English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=506.155,544.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJars Balan:\u003c/strong\u003e Is it possible to speak of Canadian English as being a separate dialect, or is it really a branch of American English, a sub-dialect?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=544.0,552.023"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, yeah, I think it's a sub-dialect of American English, which means that you can speak of Canadian English as an entity. I mean, there are enough distinctions because Canadian English has now had well over a century to establish itself and to develop in characteristic ways.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=552.023,572.813"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Canadian English has a number of features which distinguish it from other varieties of American English. It nevertheless is a variety of American English. I mean, that's unavoidable, just as, in a way, just as the English spoken in Wiltshire and Dorset in England is a branch of English English. All the same, it doesn't sound much like Liverpool English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=572.813,597.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJars Balan:\u003c/strong\u003e What is the most striking difference between Canadian English and American English?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=597.0,601.019"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, there are two very, sort of, deep seated distinctions. So if you wanted to distinguish a speaker of North American English to discover whether he's a Canadian speaker or a non-Canadian speaker, I think the very best way in terms of the structure of the language would be to ask him to pronounce pairs of, certain pairs of words, such as the man's name, Paul, right, and the pall which people bear when they go to a funeral.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=601.019,638.369"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e P, A, U, L, and P, A, L, L. If you ask a person to pronounce that, and if he says, as I just said, \"Paul and pall,\" you say, \"Hey, those sound identical.\" And that's exactly right. That's a feature of Canadian English.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=638.369,653.645"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e But in the United States, those two words don't sound identical at all. And the first one, the man's name, Paul, sounds like \"Paul.\" Now, that's a very subtle distinction. You have to be able to hear it. You have to be aware of what the distinction is. But \"Paul,\" the American pronunciation, which I just emphasized more than an American would, has a rounded vowel in it. And you can see the lips rounding when it's pronounced. 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But in the United States, as in England as well, those words are distinguished so that the cot that one sleeps on is pronounced much as I just pronounced it, \"cot.\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=686.0,715.255"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e But the past tense of catch is pronounced \"caught\" with a rounded vowel. And you can, the distinction is, Paul-pall and caught-cot. 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Newfoundland in particular, the entire Atlantic seaboard, is rich in dialect. But Newfoundland is... it has wonderful variety, extraordinary variety from a Canadian or from a North American dialectologist's point of view. And the reason for that is very obvious because the settlement history of Newfoundland goes back centuries, centuries and centuries ago. In fact, the English flag was planted in Newfoundland in 1520, I believe, it was taken as a possession in 1520.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1018.963,1055.097"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, there were only transient settlements there. The fishermen had settlements there in season and then went back home to the west country of England or to Portugal or wherever they had come from for the rest of the year, for the first century or so. But by 1650, Newfoundland was already beginning to be settled and with a long settlement history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1055.097,1085.475"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e What happens is you get distinctive speech growing up. More than that, too, Newfoundland has an interesting settlement history because parts of it were settled by people from the west country, that is, from Dorset and Devon and Cornwall in England. Parts of it were settled, especially in the 1700s, by Irish immigrants who were escaping from the potato famine.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1085.475,1110.285"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e And so you get these two distinctive strains in various parts of the country, then, settling for 300 or 400 years or whatever it is by now, and developing independently of one another as well. So in Newfoundland, the variety is very similar to the kind of linguistic variety that you can find in Europe, that you expect to find in Europe. And the reason is because its settlement history is much, much longer.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1110.285,1138.119"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e But something very similar happens in the Maritime provinces as well, where they have a fairly long settlement history, not as long as Newfoundland, but a fairly long settlement history. And they were settled in various ways. There were a lot of west country settlers there in the original group, because the west country people were the mariners, the sailors from England. And so they naturally got out and put down stakes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1138.119,1168.209"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e Also in the Maritimes, a large influx of Scottish settlers and Irish settlers in the 1800s, which means that the English that was transplanted to that part of Canada had a distinctive sound to start with and has retained some of its distinctiveness in that way. So you get tremendous variety all along the Atlantic seaboard in Canada, just as you do incidentally, along the Atlantic seaboard in the United States.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1168.209,1198.395"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eJack Chambers:\u003c/strong\u003e The most varied speech patterns in all of North America are all along the Atlantic seaboard. And the reason for that is because it's historical. 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We asked resident etymologist Dr. Richard Brown to tell us about the histories of four words that are sure to strike a responsive chord with all Canadians. Hockey, the name Canada, maple, and beaver.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1228.005,1251.925"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Brown:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, when I start seeking Canadiana in vocabulary, what I find is words of long established European origin. And I started out with number one on my list here. \"Hockey\" first occurs in English, 1527, long before North American colonization, let it be noted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1251.925,1275.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Brown:\u003c/strong\u003e Probably comes from Old French \"hoquet\" or \"'oquet\" meaning a bent club or shepherd's crook, which is apparently a diminutive. 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And he told me that the word Canada means \"the huts\" or \"the shacks,\" being one of those odd things, you see, where the European settler takes the native translator or the native welcoming committee member aside and says, \"What do you call him place?\" or something like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1327.475,1362.583"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Brown:\u003c/strong\u003e And the guy says, pointing of course over to a bunch of ratty cabins and so forth, you see, by the side of the river, and the guy says, \"Shacks.\" So they named the country after this editorial remark.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1362.583,1378.755"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Brown:\u003c/strong\u003e Unfortunately, unfortunately, no reputable dictionary seems willing to go along with such a story. Oxford stubbornly says origin unknown, and the rest say something similar. This is a disappointment perhaps.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=1378.755,1396.243"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Brown:\u003c/strong\u003e And the \"maple,\" Old English \"mapul,\" wouldn't you just know, compared it to Old Norse \"mǫpurr,\" a Germanic word. 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Research into this area could potentially yield very interesting results, as in some parts of the country, in Saskatchewan, for example, Anglophone settlers were in a distinct minority. 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In fact, I think they thought it was kind of cute, although they would never have used that word. In fact, they were quite encouraging, but there was no formalization of this process. We had a literary magazine, there again a handful of people were interested and practically ran the whole thing. 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I think some of the things that went on in the period I'm talking about, '69, '70, '71, around there, some of it was a little bit hysterical, and I don't think you need to be hysterical if you have a certain confidence. 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The earliest Canadian poetry in English was produced by United Empire Loyalists, who immigrated to the Maritime provinces after the American Revolution of 1776. The poets of this Loyalist tradition were disappointed Tories like Jonathan Odell and Joseph Stansbury, whose best work consisted of convivial songs and lively political satires, or Puritan evangelists like Henry Alline, who wrote hymns and pious ejaculations.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=2947.0,2983.225"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/165","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTerry Winnick:\u003c/strong\u003e The first poet to attempt to write about the challenges of pioneering in the new land was Oliver Goldsmith, who had the good fortune of being the grandnephew and namesake of the famous 18th century English poet. The Canadian Goldsmith was born in Nova Scotia and lived there most of his life, publishing in 1825 an ambitious descriptive poem written in heroic couplets.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067#t=2983.225,3007.995"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1783/collection_resources/59254/file/134067/transcript/72185/annotation/166","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eTerry Winnick:\u003c/strong\u003e Titled \"The Rising Village,\" the poem sketched the development of an eventually happy and prosperous community of Loyalist settlers in the Acadian wilderness. 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